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 verder

Synoniemen

mooi

schoon

net

fraai

fijn

prachtig

intelligent

aantrekkelijk

kwiek

wijs

lief

bevattelijk

mooie

bevallig

aardig

scherpzinnig

aantrekkelijke

slim

snugger

knappe

verstandig

Vertalingen

beau

hübsch

handsome

schön

bello

bonito

beautiful

belo

formoso

belle

ωραίος

intelligent

intelligent

fine

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/knɑp/

Etymologie (Engels)

Verwant aan Middle Low German: knap

Verwant aan Duits: knapp

Verwant aan Deens: knap

Verwant aan Zweeds: knapp

Verwant aan Oudgrieks: 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."