laba

Compare Tagalog haba.

• Hyphenation: la‧ba
• IPA^(key): /ˈlabaʔ/

labà (Basahan spelling ᜎᜊ)

1. length (measurement)

   Synonym: lawig

   Antonym: lipot

Borrowed from Spanish lavar. Doublet of labar.

• Hyphenation: la‧ba
• IPA^(key): /laˈba/

labá (Basahan spelling ᜎᜊ)

1. to launder; to wash clothes

Borrowed from Spanish lava, from lavar.

• Hyphenation: la‧ba
• IPA^(key): /laˈba/

laba

1. to wash, to launder

Borrowed from Chinese 喇叭 (lǎba).

• IPA^(key): /lɑˈpɑ/

laba

1. (music) horn; trumpet

• Ma Guozhong (马国忠), Chen Yuanlong (陈元龙) (2012) “laba”, in 东乡语汉语词典 (in Chinese), 2nd edition, Lanzhou: 甘肃民族出版社, →ISBN, page 253

From Proto-Finnic *lapa.

laba (genitive laba, partitive laba)

1. blade (flat surface)

• jalalaba
• lehelaba

• “laba”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

From Portuguese lavar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu laba.

laba

1. to wash

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

• IPA^(key): /láː.bàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

lābā̀ f (plural lābōbī, possessed form lābàr̃)

1. pound (unit of weight)

labà

1. long in length

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From Malay laba, from Classical Malay laba, from Sanskrit लाभ (lābha, “profit”).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: la‧ba

laba (plural laba-laba)

1. profit

   Synonym: keuntungan

2. benefit

   Synonyms: faedah, guna, manfaat

• “laba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Portuguese lavar.

laba

1. to wash

From Proto-Finnic *lapa.

laba

1. blade (a flat surface)

labā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of labō

• "laba", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

laba

1. inflection of labs:
   1. genitive masculine singular
   2. nominative feminine singular

From Sanskrit लाभ (lābha, “profit”).

• IPA^(key): /laba/
• Rhymes: -ba, -a

laba (plural laba-laba)

1. profit

   Synonym: keuntungan

2. benefit

   Synonyms: faedah, guna, manfaat

labà

1. length

• IPA^(key): /lapa/

laba

1. flower

From Portuguese lavar and Spanish lavar and Kabuverdianu laba.

laba

1. to wash

Uncertain, perhaps borrowed from German Labe, from Middle High German labe, from Old High German laba, from Proto-West Germanic *labu, from *labōn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.ba/

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• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: la‧ba

laba f

1. (colloquial) free time, hometime, knock-off time, leisure, quitting time

   Synonyms: fajrant, wolne

• laba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• laba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key):

laba f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of labă

From Proto-Cushitic *ɬam-. Cognate with Jiiddu lamma. Rendille lama, Baiso lama, Daasanach naama, Oromo lama, Blin leña.

laba f (variant labo)

1. two

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

laba

1. these; class 2 proximal demonstrative.

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laba

1. these; class 2 proximal demonstrative.

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laba

1. that over there, yonder; class 1 remote demonstrative.

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laba

1. that over there, yonder; class 3 remote demonstrative.

Borrowed from Spanish lavar.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /laˈba/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: la‧ba

labá (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜊ)

1. washing of clothes; laundering

   Synonyms: paglalaba, (obsolete) pipi

Borrowed from Spanish lava or English lava.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlaba/
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: la‧ba

laba (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜊ)

1. lava

Borrowed from Malay laba, from Sanskrit लाभ (lābha, “profit”).

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /laˈbaʔ/ (“growth, increase; big profit; usury”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -aʔ
  • IPA^(key): /ˈlabaʔ/ (“crescent shape”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -abaʔ
• Syllabification: la‧ba

labâ (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜊ)

1. growth; increase

   Synonyms: laki, paglaki, lago, paglago, tubo, sibol, dagdag

2. big profit; big gain
3. usury; usurious interest

   Synonyms: usura, labis na tubo

labà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜊ)

1. crescent shape (especially the waxing of the moon)

• alba, Alba, laab, bala, abla, alab

From Proto-Finnic *lapa.

laba

1. (clarification of this definition is needed) foot

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “стопа, ступня”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ ‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

• IPA^(key): /là.bà/

làbà

1. A Yoruba traditional leather attire similar to a kilt that is worn by priests of the orisha, like the Mọgbà or chiefs, such as the Ààrẹ ọ̀nà Kakaǹfò.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈláɓa/

laba

1. these; class 2 proximal demonstrative.

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “laɓa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “laɓa (3.9)”