lav

lav

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

• IPA^(key): /læv/

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• Rhymes: -æv

lav (plural lavs)

1. (Britain, 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.

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

• 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]

lav f

1. genitive plural of lava

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

From Old Norse lag (“layer”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą. Doublet of lag 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

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

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /lâʋ/

lȁv m (Cyrillic spelling ла̏в)

1. lion (mammal)
2. (astronomy, astrology) Leo

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

• bastulav
• lave

• 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 (nominative plural lavs)

1. wash, washing (the action or activity)

• lavön
• lavöp