lepel

From Middle Dutch lēpel, from Old Dutch *lepil, from Proto-Germanic *lapilaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleː.pəl/

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• Hyphenation: le‧pel
• Rhymes: -eːpəl

Lepels.

lepel m (plural lepels, diminutive lepeltje n)

1. spoon

• lepelen
• lepeltje-lepeltje
• eetlepel
• maatlepel
• opscheplepel
• soeplepel
• theelepel

Of uncertain origin. Either from the Old Hungarian noun lep (“blanket, bedsheet”) or from the verb lep (“to cover”) +‎ -el (verb-forming suffix).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛpɛl]
• Hyphenation: le‧pel

lepel (plural leplek)

1. wrap, sheet, shroud, veil (a thin fabric used to cover something)
2. (figuratively) cover (that which conceals; a disguise or pretext)

   a sötétség leple alatt ― under cover of the darkness

3. (literary) a burial shroud

   Synonyms: halotti lepel, szemfedő

• leplez

(Expressions):

• halotti lepel

• lepel in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

From Old Dutch *lepil, from Proto-Germanic *lapilaz.

lēpel m or n

1. spoon

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• Dutch: lepel
• Limburgish: laepel

• “lepel”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “lepel”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929