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See also: Gapa, gâpa, gapą, Gapą, Ga-Pa, and gå på

Garo

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Etymology

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From gap- + -a.

Verb

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gapa (intransitive)

  1. to be full (of any container)
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  • gapeta (to fill, cause to be full)

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse gapa.

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Verb

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gapa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gapti, supine gapað)

  1. to gape

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Northern Paiute

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Etymology

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Compare Cahuilla kúpvel

Noun

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gapa

  1. bed

Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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gapa

  1. inflection of gape:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *gapōną (to gaze, observe), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (to gape, be wide open).[1]

Verb

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gapa (singular past indicative gapti, plural past indicative gǫptu, past participle gapat)

  1. to gape, open the mouth wide

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Middle English: gapen
  • Icelandic: gapa
  • Norwegian:
  • Swedish: gapa

References

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  • gapa”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “gap”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Polish

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -apa
  • Syllabification: ga‧pa
  • Homophone: Gapa

Noun

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gapa f

  1. (colloquial or dialectal, Far Masovian) booby (person)
  2. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń, Kuyavia) Alternative form of gap
  3. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń, Kuyavia) saddle made of calfskin or foal leather without stirrups
  4. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń, Kuyavia, Far Masovian) hooded crow (Corvus cornix)
    Synonym: wrona

Declension

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • gapa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • gapa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Józef Bliziński (1860) “gapa”, in Abecadłowy spis wyrazów języka ludowego w Kujawach i Galicyi Zachodniej (in Polish), Warszawa, page 622
  • Oskar Kolberg (1867) “gapa”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 270
  • Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “gapa”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 302
  • Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “gapa”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 108

Rotokas

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Etymology

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ga (pry open) +‎ -pa

Noun

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gapa

  1. wedge

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Sakizaya

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡa.ˈpa/, [ɡa.ˈpa]

Noun

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gapa

  1. canvas

Swedish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Swedish gapa or gap +‎ -a

Verb

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gapa (present gapar, preterite gapade, supine gapat, imperative gapa)

  1. to open one's mouth; keep one's mouth open
  2. to talk very loudly or shout
  3. to gape (be wide open)
    en gapande avgrund
    a gaping abyss
  4. to be (conspicuously) empty
    Läktarna gapade tomma
    The bleachers were empty
    Butikshyllorna gapade tomma
    The store shelves were empty

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Derived terms

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  • gaphals (someone who screams and shouts)

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