ap

Abbreviation of apothecaries'.

ap (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of apothecaries' system.

   ap oz

   apothecaries' ounce

ap

1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of appreciate and related forms of that word (appreciating, appreciated, appreciation, appreciative, etc.)

• PA, Pa, Pa., p.a., pa

• jap — Tosk

From Proto-Albanian *apa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁op-eio/e-, from *h₁ep- (“to take”).[1] The verb is suppletive with past dhashë and participle dhënë from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-.[2]

• IPA^(key): /aːp/

ap (aorist dhashë, participle dhënë) (Gheg)

1. to give

• active voice (same as jap (“to give”), except without [j-])

ap

1. man

• Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 156

ap

1. Alternative spelling of apw (“no”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːmuˌpæi̯ʋælːæ/, [ˈɑ̝ːmuˌpæi̯ʋælːæ] (usually)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːˌpeː/, [ˈɑ̝ːˌpe̞ː] (rarely)
• Rhymes: -æiʋælːæ, -eː
• Syllabification^(key): a‧p

ap (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of ap.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːˌpeː/, [ˈɑ̝ːˌpe̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): a‧p

ap (informal)

1. Abbreviation of aamupäivä (“morning; hours roughly from the beginning of the working hours to the noon”).

   Synonym: aamupäivä

   Minulla on ap vapaana.

   I have the morning free.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːˌpeː/, [ˈɑ̝ːˌpe̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): a‧p

ap

1. Alternative form of AP

• -pa

From Saint Dominican Creole French après, from French après.

• IPA^(key): /ap/

ap

1. Indicates the continuous aspect.
   • 2019 March 19, “Rankont ann Itali ant Anvwaye Espesyal Etazini ak Larisi sou Kriz Venezuela a”, in Lavwadlamerik‎:

     Dapre Misey Guaido, 2 peyi sa yo ap defann sèlman enterè biznis yo ak Venezuela.

     According to Mr. Guaido, these two countries are only defending their business interests in Venezuela.

2. Indicates a future tense that is relatively certain to happen.

• Lefebvre, Claire. "The tense, mood and aspect system of Haitian Creole and the problem of transmission of grammar in creole genesis", Université du Québec à Montréal, 1996

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ap

1. round, around

   Bērni skrien ap galdu. ― Children run around the table.

2. by, near, about
3. about, around

   Viņš atnāca ap pieciem. ― He came around five o'clock.

• apkārt
• apmēram
• aptuveni

Confer Arabic عَمّ (ʕamm), Persian عمو ('amu), Turkish amca, all with the same meaning.

• IPA^(key): /ɑːp/

ap m (Arabic spelling ئاپ)

1. paternal uncle (brother of one's father)

   Synonym: mam

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “ap”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 9

ap

1. imperative of ape

• abb

Borrowed from Latin abbās, from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”).

• IPA^(key): [ab]

ap m (genitive apad)

1. (Christianity) abbot
2. (by extension) leader, lord
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 26^a8

     Seiss i tempul amal do·n-essid Críst; ꝉ do·géntar aidchumtach tempuil less, et pridchibid smactu rechto fetarlicce, et gébtit Iudei i n-apid, et ɔ·scéra rect núíadnissi.

     He will sit in the temple as Christ sat; or rebuilding of the temple will be done by him, and he will preach the institutes of the law of the Old Testament, and the Jews will accept him as lord, and he will destroy the law of the New Testament.

• Irish: ab
• Manx: abb
• Scottish Gaelic: aba

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ap”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

ap

1. (Unquachog) bread

• Thomas Jefferson (1791) A vocabulary of the Language of the Unquachog Indians (in Quiripi)

From Old Frisian op, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *upp. Cognates include West Frisian op and German auf.

• IPA^(key): /ap/
• Hyphenation: ap
• Rhymes: -ap

ap (neuter or distal adverb deerap, proximal adverb hierap, interrogative adverb wierap)

1. on
2. onto

ap

1. up

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “ap”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *appi.

ap

1. father-in-law

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “свёкор”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From fab, soft mutation of mab (“son”). Cognate with Breton prefix ab-.

• IPA^(key): /ap/
• Rhymes: -ap

ap

1. A patronymic indicator; son of.

This form is found before consonants. Before a vowel, the form ab is used.

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ap”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

• up

From Middle English ap, up, from Old English upp.

• IPA^(key): /ap/, /ʊp/

ap

1. up
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 96:

     A peepeare struck ap; wough dansth aul in a ring;

     The piper struck up, we danced all in a ring,

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96