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:

Concepten

knap

mooi

fraai

net

schoon

fijn

prachtig

intelligent

aantrekkelijk

wijs

kwiek

aantrekkelijke

knappe

mooie

verstandig

aardig

lief

scherpzinnig

slim

bevallig

bevattelijk

snugger

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/knɑp/

Etymologie (Engels)

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."