хап

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حب (“grain”) (whence Turkish hap, Greek χάπι (chápi)), of Arabic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xap]

Noun

хап • (hap) m (diminutive ха́пче)

1. (pharmacology) pill, pellet

Declension

Declension of хап

	singular	plural
indefinite	хап hap	ха́пове hápove
definite (subject form)	ха́път hápǎt	ха́повете hápovete
definite (object form)	ха́па hápa
count form	—	ха́па hápa

See also

• ха́пя (hápja, “to bite”), ха́пка (hápka, “bite”) (native, etymologically unrelated)

References

• “хап”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “хап”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1904) “*хапъ, ха́пове”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 486

Yakut

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kap- (“to snatch”).

Verb

хап • (qap)

1. (transitive) to catch, to grab
2. (of a horse) to bite
3. (of a fish) to peck
4. (colloquial) to scold

   Synonym: үөх (üöq)

Derived terms

• иилэ хабан ыл (iile qaban ıl, “to pick up on”)
• хабыс (qabıs, “to play a game, to wrestle”)
• хаппах (qappaq, “cover, lid”)