sap

English

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): /sæp/

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Etymology 1

From Средњи Енглески sap, from Стари Енглески sæp (“juice, sap”), from Пра-Германски *sapą (“sap, juice”) (compare Холандски sap, Немачки Saft, Исландски safi), from Пра-Индо-Европски *sab-, *sap- (“to taste”) (compare Велшки syb-wydd (“fir”), Латински sapa (“must, new wine”), Руски со́пли (sópli, “snivel”), Јерменски համ (ham, “juice, taste”), Авестански 𐬬𐬌-𐬱𐬁𐬞𐬀‎ (vi-šāpa, “having poisonous juices”), Санскрт सबर् (sabar, “juice, nectar”)). More at sage.

Noun

sap (countable and uncountable, plural saps)

1. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
2. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
3. Any juice.
4. (figuratively) Vitality.
5. (slang, countable) a naive person; a simpleton

   Синоними: milksop, saphead

Derived terms

terms derived from sap

• crude sap
• elaborated sap
• sap ball
• sapful
• sap green
• saphead
• sapless
• sapling

• sap poison
• sappy
• sap rot
• sapsucker
• sap tube

Translations

juice of plant

• Armenian: молим додајте овај превод ако можете[[Категорија:Захтеви за превод у Шаблон:langname|SAP]]
• Assamese: কহ (koh)
• Bashkir: һут (hut), һыу (hïw)
• Belarusian: сок m (sok)
• Bulgarian: мъзга f (mǎzga), сок m (sok)
• Burmese: молим додајте овај превод ако можете[[Категорија:Захтеви за превод у Шаблон:langname|SAP]]
• Catalan: saba (ca) f
• Chamicuro: ijsana'to
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 樹液 (zh), 树液 (zh) (shùyè), 汁 (zh) (shī)

• Czech: míza (cs) f
• Dutch: sap (nl) n
• Esperanto: молим додајте овај превод ако можете[[Категорија:Захтеви за превод у Шаблон:langname|SAP]]
• Finnish: mahla (fi)
• French: sève (fr) f
• Georgian: წვენი (c̣veni)
• German: Saft (de) m
• Hebrew: שרף‎ (he) m (saraf)
• Italian: linfa (it) f
• Japanese: 樹液 (じゅえき, jueki), 汁 (ja) (しる, shiru)
• Jarai: kơtăk
• Kapampangan: adta, agta
• Khmer: រុក្ខរស (rukkʰa’rʊəh), ជ័រ (km) (coa), រស (km) (rʊəh)
• Korean: 즙 (ko) (jeup) (汁 (ko)), 수액 (ko) (suaek) (樹液 (ko))
• Lao: молим додајте овај превод ако можете[[Категорија:Захтеви за превод у Шаблон:langname|SAP]]
• Latin: sucus (la) m
• Maori: tawau, tarawai, pia
• Mongolian: молим додајте овај превод ако можете[[Категорија:Захтеви за превод у Шаблон:langname|SAP]]

• Mwani: urokozi, unoni (Nkojo)
• Nepali: молим додајте овај превод ако можете[[Категорија:Захтеви за превод у Шаблон:langname|SAP]]
• Norman: sève f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (trees) sevje m or f

  Nynorsk: (trees) sevje f

• Persian: شیره‎ (fa) (šire)
• Polish: sok (pl)
• Portuguese: seiva (pt)
• Romanian: sevă (ro) f
• Russian: сок (ru) m (sok)
• Scottish Gaelic: brìgh f
• Slovak: miazga f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mězga f, brjacka f

• Spanish: savia (es)
• Swahili: utomvu (sw)
• Swedish: sav (sv) c
• Tagalog: dagta (tl)
• Telugu: పాలు (te) (pālu)
• Thai: молим додајте овај превод ако можете[[Категорија:Захтеви за превод у Шаблон:langname|SAP]]
• Tibetan: молим додајте овај превод ако можете[[Категорија:Захтеви за превод у Шаблон:langname|SAP]]
• Tok Pisin: blut
• Ukrainian: сік m (sik)
• Vietnamese: молим додајте овај превод ако можете[[Категорија:Захтеви за превод у Шаблон:langname|SAP]]
• White Hmong: молим додајте овај превод ако можете[[Категорија:Захтеви за превод у Шаблон:langname|SAP]]
• Zhuang: молим додајте овај превод ако можете[[Категорија:Захтеви за превод у Шаблон:langname|SAP]]

sapwood of a tree

• Dutch: spint (nl) n, spinthout n
• Finnish: nila (fi)
• German: Mantelholz n, Splint m
• Italian: alburno (it) m
• Khmer: ស្រាយ (km) (sraay)

• Persian: برون‌چوب‎ (fa) (borun-čub)
• Russian: за́болонь (ru) f (zábolonʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: brìgh f, sùgh m
• Tok Pisin: blut

slang: saphead

• Dutch: slappeling (nl) m, imbeciel (nl) m, idioot (nl) m, simpele (nl) m
• Finnish: hölmö (fi), tollo (fi), tomppeli (fi)
• French: naïf (fr), nigaud (fr)
• German: Einfaltspinsel (de) m, Heulsuse (de) f, Simpel (de) m
• Hebrew: פראייר‎ (he) m (frayer)
• Hungarian: balek (hu)
• Italian: sempliciotto (it) m

• Khmer: ឆោត (km) (cʰaot)
• Norwegian: tosk m
• Persian: اسکل‎ (fa) (oskol)
• Romanian: fraier (ro)
• Russian: простак (ru) m (prostak), простофиля (ru) m (prostofilja)
• Spanish: simplon m

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Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} succo[[Категорија:Захтеви за преиспитивање преводи|SAP]]

Verb

sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)

1. (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
2. (transitive, figuratively) To exhaust the vitality of.

