sap
English
/sæp/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- Any juice.
- (figurative) Vitality.
- (slang) a naive person; a simpleton
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sap inherited from Old English sæp (juice, sap) inherited from Proto-Germanic *sapą (juice, sap) derived from Proto-Indo-European *sab- (taste).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sab-
Gloss
taste
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- head English
- headed English
- pine English
- pinesap English
- sapa English
- sapfest English
- sapful English
- saphead English
- sapheaded English
- sapless English
- saplessness English
- saplike English
- sapling English
- sapper English
- sappest English
- sappeth English
- sappily English
- sappiness English
- sappy English
- sapskull English
- sapsucker English
- sapsucking English
- sapwood English
- skull English
- sucker English
- sucking English
- unsappy English
- wood English
- sahti Finnish
- *sapea Latin
- sabaia Latin
- sapa Latin
- Ananassaft German
- Apfelsaft German
- Apfelsinensaft German
- Aprikosensaft German
- Avocadosaft German
- Bananensaft German
- Grapefruitsaft German
- Hustensaft German
- Magensaft German
- Orangensaft German
- Pflanzensaft German
- Pflaumensaft German
- Saft German
- Saftpresse German
- Tomatensaft German
- Waldmeistersaft German
- Zitronensaft German
- saftig German
- szaft Hungarian
- sapa Italian
- zabaglione Italian
- zabaione Italian
- zabaione, zabaglione Italian
- zabajone Italian
- appelsap Dutch, Flemish
- appelsiensap Dutch, Flemish
- bessensap Dutch, Flemish
- citroensap Dutch, Flemish
- darmsap Dutch, Flemish
- druivensap Dutch, Flemish
- grondsap Dutch, Flemish
- heulsap Dutch, Flemish
- koeiensap Dutch, Flemish
- maagsap Dutch, Flemish
- sap Dutch, Flemish
- sappig Dutch, Flemish
- saprijk Dutch, Flemish
- sinaasappelsap Dutch, Flemish
- vruchtensap Dutch, Flemish
- со́пли Russian
- сопливый Russian
- *sab- Proto-Indo-European
- *sap- Proto-Indo-European
- *sapon- Proto-Indo-European
- saft Norwegian Bokmål
- sevje Norwegian Bokmål
- *sapą Proto-Germanic
- saft Swedish
- saftig Swedish
- saft Norwegian Nynorsk
- sevje Norwegian Nynorsk
- sæp Old English
- sæpig Old English
- sap Middle English
- sapling Middle English
- sappy Middle English
- sapar Irish
- safi Old Norse
- saft Danish
- seve Old French
- saft Serbo-Croatian
- appelsínusafi Icelandic
- safamikill Icelandic
- safi Icelandic
- saft Icelandic
- هو Persian
- sap Middle Dutch
- saf Old High German
- Saft Middle High German
- saf Middle High German
- Saaft Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- shap Albanian
- sappeur Middle French
- *sap Old Dutch
- saft Cimbrian
- հու Middle Armenian
- saba Sardinian