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Meaning of Lop | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
lɒp

Definitions

  1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
  2. A flea.
  3. (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
  4. A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
  5. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
  6. A town in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Equivalents

العربية شذب قلم
Bosanski puto
Ελληνικά κλαδεύω
Español cortar mochar podar
Gaeilge meang
Galego decotar demoucar fanar moucar podar
Hrvatski puto
Magyar levesz
Latina putō
Português cortar podar
Русский обрубать
Српски puto
Türkçe budamak

Examples

“Why, we take, From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber”
“I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow”
“Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.”
“Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops”
“"He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."”
“The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.”
“Farther west was the ancient State of Jingjue, while the ruins of the city of Akispil, discovered in the desert northwest of Lop County, was one of the cities of the ancient State of Yutian.”

Xinjiang : the Land and the People

“East of Khotan itself, we find a local culture typified by a cemetery at Sampul (Shanpula). It is located near the administrative centre of Lop County (Luopu).”
“The Lop county official confirmed reports from overseas groups that the Chinese authorities were continuing a program of heavy religious control and censorship in Xinjiang.”
“The workshop in Lop County at the edge of Taklimakan Desert is in the most impoverished part of Hotan prefecture.”
“An acquaintance of Eli Ahun Qarim described the 50-something native of Lop county’s Igerchi village as a religious student with “a profound understanding of religion” who had earlier been detained for one year for teaching religion.”
“Miriding Mutailipu is a crystal scientist from Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Raised in Lop county, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Hotan prefecture, he grew up in a part of China known for thousands of years as a source of precious stones.”
“They would also block imports of items from the Lop County Industrial Park and the Lop County No. 4 Vocational Skills Education and Training Center, following the July 1 detention of products from Lop County Meixin Hair Product Co..”
“The attacks in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Lop (Luopu) county, occurred at 9 p.m. on Monday and 8:15 a.m. on tuesday, killing three suicide attackers and three police officers and wounding four other policemen, said Osman Toxtixelil, the police chief of the Konabazar (Old Town) police station in Lop town. No bystanders were killed or injured in the attacks, he told RFA’s Uyghur Service.”

CEFR level

C2
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