las

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɑːz/
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  • Rhymes: -ɑːz

Noun

las

  1. plural of la

Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin illas (those ones).

Pronoun

las

  1. them (feminine direct object)

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin laxō.

Verb

las first-singular present indicative

  1. Alternative form of alas

Catalan

Etymology 1

Latinizing modification of the popular form llas, from Old Catalan las, from Latin lassus.

Alternative forms

Adjective

las (feminine lassa, masculine plural lassos, feminine plural lasses)

  1. weary, tired

References

  • “las” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Further reading

Etymology 2

Noun

las

  1. plural of la

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German las (patch, scrap).

Noun

las c (singular definite lasen, plural indefinite laser)

  1. rag
  2. shred

Declension

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

las c (plural lassen, diminutive lasje n)

  1. joint, weld

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: las
  • Indonesian: las

Verb

las

  1. singular past indicative of lezen
  2. inflection of lassen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Anagrams

Estonian

Alternative forms

Verb

las

  1. second-person singular imperative of laskma
    Las ma söön.
    Let me eat.

Usage notes

lase governs the adessive (verb in the infinitive), las governs the nominative (verb in corresponding person, in the present).

Faroese

Verb

las

  1. first-person plural past indicative of lesa
  2. third-person plural past indicative of lesa

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French las, from Latin lassus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

las (feminine lasse, masculine plural las, feminine plural lasses)

  1. weary, tired
    Synonyms: épuisé, fatigué
    • 1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis:
      La solitude me pèse. J’aimerais à avoir un ami, un véritable ami, ou bien une maîtresse à qui je confierais mes peines. Quand on erre, toute une journée, sans parler, on se sent las, le soir dans sa chambre.
      Loneliness weighs heavily on me. I would like to have a friend, a true friend, or a lover to whom I could confide my sorrow. When one wanders all day without speaking to anybody, one feels weary in one's bedroom at night.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Clipping of hélas.

Pronunciation

Interjection

las

  1. (dated) alas
    Synonym: hélas

Further reading

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

Pronoun

las f pl (feminine plural las, masculine singular lo, masculine plural los)

  1. Alternative form of la (the, feminine plural)
Usage notes

The l- forms of article are compulsorily used after the preposition por and adverb u. It is optional when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, after unstressed pronouns nos, vos and lles (when they are enclitc) of ambos, entrambos, todos, tras and copulative conjunction (e mais and tonic pronouns vós and nós followed by a numerical precision).

Etymology 2

Pronoun

las f pl (accusative)

  1. Alternative form of la (them, feminine plural)
Usage notes

The l- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, and are suffixed to the preceding word.

Etymology 3

Noun

las m pl

  1. plural of la

German

Pronunciation

Verb

las

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of lesen

Gothic

Romanization

las

  1. Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐍃

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch las (welding, joint).

Pronunciation

Noun

las (first-person possessive lasku, second-person possessive lasmu, third-person possessive lasnya)

  1. weld.

Derived terms

Further reading

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

las (present analytic lasann, future analytic lasfaidh, verbal noun lasadh, past participle lasta)

  1. (transitive) to light (start (a fire); illuminate)
  2. (intransitive) to blaze (shine like a flame)

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 13

Further reading

Kashubian

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěsъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlas/
  • Rhymes: -as
  • Syllabification: las

Noun

las m inan (diminutive lôsk, related adjective lasowi or lasny)

  1. forest, woods (dense uncultivated tract of trees)

Derived terms

nouns
adjectives
nouns

Further reading

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “las”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 90
  • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “las”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “las”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
  • las”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Ladino

Article

las (singular la, masculine los, Hebrew spelling לאס)

  1. the (feminine plural)

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

Inherited from French lasse (weary, tired).

Pronunciation

Adjective

las

  1. tired
    Synonyms: dormétik, épwizé, fatigé, fourbu, harasé

Middle Dutch

Verb

las

  1. first/third-person singular past indicative of lēsen

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French las, from the verb lacier (to lace).

Pronunciation

Noun

las (plural lass)

  1. lace

Descendants

References

Mirandese

Article

las f pl (singular la, masculine l, masculine plural ls)

  1. the
    las bacas de l fazendeiro
    the cows of the farmer

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

las

  1. past of lesa
    Det var forfattaren sjølv som las.
    It was the author himself who was reading.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin illās.

Pronunciation

Article

las (singular la, masculine lo, masculine plural los)

  1. the; feminine plural definite article

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

See a las

Interjection

las !

  1. alas

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin illās.

Article

las (singular la)

  1. the; feminine plural definite article

Descendants

Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lě̑sъ. First attested in the second half of the 13th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /lʲas/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /lʲas/

Noun

las m animacy unattested (diminutive lasek, related adjective leśny)

  1. (attested in Lesser Poland, Greater Poland) forest, woods (dense uncultivated tract of trees)
    • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 49, 11:
      Moia sø wszistka zwerzøta lassow (omnes ferae silvarum)
      [Moja są wszystka źwierzęta lasow (omnes ferae silvarum)]
    • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 77r:
      Lucus walt silua nemus idem czyemny lasz
      [Lucus walt silua nemus idem ciemny las]
    • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 125v:
      Silua eyn walt lyąsz
      [Silua eyn walt las]

Derived terms

nouns
nouns

Descendants

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “las”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “las”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “las”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “las”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “las”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
  • Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “las”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Phalura

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

las (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling لس)

  1. it
  2. him
  3. her (dist acc)

Alternative forms

References

  • Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “las”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Polabian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German las.

Pronunciation

Noun

las m ?

  1. salmon

References

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    Polański, Kazimierz (1971) “las”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 2 (ďüzd – ľotü), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 314
  • Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “las”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 87
  • Olesch, Reinhold (1962) “Las”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 493

Polish

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las

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish las.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

las m inan (diminutive lasek, related adjective leśny or lasowy)

  1. forest, woods (dense uncultivated tract of trees)
    Synonym: (dialectal) bór
  2. forest (dense collection or amount)
  3. forest (large number or quantity of something that makes it difficult to orient oneself and act properly)

Usage notes

Both bór and las have been used to a similar degree in the Kuyavian dialect.

Declension

Derived terms

adjectives
adverbs
nouns
proverbs
verbs
verbs
adjectives
nouns

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), las is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 24 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 3 times in essays, 48 times in fiction, and 25 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 109 times, making it the 566th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “las”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 212

Further reading

  • las in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • las in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • las in PWN's encyclopedia
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “las”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • LAS”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 19.12.2018
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “las”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “las”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “las”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 686
  • las in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
  • Oskar Kolberg (1867) “bór”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 268

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

Pronoun

las

  1. Alternative form of as (third-person feminine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic and mesoclitic following a verb form ending in a consonant (-z, -r and -s, but not -m); the consonant is elided and the preceding vowel takes an accent if necessary

Romanian

Verb

las

  1. inflection of lăsa:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *volsь.

Noun

las f (Cyrillic spelling лас)

  1. (Kajkavian) hair
    Synonym: vlas

Silesian

Alternative forms

  • les (Southern Silesian)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish las.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlas/
  • Rhymes: -as
  • Syllabification: las

Noun

las m inan (related adjective leśny)

  1. forest, woods (dense uncultivated tract of trees)
    Synonyms: (Cieszyn) dōmbrowa, gŏj

Declension

Further reading

  • las in dykcjonorz.eu
  • las in silling.org

Slovene

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Alternative forms

  • laſ (Bohorič alphabet)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *volsь. Compare with obsolete vlas.

Pronunciation

Noun

lȃs m inan or f

  1. (anatomy) hair on top of head
  2. (obsolete, dialectal) hair (anywhere)
    • 2019 March 5, “Faun je ... Izvor in pomen besede "faun"”, in Punto Marinero:
      Ta kratkodobna, prekrita z lasjo bitje je bila zelo priljubljena med prebivalci rimskih vasi.
      This short-lived being covered with hair was very popular between the inhabitants of Roman villages.
  3. nap, pile (The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile)
  4. (agriculture) corn silk

Usage notes

Unlike in English, the singular is reserved only for a single hair. For hair as a collection of many hairs, the plural is used. The feminine form is chiefly western dialects and is also commonly used as an uncountable noun (see quotation under sense 2).

Declension

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First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , long mixed accent, ending -u in genitive singular , ending -je in nominative plural , null ending in genitive dual/plural , special endings in plural from former i-stem declension , special accent changes
nom. sing. lȃs
gen. sing. lasȗ
singular dual plural
nominative
imenovȃlnik
lȃs lȃsa lasjẹ̑
genitive
rodȋlnik
lasȗ lás lás
dative
dajȃlnik
lȃsu, lȃsi lȃsoma, lȃsama lasẹ̑m
accusative
tožȋlnik
lȃs lȃsa lasẹ̑, lȃse+prep.
locative
mẹ̑stnik
lȃsu, lȃsi lasẹ́h lasẹ́h
instrumental
orọ̑dnik
lȃsom lȃsoma, lȃsama lasmí
(vocative)
(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)
lȃs lȃsa lasjẹ̑


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First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent, special accent changes
nom. sing. lȃs
gen. sing. lȃsa
singular dual plural
nominative
imenovȃlnik
lȃs lȃsa lási
genitive
rodȋlnik
lȃsa lás lás
dative
dajȃlnik
lȃsu, lȃsi lȃsoma, lȃsama lásom
accusative
tožȋlnik
lȃs lȃsa láse
locative
mẹ̑stnik
lȃsu, lȃsi lásih, lásah lásih, lásah
instrumental
orọ̑dnik
lȃsom lȃsoma, lȃsama lási
(vocative)
(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)
lȃs lȃsa lási



  • chiefly western dialects, often uncountable
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Second feminine declension (i-stem) , long mixed accent
nom. sing. lȃs
gen. sing. lasȋ
singular dual plural
nominative
imenovȃlnik
lȃs lasȋ lasȋ
genitive
rodȋlnik
lasȋ lasī lasī
dative
dajȃlnik
lási lasẹ̄ma lasẹ̄m
accusative
tožȋlnik
lȃs lasȋ lasȋ
locative
mẹ̑stnik
lási lasẹ́h lasẹ́h
instrumental
orọ̑dnik
lasjọ́ lasẹ̄ma lasmí
(vocative)
(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)
lȃs lasȋ lasȋ

Synonyms

  • (sense 1)
  • (sense 2)

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • las”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • las”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references

Slovincian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěsъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlas/
  • Rhymes: -as
  • Syllabification: las

Noun

las m inan (related adjective lasny)

  1. forest, woods (dense uncultivated tract of trees)

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

Article

las f pl

  1. feminine plural definite article; the

Etymology 2

Pronoun

las f pl

  1. accusative of ellas; them
  2. accusative of ustedes (when referring to more than one woman); you all (formal)
  3. feminine plural pronoun
    las que no hablan
    those (women) who do not speak

Etymology 3

Noun

las m pl

  1. plural of la

See also

Further reading

Welsh

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

las

  1. Soft mutation of glas.

Etymology 2

From English lace.

Noun

las f (plural lasau or lasiau or lasys, singulative lasen or lasyn)

  1. lace

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “las”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies