köken: From Middle High German valle, Old High German falla, deverbal from fallen. Compare typologically Czech past, Polish zapadnia, Russian западня́ (zapadnjá) (akin to па́дать (pádatʹ), па́сть (pástʹ)).
a pit trap or snare · a hole in the top of a box or other container for dropping things in · a deliberate ploy to deceive someone into a bad situation: a deliberate pitfall
köken: Compound of 落(お)とし (otoshi, “dropping, making something fall”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 落(お)とす (otosu, “to drop something, to make something fall”)) + 穴(あな) (ana, “hole”). Originally referred to a kind of trap. First attested to the early 1200s.
to grab (to take with a swift movement with e.g. one's hand or a tool) · to catch (to stop a falling or moving object) · to catch, to capture, to grab, to nab, to get (to stop an animal and prevent it from escaping)
çekim: geçmiş łapano · şimdiki łapie
eş: chwytać
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *lapati Old Polish łapać Polish łapać Inherited from Old Polish łapać.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *ansa (compare Estonian aas), borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ansā (compare Old Prussian ansis (“hook, latch”), Latvian osa), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂emseh₂ (compare Latin ānsa (“handle”)).