hap

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate. archaic,uncountable
  2. Happenings; events; goings-on. archaic,in-plural,slang
    — 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 of a bed to keep feet warm. Pennsylvania,Scotland,UK,Western,archaic
  4. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini. archaic
  5. A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event. archaic,countable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To happen; to befall; to chance. archaic,intransitive,literary
    — "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,....
  2. To wrap, clothe. archaic,dialectal
    — 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.
  3. To happen to. archaic,literary,transitive
    — What meaneth June, to hap us every year.

词形变化

haps plural haps present,singular,third-person happing participle,present happed participle,past happed past haps plural haps plural haps present,singular,third-person happing participle,present happed participle,past happed past haps plural

词汇关系

近义词
serendipity
衍生词
goodhap hapful haphazard hapless haply happen happy hapsome mayhap mishap perhaps unhap behap

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
Clipping of happening.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Old English hap
English hap
Inherited from Old English hap.
词源 4
Shortening of New Latin Haplochromis
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