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hap

hap · haps

случай, шанс, опасность

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Gefahr, Zufall, Hindernis

A person's lot, luck, fortune, fateA person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.

/hæp/

» Year in and year out in this place we have naught but these little haps to lighten our thoughts.

Значение

значений: 5

(архаичное, неисчисляемое)A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.
(архаичное, исчисляемое)A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event.
(архаичное, во множественном числе, сленг)Happenings; events; goings-on.
(Pennsylvania, Шотландия, Британия, Western, архаичное)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.
(архаичное)Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.

Ещё определения

an accidental happening

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Year in and year out in this place we have naught but these little haps to lighten our thoughts.
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Происхождение

From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), potentially cognate with or

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”).

Inherited from Old English hap.

Shortening of New Latin Haplochromis.

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