Abbreviation of English Latvian or Latvian latviešu valoda.

lav

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Latvian.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Latvian terms

• IPA^(key): /læv/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -æv

lav (plural lavs)

1. (UK, Ireland, slang) Clipping of lavatory.

   Please, miss, I need to go to the lav.

   • Quoted in 2006, Matt Houlbrook, Queer London (page 151)

     If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look.

2. (film, informal) Clipping of lavalier microphone.

   When you’re recording interviews, it’s best to use a lav.

   Synonyms: lav mic, lav mike

• See Thesaurus:bathroom

• lavvy

• AVL, Val, Vla., val

Borrowed from Bislama lav (“to laugh”).

lav

1. to laugh

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlaf]
• Hyphenation: lav

lav f

1. genitive plural of lava

From Old Danish lagh, from Old Norse lágr, from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz, cognate with Norwegian låg, Swedish låg. English low is borrowed from Old Norse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːˀv/, [ˈlæˀʋ], [ˈlæwˀ]

lav (neuter lavt, plural and definite singular attributive lave)

1. low (all senses)

   Synonyms: lille, kort, primitiv, dæmpet

   Antonyms: dyb, høj

   Coordinate terms: snæver, tarvelig, slet

From Old Norse lag (“layer”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą. Doublet of lag, [Term?], and layer (the Old Norse plural lǫg lives on in Danish lov and English law).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaw(ˀ)/, [ˈlɑw], [ˈlɑwˀ]

lav n (singular definite lavet, plural indefinite lav)

1. guild

   Synonym: forening

• nouns: bådelav, ejerlav, håndværkerlav, vandrelav, vandrerlav, vindmøllelav, vejlav

• gilde

Borrowed from Norwegian lav, derived from the verb Old Norse lafa (“to dangle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaw/, [ˈlɑw]

lav c or n (singular definite laven or lavet, plural indefinite laver)

1. lichen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːˀv/, [ˈlæˀʋ], [ˈlæwˀ]

lav

1. imperative of lave

From Danish lav.

• låg (Nynorsk also)

lav (neuter singular lavt, definite singular and plural lave, comparative lavere, indefinite superlative lavest, definite superlative laveste)

1. low

From Danish lav, itself a borrowing from Norwegian lav. Related to the verb lave.

lav m (definite singular laven, indefinite plural laver, definite plural lavene)
lav n (definite singular lavet, indefinite plural laver, definite plural lava or lavene)

1. lichen

• “lav” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From the verb lava (“to dangle”), from Old Norse lafa. Cognate with Norn lav, Icelandic laf and Swedish lav.

lav n (definite singular lavet, indefinite plural lav, definite plural lava)

1. lichen
2. something that hangs down
   1. a cobweb that dangles from the roof
   2. rain and dew drops in a tree
   3. ash from leaves or needles that hangs on burnt twigs

• “lav” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lьvъ, from a Germanic language.

• IPA^(key): /lâʋ/

lȁv m anim (Cyrillic spelling ла̏в)

1. lion (mammal)
2. (astronomy, astrology) Leo
3. (soccer, journalism, chiefly in plural) Olympique Lyonnais player
4. (handball, journalism, chiefly in plural) member of the Montenegro men's national handball team

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• IPA^(key): /lɑːv/
• Rhymes: -ɑːv

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk lav

lav c

1. lichen

• lavskrika
• varglav

From Old Swedish lavi, possibly from the root of loge (“kind of barn”).

The other version derives it to Slavic origins, through Finnish. Ultimately from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lā́ˀwāˀ. Cognate with modern Russian лавка (lavka) and modern Finnish lava.

lav c

1. bench in sauna

   Synonyms: bastulav, lave

• “lav”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “lav”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “lav”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• alv, val

From English love.

lav

1. love

Borrowed from French lave

• IPA^(key): /lʲav/, /ɫav/

lav (definite accusative lavı, plural lavlar)

1. lava

lav (genitive lava, plural lavs)

1. wash, washing (the action or activity)

• lavacin
• lavön
• lavöp

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