hap

• IPA^(key): /hæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), from Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), from Proto-Germanic *hampą (“convenience, happiness”), from Proto-Indo-European *kob- (“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”). Cognate with Icelandic happ (“hap, chance, good luck”). Related also to Icelandic heppinn (“lucky, fortunate, happy”), Old Danish hap (“fortunate”), Old English ġehæp (“fit, convenient”), Swedish hampa (“to turn out”), Old Church Slavonic кобь (kobĭ, “fate”), Old Irish cob (“victory”).

The verb is from Middle English happen, from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”), from the noun. Cognate with Old Danish happe (“to chance, happen”), Norwegian heppa (“to occur, happen”).

hap (plural haps)

1. (slang, in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on.
   • 2018, "Something Fishy", Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series

     Katie Griffin as Samantha Sparks: "Hey, Flint. I heard your extended (gasp) earlier. What's the haps?"

     Mark Edwards as Flint Lockwood: "The haps is -- you're not going to believe this, but dad asked me to make him an invention!"

2. (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1

     URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.

     HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps:

     Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

     [I]t hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot […]

   • Edmund Spenser

     whether art it was or heedless hap

   • Sir Philip Sidney

     Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on haps.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

     He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.

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hap (third-person singular simple present haps, present participle happing, simple past and past participle happed)

1. (intransitive, literary) To happen; to befall; to chance.

   Synonyms: come to pass, occur, transpire; see also Thesaurus:happen

   • 1868-9, Robert Browning, “The Ring and the Book”, in Edward Berdoe, editor, The poetical works of Robert Browning, published 1889, page 17:

     "But laudably, since thus it happed!" quoth one: Whereat, more witness and the case postponed. "Thus it happed not, since thus he did the deed,....

2. (transitive, literary) To happen to.
   • 1891, Elizabeth Stoddard, “No Answer”, in Harper's magazine, page 55:

     What meaneth June, to hap us every year.

From Old English hap.

hap (plural haps)

1. (Britain, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania, dialectal) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.

hap (third-person singular simple present haps, present participle happing, simple past and past participle happed)

1. (dialectal) To wrap, clothe.
   • Dr. J. Brown

     The surgeon happed her up carefully.

   • 1899, “Bartonshill Coal Co. v. Beid, 1 Pat. Sc. App. 792, 793.”, in Robert Campbell, editor, Ruling cases, volume 19:

     The practice was, before firing a shot for the purpose of blasting, to give an order to hap the crane, that is, to cover it, in order to protect it from the effect of the shot.

Shortening of Haplochromis

hap (plural haps)

1. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.

• AHP, PAH, PHA, pah

From Proto-Albanian *skapa, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, split, dig”). Compare English shape, German schaffen (“make, create”). Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“up from under, over”). Compare Low German apen, Icelandic opna, Norwegian åpne (“to open”), English open.

hap (first-person singular past tense hapa, participle hapur)

1. I open

• IPA^(key): /ɦɑp/
• Rhymes: -ɑp

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hap m (plural happen, diminutive hapje n)

1. bite
2. chunk

   (often diminutive) snack

See the etymology of the main entry.

hap

1. first-person singular present indicative of happen
2. imperative of happen

• hop

Onomatopoeic

hap m (genitive singular hap, nominative plural hapanna)

1. hop
2. blow

• "hap" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “hap” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From English half.

hap

1. half
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:6:

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2. part
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 2:21:

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3. place, one of a few places
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:22:

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• hap sankamap

From Arabic حَبّ‎ (ḥabb, “grains, seeds, pills”).

hap (definite accusative habı, plural haplar)

1. pill

• Greek: χάπι (chápi, “pill”)