alap

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Borrowed from Sanskrit आलापा (ālāpā).

alap (plural alaps)

1. (music) The opening, improvised section of a Classical raga performance, before the formal recitation.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 176:

     The alaap is the part of our classical music that I like best. It is an inward voyage, an odyssey into the unknown.

• Pala, lapa, pa'al, pala

alap

1. wing

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• IPA^(key): [ˈɒlɒp]

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• Hyphenation: alap
• Rhymes: -ɒp

alap (plural alapok)

1. base, foundation
2. (figuratively, especially in the forms alapon and alapján) (on a…) basis, (on the) basis (of…), (on the) grounds (of…), (by the) token (of…), (as a) matter (of…), (by) reason (of…), (at a/the/that) rate (that…)

• alap in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• alap in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

alap

1. Romanization of ꦲꦭꦥ꧀

• IPA^(key): /alap/
• Rhymes: -alap, -lap, -ap

From Proto-Malayic *alap, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alap, from Proto-Austronesian *alap (“fetch, get, take”).

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 CE, as Old Malay [script needed] (alap) in inflected form maṅalap (current spelling mengalap).

alap (Jawi spelling الڤ)

1. (colloquial, Kedah Malay) to gather a fruit using pole (that attached with knife or hook).
2. (obsolete) to take.

• delapan, lapan
• mengalap
• alap-alap

alap (Jawi spelling الڤ)

1. slowly, calmly
2. (colloquial) quite and gentle.
3. unhurried
4. within long intervals

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “الڤ alap”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 17
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “الڤ alap”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 31
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “alap”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 17

• “alap” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alap, from Proto-Austronesian *alap (“fetch, get, take”).

alap

1. to take
2. to fetch
3. to carry off
4. to steal
5. to seize
6. to win

• Javanese: ꦲꦭꦥ꧀ (alap)

• "alap" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔalap/ [ˈʔa.lɐp]
• Rhymes: -alap
• Syllabification: a‧lap

alap (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜉ᜔)

1. shift; turn (in a work or assignment)

   Synonyms: turno, halili, halang

2. selective cutting or harvesting (of grass, rice, corn, fruits, etc.)

   Synonym: gamas

3. recruitment (of laborers)

   Synonym: kalap

4. enlistment (into the army or navy)

   Synonym: kalap

5. scum

   Synonyms: eskoma, linab

6. act of scooping out the scum (on the liquid surface)

   Synonyms: sagap, salap

• “alap”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018