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Added 9 October 2026

lap

/læp/ symbol

In Latin: gremium Wiktionary

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ISO 639-3 language code for Kabba-Laka.

noun

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.

verb

To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.

verb

To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
to lap a piece of cloth
to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
to lap a bandage around a finger
to envelop, enfold
lapped in luxury

Origin

From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-West Germanic *lappō, from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”). Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”).

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