lap

Mane (Îngilîzî)

Noun

1. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
2. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
3. The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
4. A place of rearing and fostering.
5. The upper legs of a seated person.
6. The female pudenda.
7. A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.

Verb

1. To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
2. To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.

Verb

1. To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
2. to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
3. to envelop, enfold
4. to wind around
5. To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
6. To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
7. To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
8. To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
9. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.

Verb

1. To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
2. To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.

Adj

Clipping of laparoscopic.

Wekî (IPA) tê gotin

/læp/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”). Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”).