hap
see also: HAP
Pronunciation
HAP
Noun
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see also: HAP
Pronunciation
- IPA: /hæp/
From Middle English hap, happe, potentially cognate with or from Old English ġehæp and/or Old Norse happ, from Proto-Germanic *hampą, from Proto-Indo-European *kob-.
Cognate with Icelandic happ. Related also to Icelandic heppinn, gmq-oda hap, Swedish hampa, Church Slavic кобь, Old Irish cob.
The verb is from Middle English happen, perhaps from Old English hæppan and/or from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną, from the noun.
Nounhap (plural haps)
- (slang, in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on.
- (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i], page 23 ↗, column 1:
- Each day ſtill better others happineſſe,
Vntill the heauens enuying earths good hap,
Adde an immortall title to your Crowne.
- (happenings) affairs; see also Thesaurus:occurrence
- (an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event) hazard, serendipity; see also Thesaurus:luck
hap (haps, present participle happing; simple past and past participle happed)
- (intransitive, literary) To happen; to befall; to chance.
- Synonyms: come to pass, occur, transpire, Thesaurus:happen
- (transitive, literary) To happen to.
From Old English hap.
Nounhap (plural haps)
- (UK, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania English) 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 (haps, present participle happing; simple past and past participle happed)
- (dialect) To wrap, clothe.
- 1859, John Brown, Rab and his Friends:
- The surgeon happed her up carefully.
Shortening of nl. - Haplochromis
Nounhap (plural haps)
- Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.
HAP
Noun
hap (plural haps)
- (medicine, pathology) Abbreviation of hospital-acquired pneumonia
- Initialism of hazardous air pollutant
- (hospital-acquired pneumonia) NP
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