laba

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Etymology 1

Compare Tagalog haba.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

labà (Basahan spelling ᜎᜊ)

1. length (measurement)

   Synonym: lawig

   Antonym: lipot

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish lavar. Doublet of labar.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

labá (Basahan spelling ᜎᜊ)

1. to launder; to wash clothes

Derived terms

Related terms

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lava, from lavar.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

laba

1. to wash, to launder

Dongxiang

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese 喇叭 (lǎba).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑˈpɑ/

Noun

laba

1. (music) horn; trumpet

References

• Ma Guozhong (马国忠), Chen Yuanlong (陈元龙) (2000) “laba”, in 东乡语汉语词典 [Dongxiang-Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), Lanzhou: 甘肃民族出版社, →ISBN, page 231

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lapa.

Noun

laba (genitive , partitive )

1. blade (flat surface)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• jalalaba
• lehelaba

Further reading

• “laba”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese lavar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu laba.

Verb

laba

1. to wash

Hausa

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lābā̀ f (plural lābōbī, possessed form lābàr̃)

1. pound (unit of weight)

Hiligaynon

Adjective

labà

1. long in length

Derived terms

Indonesian

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laba

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: la‧ba

Noun

laba (first-person possessive labaku, second-person possessive labamu, third-person possessive labanya)

1. profit

   Synonym: keuntungan

2. benefit

   Synonyms: faedah, guna, manfaat

Derived terms

Compounds

Further reading

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

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese lavar.

Verb

laba

1. to wash

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lapa.

Noun

laba

1. blade (a flat surface)

Latin

Verb

labā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of labō

References

• 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)

Latvian

Adjective

laba

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

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit लाभ (lābha, “profit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laba/
• Rhymes: -ba, -a

Noun

laba (plural laba-laba, informal 1st possessive labaku, 2nd possessive labamu, 3rd possessive labanya)

1. profit

   Synonym: keuntungan

2. benefit

   Synonyms: faedah, guna, manfaat

Derived terms

Masbatenyo

Noun

labà

1. length

Northern Qiang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lapa/

Noun

laba

1. flower

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese lavar and Spanish lavar and Kabuverdianu laba.

Verb

laba

1. to wash

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.ba/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: la‧ba

Noun

laba f

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

   Synonyms: fajrant, wolne

Declension

Further reading

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

laba f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of labă

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *ɬa(a)ma. Cognate to Afar nammay and Oromo lama.

Numeral

laba

1. two

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

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

Pronoun

laba

1. these; class 2 proximal demonstrative.

Swazi

Etymology 1

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

Pronoun

laba

1. these; class 2 proximal demonstrative.

Etymology 2

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

Pronoun

laba

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

Etymology 3

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

Pronoun

laba

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

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish lavar.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

labá (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜊ)

1. washing of clothes; laundering

   Synonyms: paglalaba, (obsolete) pipi

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish lava or English lava.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

laba (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜊ)

1. lava

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈbaʔ/, (growth; increase)

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

Noun

labà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜊ)

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

Anagrams

• laab, bala

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lapa.

Noun

laba

1. (clarification of this definition is needed) foot

Inflection

References

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

Yoruba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /là.bà/

Noun

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.

Zulu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈláɓa/

Pronoun

laba

1. these; class 2 proximal demonstrative.

Inflection

References

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