knap

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. attractive, handsome, pretty
2. impressive, decent, rather good or big
3. smart, intelligent, gifted, clever
4. (archaic) lissom, agile, brisk, fresh
5. (archaic) tight-fitting, shapely
6. (archaic) tight (of a budget), scarce

Adv

quite, rather, pretty (reinforces what follows)

Verb

1. (first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular) inflection of knappen:
2. (form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular) inflection of knappen:
3. (form-of, imperative) inflection of knappen:

knappen

to crack

Lees meer

Sinonieme

mooi

schoon

net

fraai

fijn

prachtig

intelligent

aantrekkelijk

kwiek

wijs

lief

bevattelijk

mooie

bevallig

aardig

scherpzinnig

aantrekkelijke

slim

snugger

knappe

verstandig

Vertalings

beau

hübsch

handsome

schön

bello

bonito

beautiful

belo

formoso

belle

ωραίος

intelligent

intelligent

fine

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/knɑp/

Etimologie (Engels)

Verwante met Middle Low German: knap

Verwante met Duits: knapp

Verwante met Deens: knap

Verwante met Sweeds: knapp

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: κνάπτω

In summary

Ca. 1500. A word originally found only in Dutch and Low German; compare Middle Low German knap, whence German knapp, Danish knap, Swedish knapp, all “scarce, scant”, also “tight-fitting, small” (of clothes). From the last, Dutch derived “attractive, pretty”, which was then further generalised; cf. semantically German schmücken (“to embellish", originally "to fit tightly”).
Further origin unknown. Perhaps comparable to Ancient Greek κνάπτω (knáptō, “to card wool”), κνέφαλλον (knéphallon, “flock, wool”), in the sense of "tight-fitting, shapely."