lá

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɔɑː
• Homophone: lág
• Rhymes: -ɔaː

Verb

lá

1. first/third-person singular past of liggja

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -laː

Noun

lá (plural lák)

1. la, a syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale

   Coordinate terms: dó, ré, mi, fá, szó, ti

Declension

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

or (as a means of distinction from certain inflected forms of lát (“to see”))

Further reading

• (Hungarian) An article on solfège with hand signs

Anagrams

• ál

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse *lá, from Proto-Germanic *lahaną (“to blame”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lauː/
• Rhymes: -auː

Verb

lá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative láði, supine láð)

1. to blame

   Ég lái Önnu það ekki.

   I don't blame Anna for it.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Verb

lá

1. first/third-person singular past indicative active of liggja

Noun

lá f (genitive singular lár, nominative plural lár)

1. the part of the sea near to the shore
2. billow (large wave)

Declension

Further reading

• “lá” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lá.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠaː/
• Homophone: láth

Noun

lá m (genitive singular lae, nominative plural laethanta)

1. day

Declension

• Alternative genitive singular: laoi (archaic, dialectal)
• Alternative plural: laetha, laethe (archaic, dialectal)
• Alternative dative plural: laethibh (archaic, dialectal)

Derived terms

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “lá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “lá” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “lá” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 78
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 42

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• la — nonstandard

Romanization

lá (la², Zhuyin ㄌㄚˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 拉
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 揦
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 旯
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 砬
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 磖
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 邋

Navajo

Particle

lá

1. it occurred to me (emphasizes a statement, or turns it into an exclamation, usually indicating recently discovered knowledge)

   Ashxoshgo tłʼízí shichʼahkʼįįʼí yę́ę sitsʼą́ą́ʼ yiyííłchozh lá. ― While I was sleeping the goat ate my straw hat.

Derived terms

• lágo

Old Irish

Etymology 1

Unknown. Thurneysen has tried to derive this term from the contraction of its synonym laithe, itself from Proto-Celtic *latyom, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁t- (“warm part of the year”), and cognate with Proto-Slavic *lěto n (“summer, year”). Hence, in the original versions of the Dictionary of the Irish Language, lá and laithe were formerly given in the same entry. However, Stifter remains skeptical of this etymology (and believes that the two words are not closely related at all), and eventually the 2019 edition of DIL separated the two terms into separate entries.

Alternative forms

• láa, lae

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l͈aː(e)/

Noun

lá n (genitive laí, nominative plural lá or láa or lae)

1. day, daylight

   Synonym: laithe

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 25^c6

     Hóre ammi maicc laí et soilse, ná seichem nahísiu.

     Since we are children of day and light, let us not follow these things.

2. (in adverbial phrases) Denoting point in time.

Usage notes

This noun, when used as a temporal reference, only referred to daytime. To refer to an event taking place across the course of a calendar day or more, a matching number of aidchi (“nights”) must be additionally specified. For example, an event occurring over three days would occur over trí láa ocus teora aidchi "three days and three nights" in Old Irish.

Inflection

Derived terms

• lá brátha

Descendants

• Irish: lá
• Manx: laa
• Scottish Gaelic: latha

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “lá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *layeti, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“to leave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l͈aː/

Verb

·lá (verbal noun -l)

1. unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs

Derived terms

Mutation

References

Old Norse

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lá f (genitive lár, plural lár)

1. the line of the shoal water along the shore

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: lá

References

• lá in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• lá in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lá

1. first/third-person singular past active indicative of liggja

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: lá

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese ala, from Latin ad (“to”) + illāc (“that way”).

Alternative forms

• là, lâ (obsolete)

Adverb

lá (not comparable)

2. there (in that place, far from both the speaker and the audience)

   Synonym: acolá

   Antonyms: aqui, cá

   Coordinate terms: aí, ali

   Minha casa fica lá. ― My house is located there.

4. used with an adverb phrase to indicate that something is far

   O Santo Graal está lá no topo do castelo. ― The Holy Grail is on top of the castle.

   A verdade está lá fora. ― The truth is out there.

6. (informal, in negative phrases) that; particularly (to a significant extent)

   Synonyms: de fato, na verdade, realmente

   Para andorinhas, carregar cocos não é lá tão difícil. ― For swallows, carrying coconuts isn’t that hard.

8. (informal, in interrogative phrases) even (expresses intensified disagreement with a previous sentence)

   Synonym: por acaso

   E ele lá entende o que você diz? ― And does he even understand what you say?

Usage notes

• ali also means there, but implies a relatively close location. aí is also translated as there but it is used for things close to the audience.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lá.

Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian la, from the first syllable of Latin labiī (“lip’s”).

Noun

lá m (plural lás)

2. (music) la (sixth note of a major scale, in solfège)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lá.

Coordinate terms

• do, ré, mi, fá, sol, si, dó

Etymology 3

Interjection

lá

2. meaningless syllable used in joyful singing

   Trá-lá-lá-lá-lá. ― Tra-la-la-la-la

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *s-laːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *slaʔ. Cognate with Thavung ซะล้า, Khmer ស្លា (slaa, “areca”), Bahnar hla, Mon သၠ (hlaˀ), Khasi sla, Semai sela. Related to Chinese 茶 (chá) (tea), which was a Loloish loan that in turn was borrowed from Austroasiatic.

Doublet of trà and chè.

Pronunciation

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Noun

(classifier chiếc) lá • (蘿, 𦲿)

1. a leaf

   Synonym: lá cây

   Chiếc lá cuối cùng ― The Last Leaf

See also

Classifier

lá • (蘿, 𦲿)

1. Used for thin and flat and/or leaf-like objects, such as letters, cards, flags, leaf-shaped organs (such as the liver, the lungs, the spleen, the pancreas), etc.

   lá thư/bài/cờ/gan ― a letter/card/flag/liver

   Rừng mưa A-ma-dôn là lá phổi xanh của Trái Đất.

   The Amazon rainforest is the green lung of the Earth.

Adjective

lá • (蘿, 𦲿)

1. (rare, literary) green