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/, [l̪ʌˈba]

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 [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. blade (flat surface)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• 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

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.

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

laba

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

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

laba

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

Borrowed from Spanish lavar.

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

labá (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜊ)

1. washing of clothes; laundering

   Synonyms: paglalaba, (obsolete) pipi

Borrowed from Spanish lava or English lava.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaba/, [ˈla.bɐ]
• Hyphenation: 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/ [ˈla.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)

• laab, bala

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 [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, 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)”