laba

Compare Tagalog haba.

• Hyphenation: la‧ba
• IPA^(key): /ˈlabaʔ/ [ˈl̪a.baʔ]

labà (Basahan spelling ᜎᜊ)

1. length (measurement)

   Synonym: lawig

   Antonym: lipot

Borrowed from Spanish lavar. Doublet of labar.

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

labá (Basahan spelling ᜎᜊ)

1. to launder; to wash clothes

Borrowed from Spanish lava, from lavar.

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

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) (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

From Proto-Finnic *lapa.

laba (genitive laba, partitive laba)

1. blade (flat surface)

Declension of laba (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		laba	labad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	laba
genitive			labade
partitive		laba	labasid
illative		lappa labasse	labadesse
inessive		labas	labades
elative		labast	labadest
allative		labale	labadele
adessive		labal	labadel
ablative		labalt	labadelt
translative		labaks	labadeks
terminative		labani	labadeni
essive		labana	labadena
abessive		labata	labadeta
comitative		labaga	labadega

• jalalaba
• lehelaba

• “laba”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (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): [láː.bàː]

lābā̀ f (plural lābōbī, possessed form lābàr̃)

1. pound (unit of weight)

labà

1. long in length

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈlaba]
• Hyphenation: la‧ba

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

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 singular masculine
   2. nominative singular feminine

From Sanskrit लाभ (lābha, “profit”).

• IPA^(key): /laba/
• Rhymes: -ba, -a

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

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): [ˈla.ba]

laba f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of labă

Somali cardinal numbers

<  1	2	3  >
Cardinal : laba     Ordinal : labaad

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

laba

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.

(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. 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/ [lɐˈba]
• 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/ [ˈlaː.bɐ]
• 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/ [lɐˈbaʔ] (“growth, increase; big profit; usury”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -aʔ
  • IPA^(key): /ˈlabaʔ/ [ˈlaː.bɐʔ] (“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

Inflection of laba (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	laba
genitive sing.	laban
partitive sing.	labad
partitive plur.	laboid
	singular	plural
nominative	laba	labad
accusative	laban	labad
genitive	laban	laboiden
partitive	labad	laboid
essive-instructive	laban	laboin
translative	labaks	laboikš
inessive	labas	laboiš
elative	labaspäi	laboišpäi
illative	labaha	laboihe
adessive	labal	laboil
ablative	labalpäi	laboilpäi
allative	labale	laboile
abessive	labata	laboita
comitative	labanke	laboidenke
prolative	labadme	laboidme
approximative I	labanno	laboidenno
approximative II	labannoks	laboidennoks
egressive	labannopäi	laboidennopäi
terminative I	labahasai	laboihesai
terminative II	labalesai	laboilesai
terminative III	labassai	—
additive I	labahapäi	laboihepäi
additive II	labalepäi	laboilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “стопа, ступня”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], 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.

Stem -lába
Full form	lába
Locative	kulaba
Full form	lába
Locative	kulaba
Copulative	yilaba
Possessive forms
	Modifier	Substantive
Class 1	walaba	owalaba
Class 2	balaba	abalaba
Class 3	walaba	owalaba
Class 4	yalaba	eyalaba
Class 5	lalaba	elalaba
Class 6	alaba	awalaba
Class 7	salaba	esalaba
Class 8	zalaba	ezalaba
Class 9	yalaba	eyalaba
Class 10	zalaba	ezalaba
Class 11	lwalaba	olwalaba
Class 14	balaba	obalaba
Class 15	kwalaba	okwalaba
Class 17	kwalaba	okwalaba

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