doop

doop (plural doops)

1. Alternative form of dop (“cup in which diamond is cut”)

• podo-, pood

• IPA^(key): /doːp/

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• Hyphenation: doop
• Rhymes: -oːp

From Middle Dutch dôpe, from Old Dutch dōpa, from Proto-Germanic *daupō. Equivalent to a deverbal from dopen.

doop m (plural dopen, diminutive doopje n)

1. baptism

   Synonym: doopsel

   Doop door besprenkeling staat niet in de Bijbel onderwezen.

   Baptism by sprinkling is taught not in the Bible.

   Er zijn vele verschillende dopen in de Bijbel en maar een paar zijn met water.

   There are many different baptisms in the Bible and only a few are with water.

2. christening
3. (Belgium) hazing

• (hazing): ontgroening (Netherlands)

• (baptism):

• (hazing): studentendoop

• Negerhollands: doop
• Skepi Creole Dutch: doup

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

doop

1. inflection of dopen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative