arop

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Pronunciations

arop (ah-RAWP) listen

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Definitions

  • adv. Down; off.

Example Sentences

  • "Held in Central Park, and attracting seven very enthusiastic human attendees, the course schooled the pooches present in the basics of Yiddishkeit dog etiquette. Among those standards were commands to sit (zits), stay (shtai), come (kum) and lie down (arop), as well as signals to the pups that they had been good (gut) or were getting a treat (maykhl), and the dreaded imperative 'no' (neyn)." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • אַראָפּ arop

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

      Alternative Spellings

      arup

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