# dop
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɒp/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒp

### Etymology 1

From Middle English doppe, from Old English *doppa (“dipper”) (compare dīepan), as in Old English dūfedoppa (“pelican”).

#### Noun

dop (plural dops)
* A diving bird.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English doppen, from Old English *doppian (“to dip, dive, plunge”), related to Old English doppettan (“to dip, dip in, immerse”).

#### Verb

dop (third-person singular simple present dops, present participle dopping, simple past and past participle dopped)
* (South Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)
    I dopped my exams.
* To dip or duck.
** 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:you may dape or dop, and also with a grasshopper, behind a tree, or in any deep hole; still making it to move on the top of the water, as if it were alive, and still keeping yourself out of sight
** 1693, [Thomas] d’Urfey, The Richmond Heiress: Or, A Woman Once in the Right. A Comedy, […], London: […] Samuel Briscoe, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 14:Then at the Play-Houſe ye ogle the Boxes, and dop and bovv to thoſe you do not knovv, as vvell as thoſe you do.

### Etymology 3

From Dutch dop, from Middle Dutch dop, dup, doppe, from Old Dutch *dopp, *dupp, from Proto-West Germanic *dupp, from Proto-Germanic *duppaz (“hollow, shell, bowl”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dop (“shell, pod, bowl”), German Topf (“pot”).

#### Alternative forms

* dopp

#### Noun

dop (plural dops)
* (South Africa, slang). A drink.
    Let's go to the bar for a dop.
* (South Africa, slang) An imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash.
    Give me a dop of brandy.
* (obsolete) A dip; a low courtesy.
** 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:The Venetian dop this
* (diamond-cutting) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

##### Synonyms

* (cup in which diamond is cut): doop

#### Verb

dop (third-person singular simple present dops, present participle dopping, simple past and past participle dopped)
* (South Africa, slang) To drink alcohol.
** 2004, Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game, page 170:They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop.

### See also

* dop kit

### Anagrams

* -pod, DPO, ODP, PDO, PO'd, POD, po'd, pod, pod-

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɔp/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: dop
* Rhymes: -ɔp

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch doppe, dup, from Old Dutch *dopp, *dupp, from Proto-West Germanic *dopp, *dupp, from Proto-Germanic *duppaz (“hollow, well, bowl”). Cognate with German Topf (“pot”).

#### Noun

dop m (plural doppen, diminutive dopje n)
* a shell (of an egg or a fruit for example)
    Beter een half ei dan een hele dop. - Better half an egg than a whole (empty) shell.
* a hemispherical container such as a thimble
* a bottle cap
    Synonym: flessendop
* (chiefly in the plural) an eyelid
    Kijk uit je doppen! - Look out!
* (Belgium, uncountable) the dole, unemployment benefit

##### Derived terms

* dopbeitel
* dopbonen
* doperwt
* dopgeld
* dopheide
* dophoed
* dopijzer
* dopjongen
* doppen (verb)
* doppot
* dopverband
* dopvrucht
* eierdop
* flessendop
* in de dop
* vingerdop
* wieldop

##### Descendants

* Petjo: dop
* → Indonesian: dop
* → Papiamentu: dòpi

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

dop
* inflection of doppen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian dopo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dop/, /dɔp/

### Preposition

dop
* behind, after (in place), back of
    L'automobilo esas dop la parieto.The car is behind the wall.

#### Antonyms

* avan

#### Derived terms

* dopa (“back, rear, hind”)
* dope (“astern, at the back, aback”)
* dopo (“back”)
* dopajo (“rear, back (object or part behind)”)
* dedop (“from behind”)
* dop-

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch dop.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdɔp]
* Hyphenation: dop

### Noun

dop (plural dop-dop)
* a cap of axis
* an arc lamp

### Further reading

* “dop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Transylvanian Saxon Dop (“stopper”).

### Noun

dop n (plural dopuri)
* cork (of a bottle), stopper
    Synonym: (popular) astupuș

#### Derived terms

* îndopa

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Middle Low German dōpe, from Old Saxon dōpi, from Proto-West Germanic *daupīni, from Proto-Germanic *daupīniz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.
Related to doppa (“to dip”), döpa (“to baptize”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /duːp/

### Noun

dop n
* A baptism, a christening ceremony.

#### Derived terms

* barndop
* dopakt
* dopattest
* dopbevis
* dopbok
* dopfunt
* dopförrättare
* dopgrav
* dopgudstjänst
* dopgåva
* dopklänning
* dopnamn
* dopritual
* dopskål
* dopvatten
* vuxendop

#### Related terms

* djup
* dopp
* doppa
* döpa

### References

* dop in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* dop in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* dop in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* dop in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)