soap

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Meaning

Concepts

soap

soap opera

lather

Georgia home boy

easy lay

goop

grievous bodily harm

liquid ecstasy

max

scoop

cleanser

pod

wash with soap

lather up

cleansing agent

solvent

sopamin

aerate

foam

flattery

money

flatter

country-soap

detergent

gamma

soapiness

toilet soap

saponify

soapy

bar soap

powdered soap

bath soap

story

cake of soap

compo rations

serial

telenovela

animal fats

black

corrupt

filthy

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/soʊp/
Etymology

From Middle English sope, sape, from Old English sāpe (“soap, salve”), from Proto-West Germanic *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain”). Cognate with Scots saip, sape (“soap”), Saterland Frisian Seepe (“soap”), West Frisian sjippe (“soap”), Dutch zeep (“soap”), German Low German Seep (“soap”), German Seife (“soap”), Danish sæbe (“soap”), Swedish såpa (“soap”), Norwegian Bokmål såpe (“soap”), Norwegian Nynorsk såpe (“soap”), Faroese sápa (“soap”), Icelandic sápa (“soap”). Related also to Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent”), Latin sēbum (“tallow, fat, grease”). See seep. Latin sāpō (“soap”) is a borrowing from the Germanic.

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