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From Middle English wrappen (“to wrap, fold”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to North Frisian wrappe (“to press into; stop up”), dialectal Danish vrappe (“to stuff, cram”), Middle Low German rincworpen (“to envelop, wrap”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch the face”), all perhaps tied to Proto-Indo-European *werp-, *werb- (“to turn, twist, bend”).

Compare also similar-sounding and similar-meaning Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, lap, envelop, fold”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap”) (from Germanic). Doublet of lap; related to envelop, develop. Also compare Latin verber (“whip, lash”).

wrap (third-person singular simple present wraps, present participle wrapping, simple past and past participle wrapped or (archaic) wrapt)

  1. (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
    Synonyms: bind, wind
    Christmas gifts are commonly known to be wrapped in paper.
    • 1947, Harry Stephen Keeler, The Case of the Barking Clock:
      I then dried these over a flame, and then, wrapping the formes and re-sealing them with my court seals — for my only commission, you see, was to report as to whether the type was unpied, and text ungarbled, and the formes all ready […]
  2. (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
    A snake wraps itself around its prey.
    • 1811, William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis:
      Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
    • 2003, Gary Tigerman, The Orion Protocol, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 143:
      The prehistoric caribou they had already liberated was wrapped in a space blanket and carefully tied to a sled. The Science Foundation team had then moved on to a deep translucent blue seam in the ice that proved to be a window on the rest of the ungulant herd standing poised in suspended animation, as if waiting for time to start again.
  3. (transitive, figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
    • a. 1640, Thomas Carew, Ingrateful Beauty Threatened:
      wise poets that wrap truth in tales
  4. (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
    To avoid going over budget, let's make sure we wrap by ten. (compare wrap up 2)
  5. (transitive, lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
    I wrapped the text so that I wouldn't need to scroll to the right to read it.
  6. (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
  7. (transitive or intransitive) To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
    The row counter wraps back to zero when no more rows can be inserted.

to enclose completely in fabric, paper, etc

From Middle English wrappe, from the verb (see above).

wrap (countable and uncountable, plural wraps)

  1. Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
    1. (automotive) A large sheet of self-adhesive material applied over a vehicle's paintwork for decorative or protective purposes.
      • 2025 December 9, Jori Finkel, “How Art Is Driving Waymo’s Feel-Good Branding”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
        The media theorist Peter Lunenfeld […] says illustrative art is often used to defang threatening technology. He compares the Waymo wraps to Google Doodles, which distract people while they are using a complex and opaque search engine algorithm that is “almost fully beyond our ken.”
  2. A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
  3. (chiefly in the plural, now rare) An outer garment worn as protection while riding, travelling etc.
    • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, chapter 6:
      ‘I see you have had our Lowick Cicero here,’ she said, seating herself comfortably, throwing back her wraps, and showing a thin but well-built figure.
  4. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
  5. (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
    • 1994, Olivia Goldsmith, Fashionably Late:
      But she could knock off right after the wrap, have dinner, and take a later flight.
    • 2003 January 12, “Encore Presentation: Interview With the Bee Gees”, in CNN_KingWknd:
      The first time I met him is when we went to the – after the wrap party, we went to a little sound room – or a little screening room and watched the preview
    • 2009 November 14, Fox News Watch:
      And that's a wrap on "News Watch." For Judy, Jim, Cal and Kirsten, I'm Jon Scott. We'll see you again next week.'
  6. A wraparound mortgage.
  7. (television, radio) A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
    Synonym: package
    • 2005, Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle, Broadcast Announcing Worktext, page 164:
      This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.
    • 2005, Ted White, Broadcast News: Writing, Reporting, and Producing, page 245:
      Attend a news conference, and prepare a wrap or package.
  8. The act of wrapping.
    Give the present a quick wrap before James sees it.
    • 2026, Tom Knisley, “Exploring S- and Z-Twist”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 42:
      I started out by wrapping the first thread around a ruler for 1 inch and found that it had 24 wraps to the inch.
  9. (poker slang) A straight draw in which there are more than 8 outs to complete the straight, especially in Omaha hold 'em.
    Coordinate terms: inside straight draw, up and down straight draw, open ended straight draw, gut-shot straight

garment

food

the completion of all or a major part of a performance

wrap (plural wraps)

  1. (Australia, informal) Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”).

  2. ^ Walker, John (1791), “Wrap”, in A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: G. G. J. and J. Robinſon […] and T. Cadell, →OCLC, page 579: “☞ This word is often pronounced wrop, rhyming with top, even by ſpeakers much above the vulgar.”

  3. ^ Stanley, Oma (1937), “I. Vowel Sounds in Stressed Syllables”, in The Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2), New York: Columbia University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 5, page 13.

  4. ^ Dobson, E[ric] J. (1957), English pronunciation 1500-1700‎[1], second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 416, page 976.

From English wrap.

wrap

  1. wrap (food)

| | singular | plural | | | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | nominative | wrap | wrapit | | genitive | wrapin | wrappien | | partitive | wrappiä | wrappejä | | accusative | wrapwrapin | wrapit | | inessive | wrapissä | wrapeissä | | elative | wrapistä | wrapeistä | | illative | wrappiin | wrappeihin | | adessive | wrapillä | wrapeillä | | ablative | wrapiltä | wrapeiltä | | allative | wrapille | wrapeille | | essive | wrappinä | wrappeinä | | translative | wrapiksi | wrapeiksi | | abessive | wrapittä | wrapeittä | | instructive | – | wrapein | | comitative | – | wrappeineen |

Borrowed from English wrap.

wrap m (plural wraps)

  1. wrap (sandwich)

wrap

Unadapted borrowing from English wrap.

wrap m animal or m inan

  1. wrap (type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake)

Unadapted borrowing from English wrap.

wrap m (plural wraps)

  1. wrap (sandwich)

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.