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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take, grasp”) + -ή (-ḗ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /la.bɛ̌ː/ → /laˈβi/ → /laˈvi/
Noun
λᾰβή • (labḗ) f (genitive λᾰβῆς); first declension
- handle, haft
- (as a pugilistic term) grip, hold
- (figuratively) handle, occasion
- attack of fever
- taking, accepting
- turn of a bandage
- (anatomy, in the plural) insertions, attachments of muscles
- eye of a needle
- Synonym: κύαρ (kúar)
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Greek
Noun
λαβή • (laví) f (plural λαβές)
- handle
- hilt
- grip, handgrip, handhold, grasp
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