Lapp

adj, name, noun

adj, name, noun ·1 syllable ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An indigenous person from Lapland. One of the Sami people. dated, offensive, sometimes
  2. 2
    the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    From Lapland or of the Lapp peoples not-comparable

    "Lapp Gold - translation of the Finnish beer brand Lapin Kulta which can also be variously translated as "Gold from Lapland", "Lapland Gold" and hence "Lapp Gold""

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The language of the Lapp peoples.
  2. 2
    A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Apache web server, PostgreSQL database, and Perl, PHP or Python programming language.

Synonyms

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englishlanguagelapp languagelappiclappishlapplander

Example

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"Lapp Gold - translation of the Finnish beer brand Lapin Kulta which can also be variously translated as "Gold from Lapland", "Lapland Gold" and hence "Lapp Gold""

Etymology

From Swedish lapp, possibly of Finnish origin. Compare Finnish Lappi.

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