drapa
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== English ==
=== Alternative forms ===
drápa
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Old Norse drápa.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈdɹɑːpə/
Rhymes: -ɑːpə
=== Noun ===
drapa (plural drapur)
A heroic, laudatory verse form in old Icelandic, popular between the 10th and 13th centuries and featuring a refrain
1997, Bernard Scudder (tranlator), Egil's Saga, in The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin 2001, p. 91)
Egil composed a drapa in praise of the king which includes the following verse —
=== Anagrams ===
DARPA, padar
== French ==
=== Verb ===
drapa
third-person singular past historic of draper
== Lower Sorbian ==
=== Alternative forms ===
drapjo
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈdrapa]
=== Verb ===
drapa
third-person singular present of drapaś
== Norwegian Bokmål ==
=== Alternative forms ===
drapene
=== Noun ===
drapa n
definite plural of drap
== Norwegian Nynorsk ==
=== Noun ===
drapa n
definite plural of drap
== Polish ==
=== Etymology ===
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
=== Pronunciation ===
(Lesser Poland):
(Goral):
(Żywiec) IPA(key): [ˈdra.pa]
=== Noun ===
drapa m inan
(Żywiec) small, sparse spruce forest
=== Further reading ===
Izydor Kopernicki (1875), “drapa”, in “Spostrzeżenia nad właściwościami językowémi w mowie Górali Bieskidowych z dodatkiem słowniczka wyrazów góralskich”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I)[1], volume 3, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 369
== Romanian ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from French draper.
=== Verb ===
a drapa (third-person singular present drapează, past participle drapat) 1st conjugation
to drape
==== Conjugation ====
== Swedish ==
=== Etymology ===
From Icelandic drápa, likely originally in the sense "song over a slain man". Doublet of dråp and dräpa.
=== Noun ===
drapa c
panegyric
(ironic) polemical article
==== Declension ====
=== References ===
“drapa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
“drapa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
“drapa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)