nap

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nap/
• (US) IPA^(key): /næp/
• Rhymes: -æp
• Homophone: knap

From Middle English nappen, from Old English hnappian (“to doze, slumber, sleep”), from Proto-Germanic *hnappōną (“to nap”). Cognate with Old High German hnaffezan, hnaffezzan (> Middle High German nafzen (“to slumber”) > German dialectal napfezen, nafzen (“to nod, slumber, nap”)).

nap (plural naps)

1. A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:shut-eye, Thesaurus:sleep

• catnap
• dirt nap

See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for collocations of nap

nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)

1. To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.

   Synonyms: snooze, doze

2. (figuratively) To be off one's guard.
   • a. 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

     I took thee napping, unprepared.

   The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.

• catch napping

From Middle English nappe, from Middle Dutch

nap (countable and uncountable, plural naps)

1. A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
   • 1591, King Henry VI part II, by William Shakespeare

     I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16

     On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat.

   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 37:

     There were low bookshelves, there was a thick pinkish Chinese rug in which a gopher could have spent a week without showing his nose above the nap.

2. The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.

   If the fabric has a nap, make sure all pieces are cut with the nap going the same direction.

nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)

1. To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).

From the name of the French emperor Napoleon I of France

nap (plural naps)

1. (Britain) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
2. (uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
3. A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.

• go nap

Possibly of North Germanic origin, cognate with nab, see Swedish nappa (“to pinch”).

nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)

1. (obsolete) To grab; to nab.

• kidnap

From French napper, from nappe (“nape”).

nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)

1. (cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive).
   • 2006, Wayne Gisslen, Mary Ellen Griffin, Professional Cooking for Canadian Chefs‎:

     Vanilla ice cream topped with a poached or canned pear half, napped with chocolate sauce, and garnished with toasted sliced almonds.

From Middle English nap (“a bowl”), from Old English hnæpp (“a cup, bowl”), from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz (“a cup, bowl”). Cognate with Dutch nap (“drinking cup”), German Napf (“bowl”), Low German Napp (“bowl, cup”), Icelandic hnappur (“button, key”). See also nappy.

nap (plural naps)

1. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl.

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

• ANP, NPA, PAN, PNA, Pan, Pan-, Pan., anp, pan, pan-

From Old Occitan nap, from Latin nāpus.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈnap/
• Rhymes: -ap

nap m (plural naps)

1. turnip, Brassica rapa

nap

1. great

From Middle Dutch nap, from Old Dutch nap, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz.

• IPA^(key): /nɑp/

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nap m (plural nappen, diminutive napje n)

1. drinking cup

• zuignap

• pan

Of unknown origin.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɒp]

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nap (plural napok)

1. day

   Egy hét hét napból áll. ― A week consists of seven days.

2. sun (also written Nap in astronomical context)

   Süt a nap. ― The sun is shining.

• nap in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

From Old English hnæpp, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz.

• nep, nappe, neppe

• IPA^(key): /nap/

nap (plural nappes)

1. A bowl for one's beverages; a chalice.

• English: nap (now dialectal)
• Scots: nap

• “nap (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-30.

A back-formation from nappen.

• nappe

• IPA^(key): /nap/

nap

1. A nap or doze; a short sleep.

• English: nap
• Scots: nap

• “nap (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-30.

From Old English hnappian.

nap

1. Alternative form of nappen

From Old Occitan nap, from Latin nāpus.

nap m (plural naps)

1. turnip (Brassica rapa)

• nap del diable

• L'Occitan de Comunicason

From Latin nāpus.

nap m (plural napi)

1. turnip or swede (Brassica napus)
2. carrot

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