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hap

noun
/hæp/

Etymology

From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), potentially cognate with or from Old English ġehæp (“fit, convenient”) and/or Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), from Proto-Germanic *hampą (“convenience, happiness”), from Proto-Indo-European *kob- (“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”). Cognate with Icelandic happ (“hap, chance, good luck”). Related also to Icelandic heppinn (“lucky, fortunate, happy”), Old Danish hap (“fortunate”), Swedish hampa (“to turn out”), Old Church Slavonic кобь (kobĭ, “fate”), Old Irish cob (“victory”). The verb is from Middle English happen, perhaps from Old English hæppan (“to move accidentally, slip”) and/or from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”), from the noun. Cognate with Old Danish happe (“to chance, happen”), Norwegian heppa (“to occur, happen”).

  1. derived from *hampijaną✻
  2. derived from *happa✻
  3. inherited from hæppan — “to move accidentally, slip”
  4. inherited from happen
  5. derived from *kob-✻ — “good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”
  6. derived from *hampą✻ — “convenience, happiness”
  7. derived from happ — “hap, chance, good luck”
  8. inherited from hap

Definitions

  1. A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.

  2. A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected,…

    A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event.

    • Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on haps, and do not make despair / For all these certain blows the surest shield.
    • And whether art it were, or heedless hap, / As through the flowring forest rash she fled, / In her rude hairs sweet flowres themselves did lap / And flourishing fresh leaves and blossoms did enwrap.
    • Each day ſtill better others happineſſe, Vntill the heauens enuying earths good hap, Adde an immortall title to your Crowne.

  3. To happen

    To happen; to befall; to chance.

    • "But laudably, since thus it happed!" quoth one: Whereat, more witness and the case postponed. "Thus it happed not, since thus he did the deed,....
    • "We must go there to retrieve it before the Krikkit robots find it, or who knows what may hap."
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. To happen to.

      • What meaneth June, to hap us every year.

    2. Happenings

      Happenings; events; goings-on.

      • Katie Griffin as Samantha Sparks: "Hey, Flint. I heard your extended (gasp) earlier. What's the haps?" Mark Edwards as Flint Lockwood: "The haps is -- you're not going to believe this, but dad asked me to make him an invention!"

    3. A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end…

      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.

    4. To wrap, clothe.

      • Bless thy pretty heart! The bairn’s sick. Come wi’ me, and I’ll hap thee up somewhere. If thou wert a bit cleaner I’d put thee in my own bed, for the Lord’s sake.
      • The surgeon happed her up carefully.
      • The practice was, before firing a shot for the purpose of blasting, to give an order to hap the crane, that is, to cover it, in order to protect it from the effect of the shot.

    5. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.

    6. Abbreviation of hospital-acquired pneumonia.

    7. Initialism of hazardous air pollutant.

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Derived

goodhap, hapful, haphazard, hapless, haply, happen, happy, hapsome, mayhap, mishap, perhaps, unhap, behap

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hap. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA