knap

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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

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Έννοιες

ωραίος

εξαίσιος

υπέροχος

αίθριος

ωραίας

ωραία

ωραίο

Συνώνυμα

mooi

schoon

net

fraai

fijn

prachtig

intelligent

aantrekkelijk

kwiek

wijs

lief

bevattelijk

mooie

bevallig

aardig

scherpzinnig

aantrekkelijke

slim

snugger

knappe

verstandig

Μεταφράσεις

beau

hübsch

schön

handsome

bello

bonito

belo

beautiful

formoso

intelligent

intelligent

fine

lovely

belle

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/knɑp/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Συγγενές με Middle Low German: knap

Συγγενές με Γερμανικά: knapp

Συγγενές με Δανικά: knap

Συγγενές με Σουηδικά: knapp

Συγγενές με Αρχαία Ελληνικά: 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."