kop
English
Noun
kop (plural kops)
- (South Africa) A hill or mountain.
- 2012, William Manchester, Paul Reid, The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
- […] a zigzag line of Lee-Enfield flashes, and a charge which took the kop at a cost of ten casualties. The victors held the key to the Ladysmith lock.
- 2014, Colin D. Heaton, Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler, Casemate, →ISBN:
- Within three hours, we took the kop. The dead and wounded were everywhere.
The Boers had taken the kop, collected their prisoners and had suffered very few casualties. However, they did not have the strength to hold the prisoners […]
- 2019, Christiaan Rudolf De Wet, Three Years' War, Good Press:
- A party of burghers, under Commandant Nel, of Kroonstad, were ordered to station themselves on a kop with a flat top, called Swartbooiskop, an hour and a half to the south of Nicholson's Nek.
Related terms
Noun
kop (plural kops)
- Rare spelling of cop (“dome, in armor”).
- 1917, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Proceedings, page 134:
- The solerets are wide-toed, […] ; the wings of the elbow and knee-kops small. The inner bends of the elbow joints are furnished with a pliable protection of numerous very narrow plates.
- 1994, Archaeologia Cambrensis:
- 1. Elbow Kop with rope-cable border.
2. Part of left Pauldron (shoulder piece) with similar border.
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch kop, from Middle Dutch cop, probably from Late Latin cuppa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔp/
Audio (file)
Descendants
- → English: kop
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkop]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: kop
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse koppr, from Middle Low German kop, from Latin cuppa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kop/, [kʰʌb̥]
Noun
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔp/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: kop
- Rhymes: -ɔp
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch cop, probably from Late Latin cuppa.
Noun
kop m (plural koppen, diminutive kopje n)
- cup (for drinking)
- (for animals, colloquial and derogatory for humans) head
- (colloquial, by extension) a (male) human
- Wat een kwaaie kop! ― What an angry guy!
- head of a nail, pin etc.
- Je slaat de spijker op de kop. ― You hit the nail on the head.
- front, lead, e.g. in a race; charge, control.
- De underdog ligt op kop. ― The underdog is in the lead.
- heading (of a text), headline
- heads (side of a coin)
- pegbox (part of a stringed instrument that holds the tuning pegs)
- one head's height
- Hij is een kop groter dan ik. ― He is a head taller than me.
Usage notes
It is considered impolite to refer to someone's head with kop. That word normally only refers to the head of animals, although for horses, which are considered noble animals, hoofd is generally used.
Derived terms
- blauwkopara
- boorkop
- bronskopeend
- de spijker op de kop slaan
- domkop
- een kopje kleiner maken
- glanskop
- grijskoppurperkoet
- grijskopspecht
- kaaskop
- kalfskop
- kop of munt
- kopbal
- kopjesbekermos
- koploper
- kopman
- koppie koppie
- koppig
- kopploeg
- koppoter
- kopschool
- kopschuw
- kopspijker
- kopstuk
- koptelefoon
- kopvoeter
- kopzorg
- krantenkop
- kroeskoppelikaan
- matkop
- moorkop
- op kop liggen
- paardenkop
- pestkop
- roodkopklauwier
- rotkop
- schapenkop
- spijkers met koppen slaan
- stierenkop
- varkenskop
- witkopeend
- witkopgors
- zwartkop
- zwartkopgors
- zwartkopmeeuw
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Finnish
Etymology
Onomatopoeic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkop/, [ˈko̞p]
- Rhymes: -op
- Syllabification(key): kop
Further reading
- “kop”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch kop, from Middle Dutch cop, probably from Late Latin cuppa. Cognate to Afrikaans kop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kop/, [ˈkɔp̚]
- Hyphenation: kop
Noun
kop (first-person possessive kopku, second-person possessive kopmu, third-person possessive kopnya)
Derived terms
- mengekop
Further reading
- “kop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔp/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔp
- Syllabification: kop
Etymology 1
Deverbal from kopać.
Noun
kop m inan or m animal
Declension
or
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Slovene
Etymology
Back-formation from kopati.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kóːp/
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “kop”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *kooppa. Cognates include Finnish kuoppa.
Declension
Inflection of kop (inflection type 6/kuva) | |||
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nominative sing. | kop | ||
genitive sing. | kopan | ||
partitive sing. | kopad | ||
partitive plur. | kopid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kop | kopad | |
accusative | kopan | kopad | |
genitive | kopan | kopiden | |
partitive | kopad | kopid | |
essive-instructive | kopan | kopin | |
translative | kopaks | kopikš | |
inessive | kopas | kopiš | |
elative | kopaspäi | kopišpäi | |
illative | kopaha | kopihe | |
adessive | kopal | kopil | |
ablative | kopalpäi | kopilpäi | |
allative | kopale | kopile | |
abessive | kopata | kopita | |
comitative | kopanke | kopidenke | |
prolative | kopadme | kopidme | |
approximative I | kopanno | kopidenno | |
approximative II | kopannoks | kopidennoks | |
egressive | kopannopäi | kopidennopäi | |
terminative I | kopahasai | kopihesai | |
terminative II | kopalesai | kopilesai | |
terminative III | kopassai | — | |
additive I | kopahapäi | kopihepäi | |
additive II | kopalepäi | kopilepäi |
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian kopp, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp. Compare Dutch kop, German Kopf.