drap

• IPA^(key): /dɹæp/

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Borrowed from French drap.

drap (plural draps)

1. (archaic) Cloth.

See drop.

drap (third-person singular simple present draps, present participle drapping, simple past and past participle drapped)

1. (Scotland) To drop.

drap (plural draps)

1. Pronunciation spelling of drop.
   • 1921, Robert W. Service, “The Twa Jocks”, in Ballads of a Bohemian‎^[1]:

     We've got tae get back wi' her, Hecky. Whit mercy we didna get fou!
     We'll no touch a drap o' that likker—
     that's hard, man, ye canna deny. . . .

• prad, PARD, adRP, pard

From Latin drappus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdɾap]

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drap m (plural draps)

1. cloth; rag

• drapaire
• endrapar

• “drap”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Late Latin drappus, drappum (“cloth”); compare Italian drappo, French drap.

drap m

1. drape, cloth
2. linen
3. underwear

drap

1. having the color of sand
2. having the color of human skin

From Late Latin drappum (“cloth”), first recorded in Frankish ordinances (The Capitularies of Charles the Great). More at drape.

• IPA^(key): /dʁa/

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drap m (plural draps)

1. sheet, duvet

• → Chadian Arabic: لدرى (ladra)
• → English: drap
• Haitian Creole: dra
• → Russian: драп (drap)

• “drap”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• drapaj

• IPA^(key): /drap/

drap

1. second-person singular imperative of drapaś

From Old French drap.

drap m (plural draps)

1. cloth (textile)

• French: drap (see there for further descendants)
• →? English: drab

From Old Norse dráp.

drap n (definite singular drapet, indefinite plural drap, definite plural drapa or drapene)

1. homicide, killing, murder

• drapsmann
• uaktsomt drap

drap m

1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of drepe

• “drap” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse dráp.

• dråp (non-standard since 2012)

drap n (definite singular drapet, indefinite plural drap, definite plural drapa)

1. homicide

• drapsmann

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

drap

1. past of drepa

• “drap” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• drape, drappe

From Late Latin drappus, of Germanic origin.

drap oblique singular, m (oblique plural dras, nominative singular dras, nominative plural drap)

1. sheet or covering
2. clothing

• Middle French: drap
  • French: drap (see there for further descendants)
  • →? English: drab
• Picard: drâp (Athois)
• Walloon: drap (Liégeois)
• → Middle English: drape
  • English: drape
  • Scots: drape

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrap/
• Rhymes: -ap
• Syllabification: drap
• Homophone: drab

drap

1. second-person singular imperative of drapać