Etymology 2

Probably from sapling.

Noun

sap (plural saps)

1. (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

Translations

leather-covered hand weapon

• Dutch: ploertendoder (nl) m
• French: matraque (fr) f

• Italian: manganello (it) m

Verb

sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)

1. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Translations

strike with a sap

• Dutch: knuppelen (nl)

Etymology 3

From Француски saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from sape (“sort of scythe”), from Рани Латински sappa (“sort of mattock”).

Noun

sap (plural saps)

1. (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Derived terms

• sap fagot
• sap roller
• sapper

Translations

narrow ditch or trench

• Finnish: juoksuhauta (most often “juoksuhauta” would translate into English as “trench”. In Finnish the same word covers also “sap”.)
• French: sape (fr) f
• Icelandic: skotgröf f

• Manx: fo-chlash f
• Russian: са́па (ru) f (sápa)

Verb

sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)

1. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden

     Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.

2. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
3. (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
   • 1850, Alfred Tennyson, Ring, Out, Wild Bells

     Ring out the grief that saps the mind […]

4. (transitive) To gradually weaken.

   to sap one’s conscience

5. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Translations

undermine

• Dutch: ondermijnen (nl), aantasten (nl), ondergraven (nl)
• Finnish: heikentää (fi)
• French: saper (fr), miner (fr)
• Ido: sapar (io)

• Italian: scalzare (it), minare (it)
• Portuguese: socavar
• Romanian: săpa (ro), submina (ro)
• Spanish: zapar (es), socavar (es)

pierce with saps

• Manx: towl

make unstable; weaken

• Dutch: ondermijnen (nl), verzwakken (nl), aantasten (nl)
• Finnish: uuvuttaa (fi), heikentää (fi)

• Italian: indebolire (it), fiaccare (it), logorare (it)

gradually weaken

• Dutch: ondermijnen (nl), knagen (nl) aan, aantasten (nl)
• German: aufzehren, erschöpfen (de)

• Maori: whakangoikore
• Russian: истощать (ru) (istoščatʹ), иссуша́ть (ru) (issušátʹ)

proceed by mining

• Dutch: ondermijnen (nl), ondergraven (nl)

Anagrams

• APS, APs, ASP, PAS, PAs, PSA, Pas, Psa., SPA, Spa, asp, pas, spa ^{(alphagram aps)}

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• sapu, tsap, tsapu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sappō, from Латински sappa. Compare Romanian săpa, sap, French saper, Italian zappare, Sicilian zappari, Spanish zapar, Friulian sapâ, Venetian sapar, Latin sappa.

Verb

sap (past participle sãpatã)

1. I dig (with a pick).

Related terms

• sãpari / sãpare
• sãpat
• sapã
• sãpãtor
• sãpãturã

See also

• tãrchescu
• arãm

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): /sap/
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Verb

sap

1. third-person singular present indicative form of saber

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Dutch

Etymology

From Средњи Холандски sap, from Стари Холандски *sap, from Пра-Германски *sapą. Cognate to English sap and German Saft (from Old High German saf).

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): /sɑp/

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Noun

sap n (plural sappen, diminutive sapje n)

1. sap (fluid in plants)
2. juice

   Hyponymи: aalbessensap, appelsap, citroensap, druivensap, sinaasappelsap, vruchtensap

Derived terms

• sappig

Anagrams

• pas

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Polish

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): /sap/

Verb

sap

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Romani

Etymology

From Санскрт सर्प (sarpá, “snake”), from Пра-Индо-Ирански *sarpás.

Pronunciation

[[Категорија:Захтеви за изговор у ставкама|SAP]]

Noun

sap m

1. snake

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Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic sap, from Пра-Турски.

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): /ˈsɑp/

Noun

sap

1. shaft

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Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sappi.

Noun

sap

1. gall (bile)

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Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from Латински sapiō (“I am wise”).

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): /sɑːp/

Noun

sap

1. wisdom

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Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) МФА^(кључ): /θaːp˧˥/
• Tone numbers: sap⁷
• Hyphenation: sap

Etymology 1

From Прото-Тај *saːpᴰ (“cockroach”). Cognate with Тајски สาบ (sàap), Лао ສາບ (sāp), Shan သၢပ်ႇ (sàap).

Noun

sap (old orthography sap, Sawndip forms 𫊷)

1. cockroach

Etymology 2

Verb

sap (old orthography sap)

1. to wear shoes with the heels stepping down on the back of the shoes