ˈlap noun
( -s )
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: Swedish
1. : a member of a people of northern Scandinavia, Finland, and the Kola peninsula of northern Russia who are typically nomadic herders of reindeer, fishermen, and hunters of sea mammals : laplander
2.
a. : any one of the closely related Finno-Ugric languages spoken by the Lapps
b. : the Lapp languages taken as a group