sap

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
2. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
3. (countable, uncountable) Any juice.
4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Vitality.
5. (countable, slang) A naive person; a simpleton.

Verb

1. (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (a tree, etc.).
2. (figuratively, transitive) To exhaust the vitality of.

Verb

To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Verb

1. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
2. (transitive) To pierce with saps.
3. (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
4. (transitive) To gradually weaken.
5. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
6. (US, slang, transitive) To strike with a sap (a blackjack)

Concepts

sève

saper

miner

jus

sape

suc

pneu

pneumatique

ridicule

soupe

🍲

dupe

matraque

aubier

aubour

bouillon

épuiser

lymphe

naïf

nigaud

Synonymes

juice

undermine

mine

resin

fluid

liquid

gum

exhaust

subvert

fool

water

🚰

essence

scum

muggins

tomfool

blood

🩸

wetness

simpleton

cosh

saphead

tire

weaken

play out

pus

milk

🥛

drain

blackjack

gravy

lymph

club

run down

glue

sap-wood

dig into

dig

changeling

delve

dampness

cave

blood serum

daft

cytosol

burrow

cut

fruit juice

foolish

cudgel

bugle

gallery

beetle

🪲

Traductions

savia

Saft

sap

seiva

saba

linfa

ondermijnen

jugo

succo

نسغ

suc

sumo

Pflanzensaft

suco

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sæp/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: sap

Hérité de ancien anglais: sæp

Appartenant à néerlandais: sap

Appartenant à allemand: Saft

Appartenant à islandais: safi

Appartenant à gallois: sybwydd

Appartenant à latin: sapa

Appartenant à russe: со́пли

Appartenant à Classical Armenian: համ

Appartenant à avestique: 𐬬𐬌𐬱𐬁𐬞𐬀

Appartenant à sanskrit: सबर्

Appartenant à espagnol: zapar

Appartenant à italien: zappare

In summary

From Middle English sap, from Old English sæp (“juice, sap”), from Proto-West Germanic *sap (“sap, juice”) (compare Dutch sap, German Saft, Icelandic safi), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap- (“to taste”) (compare Welsh syb-wydd (“fir”), Latin sapa (“must, new wine”), Russian со́пли (sópli, “snivel”), Old Armenian համ (ham, “taste”), Avestan 𐬬𐬌-𐬱𐬁𐬞𐬀 (vi-šāpa, “having poisonous juices”), Sanskrit सबर् (sabar, “juice, nectar”)). More at sage.
The longstanding practice of sapping trees influenced the sense evolution of the military term as trench warfare receded from public conscience.

Phrases

It's shooting branches from the trunk , which means it can't properly get its sap to the top .

Il tire des branches du coffre, ce qui signifie qu'il ne peut pas correctement amener sa sève au sommet.