alapa

alapa (plural alapas)

1. Alternative form of alap

• alaap, apala

Of unknown origin.

Originally used by Romans to refer to the strike given from master to slave upon manumission as a final act of indignity. First attested in Phaedrus when the Empire was already greatly expanded, then in the Semitic loanword-ridden Juvenal and largely attested in the Christian writings, i. e. from the proponents of a Semitic religion.

Hence, probably from Aramaic אַלַּף (allap̄, “to teach”), and/or from Proto-Semitic *ʔallipa (“to tame, to domesticate; to familiarize, to instruct, to put together, to join”), related via the idea of an ox trained to Proto-Semitic *ʔalp- (“ox, ox in a yoke”).

alapa f (genitive alapae); first declension

1. slap, smack (with the flat of the hand)

First-declension noun.

• “alapa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alapa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• alapa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• alapa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1907) “Zur romanischen Sprachgeschichte”, in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, volume 31, pages 582–586
• “ˀlp”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–

alapa

1. inflection of alapar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From oní (“the one/thing that has”) +‎ apá (“arm”)

• الَپَ

• IPA^(key): /ā.lá.k͡pá/

alápá

1. something armed, with arms

• IPA^(key): /à.lá.k͡pà/

àlápà

1. (Ijebu) melon cake

• IPA^(key): /à.lá.k͡pà/

àlápà

1. (Ijebu) pepper soup