mop

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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɒp/
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• General-American: /mɑp/
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• rhymes with -ɒp
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From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map, nape, and nappe.

From Middle English moppe (“fool, simpleton; derisive gesture; child, baby, doll”), of obscure origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“pout, protruding lip”). Compare Low German mop, mops (“simpleton; pugnosed dog”), Dutch mop, mops (“pugnosed dog”), and the verb mope.

128 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: shtupë — implement for washing floors
• Arabic: مِمْسَحَة (mimsaḥa) — implement for washing floors
• Arabic: مِمْسَحَة (mimsaḥa) — implement for washing floors
• Arabic: جفّافة (jaffāfa) — implement for washing floors
• Armenian: պոլի փեդ (poli pʻed) — implement for washing floors
• Basque: lanbas — implement for washing floors
• Belarusian: шва́бра (švábra) — implement for washing floors
• Bulgarian: подочиста́чка (podočistáčka) — implement for washing floors
• Catalan: pal de fregar — implement for washing floors
• Chinese Mandarin: 拖把 (tuōbǎ) — implement for washing floors
• Cornish: skubell-wolghi — implement for washing floors
• Czech: mop — implement for washing floors
• Dutch: zwabber — implement for washing floors
• Dutch: dekzwabber — implement for washing floors
• Dutch: mop — implement for washing floors
• Esperanto: ŝvabrilo — implement for washing floors
• Finnish: moppi — implement for washing floors
• French: serpillière — implement for washing floors
• French: vadrouille — implement for washing floors
• French: moppe — implement for washing floors
• French: torchon — implement for washing floors
• Galician: fregona — implement for washing floors
• Georgian: შვაბრა (švabra) — implement for washing floors
• German: Mopp — implement for washing floors
• German: Wischmopp — implement for washing floors
• German: Schrubber — implement for washing floors
• German: Aufnehmer — implement for washing floors
• Greek: σφουγγαρίστρα (sfoungarístra) — implement for washing floors
• Hebrew: סְחָבָה (skhavá) — implement for washing floors
• Hindi: पोछा (pochā) — implement for washing floors
• Hungarian: felmosórongy — implement for washing floors
• Hungarian: felmosó — implement for washing floors
• Hungarian: mop — implement for washing floors
• Icelandic: moppa — implement for washing floors
• Icelandic: þvegill — implement for washing floors
• Ido: swabro — implement for washing floors
• Irish: mapa — implement for washing floors
• Irish: strailleán — implement for washing floors
• Italian: lavapavimenti — implement for washing floors
• Italian: spazzolone — implement for washing floors
• Italian: scopino — implement for washing floors
• Italian: mocio — implement for washing floors
• Italian: redazza — implement for washing floors
• Italian: scopa a filacce — implement for washing floors
• Japanese: モップ (moppu) — implement for washing floors
• Korean: 대걸레 (daegeolle) — implement for washing floors
• Korean: 자루 걸레 (jaru geolle) — implement for washing floors
• Māori: mapu — implement for washing floors
• Norwegian Bokmål: mopp — implement for washing floors
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mopp — implement for washing floors
• Oromo: foksoo — implement for washing floors
• Persian: زمینشوی (zaminshuy) — implement for washing floors
• Polish: mop — implement for washing floors
• Portuguese: esfregão — implement for washing floors
• Russian: шва́бра (švábra) — implement for washing floors
• Scottish Gaelic: sguab — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: chascona — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: coleto — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: fregona — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: lampazo — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: mapo — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: mechudo — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: mocho — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: mopa — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: palo de trapear — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: suape — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: trapeador — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: trapero — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: palopiso — implement for washing floors
• Spanish: mope — implement for washing floors
• Swedish: mopp — implement for washing floors
• Tagalog: lampaso — implement for washing floors
• Thai: ไม้ถูบ้าน (máai tŏo bâan) — implement for washing floors
• Turkish: paspas — implement for washing floors
• Turkish: mop — implement for washing floors
• Ukrainian: шва́бра (švábra) — implement for washing floors
• Vietnamese: cán lau nhà — implement for washing floors
• Walloon: loke a rlocter — implement for washing floors
• Walloon: drap d' måjhon — implement for washing floors
• Walloon: wite — implement for washing floors
• Walloon: såpire — implement for washing floors
• Welsh: mop — implement for washing floors
• Catalan: ganyota — a grimace
• French: grimace — a grimace
• Hungarian: grimasz — a grimace
• Hungarian: fintor — a grimace
• Polish: grymas — a grimace
• Catalan: xolla — head of hair
• Finnish: hiuskuontalo — head of hair
• French: tignasse — head of hair
• Hungarian: hajtincs — head of hair
• Hungarian: hajcsomó — head of hair
• Irish: straille — head of hair
• Irish: stoth — head of hair
• Italian: zazzera — head of hair
• Bulgarian: бърша с моп (bǎrša s mop) — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Chinese Cantonese: 拖 (to1) — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Esperanto: ŝvabri — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Finnish: mopata — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Finnish: luututa — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• French: serpiller — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• German: moppen — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• German: nass wischen — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Greek: σφουγγαρίζω (sfoungarízo) — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Hindi: पोछा लगाना (pochā lagānā) — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Hungarian: felmos — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Hungarian: feltöröl — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Hungarian: felsúrol — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Icelandic: skúra — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Icelandic: moppa — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Icelandic: skrúbba — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Icelandic: þvo — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Ido: swabragar — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Italian: lavare — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Italian: ripulire — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Italian: dare lo spazzolone — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Italian: ripassare con lo spazzolone — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Māori: mapu — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Norwegian: mopp — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Spanish: fregar — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Spanish: trapear — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Spanish: bayetear — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Spanish: mopear — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Swahili: deki — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Swedish: moppa — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Turkish: paspaslamak — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Turkish: paspas atmak — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop
• Turkish: paspas çekmek — to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop