"hap" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /hæp/ Audio: En-au-hap.ogg Forms: haps [plural]
Rhymes: -æp 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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|hap}} Middle English hap, {{cog|ang|ġehæp|t=fit, convenient}} Old English ġehæp (“fit, convenient”), {{der|en|non|happ|t=hap, chance, good luck}} Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*hampą|t=convenience, happiness}} Proto-Germanic *hampą (“convenience, happiness”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*kob-|t=good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed}} Proto-Indo-European *kob- (“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”), {{cog|is|happ|t=hap, chance, good luck}} Icelandic happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), {{cog|is|heppinn|t=lucky, fortunate, happy}} Icelandic heppinn (“lucky, fortunate, happy”), {{cog|gmq-oda|hap|t=fortunate}} Old Danish hap (“fortunate”), {{cog|sv|hampa|t=to turn out}} Swedish hampa (“to turn out”), {{cog|cu|кобь|t=fate}} Old Church Slavonic кобь (kobĭ, “fate”), {{cog|sga|cob|t=victory}} Old Irish cob (“victory”), {{inh|en|enm|happen}} Middle English happen, {{inh|en|ang|hæppan|t=to move accidentally, slip}} Old English hæppan (“to move accidentally, slip”), {{der|en|non|*happa}} Old Norse *happa, {{der|en|gem-pro|*hampijaną||to fit in, be fitting}} Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”), {{cog|da|happe||to chance, happen}} Danish happe (“to chance, happen”), {{cog|no|heppa||to occur, happen}} Norwegian heppa (“to occur, happen”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hap (countable and uncountable, plural haps)
  1. (uncountable) A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate. Tags: archaic, uncountable Translations (luck, fortune, fate): heur [masculine] (French)
    Sense id: en-hap-en-noun-PBORzRzD Disambiguation of 'luck, fortune, fate': 62 38
  2. (countable) A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event. Tags: archaic, countable Synonyms (an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event): hazard
    Sense id: en-hap-en-noun-PJd2A9qM Disambiguation of 'an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event': 10 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: serendipity, luck
Etymology number: 1 Derived forms: goodhap, hapful, haphazard, hapless, haply, happen, happy, hapsome, mayhap, mishap, perhaps

Noun

IPA: /hæp/ Audio: En-au-hap.ogg Forms: haps [plural]
Rhymes: -æp Etymology: Clipping of happening. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|happening}} Clipping of happening, {{sup|3}} ³ Head templates: {{en-noun}} hap (plural haps)
  1. (slang, in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on. [from 20th c.] Tags: in-plural, slang Synonyms: occurrence Synonyms (happenings): affairs Derived forms: what's the haps
    Sense id: en-hap-en-noun-KBb8EbfG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 11 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 5 31 23 12 18 2 1 Disambiguation of Pages with 11 entries: 1 2 2 23 22 2 2 1 16 9 5 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 1 1 25 25 1 1 1 16 9 5 8 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /hæp/ Audio: En-au-hap.ogg Forms: haps [plural]
Rhymes: -æp Etymology: From Old English hap. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|ang|hap}} Old English hap Head templates: {{en-noun}} hap (plural haps)
  1. (UK, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania) 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. Tags: Pennsylvania, Scotland, UK, Western Derived forms: hap-harlot
    Sense id: en-hap-en-noun-cuQaDfnX Categories (other): British English, Scottish English, Western Pennsylvania English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

IPA: /hæp/ Audio: En-au-hap.ogg Forms: haps [plural]
Rhymes: -æp Etymology: Shortening of New Latin Haplochromis Etymology templates: {{der|en|NL.|-}} New Latin, {{taxfmt|Haplochromis|genus}} Haplochromis Head templates: {{en-noun}} hap (plural haps)
  1. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.
    Sense id: en-hap-en-noun-NggN-aPB
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 4

Verb

IPA: /hæp/ Audio: En-au-hap.ogg Forms: haps [present, singular, third-person], happing [participle, present], happed [participle, past], happed [past]
Rhymes: -æp 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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|hap}} Middle English hap, {{cog|ang|ġehæp|t=fit, convenient}} Old English ġehæp (“fit, convenient”), {{der|en|non|happ|t=hap, chance, good luck}} Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*hampą|t=convenience, happiness}} Proto-Germanic *hampą (“convenience, happiness”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*kob-|t=good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed}} Proto-Indo-European *kob- (“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”), {{cog|is|happ|t=hap, chance, good luck}} Icelandic happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), {{cog|is|heppinn|t=lucky, fortunate, happy}} Icelandic heppinn (“lucky, fortunate, happy”), {{cog|gmq-oda|hap|t=fortunate}} Old Danish hap (“fortunate”), {{cog|sv|hampa|t=to turn out}} Swedish hampa (“to turn out”), {{cog|cu|кобь|t=fate}} Old Church Slavonic кобь (kobĭ, “fate”), {{cog|sga|cob|t=victory}} Old Irish cob (“victory”), {{inh|en|enm|happen}} Middle English happen, {{inh|en|ang|hæppan|t=to move accidentally, slip}} Old English hæppan (“to move accidentally, slip”), {{der|en|non|*happa}} Old Norse *happa, {{der|en|gem-pro|*hampijaną||to fit in, be fitting}} Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”), {{cog|da|happe||to chance, happen}} Danish happe (“to chance, happen”), {{cog|no|heppa||to occur, happen}} Norwegian heppa (“to occur, happen”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} hap (third-person singular simple present haps, present participle happing, simple past and past participle happed)
  1. (intransitive, literary) To happen; to befall; to chance. Tags: intransitive, literary Synonyms: come to pass, occur, transpire, happen
    Sense id: en-hap-en-verb-OOCNp8dn Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Terms with French translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 10 9 72 9 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 16 13 57 14
  2. (transitive, literary) To happen to. Tags: literary, transitive
    Sense id: en-hap-en-verb-qIfo6WPC
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /hæp/ Audio: En-au-hap.ogg Forms: haps [present, singular, third-person], happing [participle, present], happed [participle, past], happed [past]
Rhymes: -æp Etymology: From Old English hap. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|ang|hap}} Old English hap Head templates: {{en-verb}} hap (third-person singular simple present haps, present participle happing, simple past and past participle happed)
  1. (dialect) To wrap, clothe. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-hap-en-verb-hxZlP5K5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 2, canto 3, verse 30:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Each day ſtill better others happineſſe,\nVntill the heauens enuying earths good hap,\nAdde an immortall title to your Crowne.",
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          "ref": "1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1:",
          "text": "URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.\nHERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps\nSome Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.",
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          "ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:",
          "text": "[I]t hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot […]",
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          "ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:",
          "text": "He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.",
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          "ref": "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:",
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          "ref": "1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1:",
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          "text": "He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.",
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