canapé
English
Noun
canapé (plural canapés)
Translations
a bite size slice open-faced sandwich
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elegant sofa
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkaː.naːˈpeː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ca‧na‧pé
- Rhymes: -eː
French
Etymology
From Old French conopé, conope (later altered in form and meaning based on Medieval Latin canāpēum, alteration of canōpēum (“mosquito net”)), itself from Latin cōnōpēum (“seat with a canopy”), from Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon), from κώνωψ (kṓnōps, “mosquito”). Cognate with English canopy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.na.pe/
audio (file)
Noun
canapé m (plural canapés)
Descendants
- → Albanian: kanape
- → Alemannic German: Kanepe
- → Arabic: كَنَبة (kanaba)
- → Belarusian: кана́па (kanápa)
- → Czech: kanape
- → Danish: kanapé, kanape, canapé, canape
- → English: canapé
- → Finnish: kanapee
- → German: Kanapee, Canapé
- → Hungarian: kanapé
- → Greek: καναπές (kanapés)
- → Italian: canapè
- → Japanese: カナッペ (kanappe)
- → Korean: 카나페 (kanape)
- → Kurdish: qenepe
- → Lithuanian: kanapa
- → Macedonian: канабе (kanabe)
- → Persian: کاناپه (kânâpe)
- → Polish: kanapa
- → Portuguese: canapé
- → Romanian: canapea
- → Russian: канапе́ (kanapé)
- → Spanish: canapé
- → Swedish: kanapé
- → Turkish: kanepe
- → Vilamovian: kanapē
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
- H. H. Mallinckrodt, Latijn Nederlands woordenboek (Aula n° 24), Utrecht-Antwerpen, Spectrum, 1959 [Latin - Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
Further reading
- “canapé” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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