lava

From Italian, from Neapolitan lava (“lava”, but also “downpour overflowing the streets”). Likely in the sense of “landslide, torrent” from Latin labes (“fall”), compare labina (“avalanche, landslide”). A supposed relation with lavare (“to wash”) is now widely discredited. Neither is there probably any relation with Arabic لابة‎ (lāba, “black volcanic rock”).

• (US, UK) enPR: läʹvə, IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːvə/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːvə/, /ˈlævə/
• Homophone: larva (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -ɑːvə

lava (countable and uncountable, plural lavas)

1. The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides.
2. (informal, proscribed) Magma.
3. A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava.

   lava:  

Geologists make a distinction between magma (molten rock underground) and lava (molten rock on the surface).

• cryolava, pillow lava

• lava flow

• lava lamp
• lava millstone
• lava ware

• aa
• pahoehoe

• Alva, Vaal, aval

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lava (definite accusative lavanı, plural lavalar)

1. lava

• “lava” in Obastan.com.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈla.və/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈla.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈla.va/

lava f (plural laves)

1. lava

• “lava” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Italian lava.

lava

1. lava

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lava.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlava]

lava f

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of lavice (“bench”).

• lavice
• lávka

• lava in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• lava in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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• Hyphenation: la‧va

lava c (uncountable)

1. lava

• “lava” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

From Proto-Finnic *lava, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lā́ˀwāˀ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑvɑ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑvɑ
• Hyphenation: la‧va

lava (genitive lava, partitive lava)

1. stage

• lava in Sõnaveeb
• lava in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

From Proto-Finnic *lava (compare Estonian lava, Livonian lovā, Veps lava), borrowed from Proto-Baltic *lā́ˀwāˀ (compare Latvian lāva, Lithuanian lova).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑʋɑ/, [ˈlɑʋɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑʋɑ
• Syllabification^(key): la‧va

lava

1. platform; podium (a flat, raised surface)

   Synonyms: koroke, (rare) estradi

2. bed (platform of a truck or other vehicle that supports the load)
3. stage (in a theatre, a concert hall or such)

   Synonyms: estradi, näyttämö

4. Clipping of tanssilava.
5. plant bed, raised bed (raised, framed platform for planting)

   Synonym: kasvilava

6. pallet (transport pallet, also as a unit)

   Synonym: kuormalava

7. (colloquial) case (pack of usually 24 cans of beer or other drink)

• avolava
• kuormalava
• lavakuorma-auto
• lavashow
• lavasäteily
• tanssilava

• vala

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lava

1. third-person singular past historic of laver

• aval

lava f (plural lavas)

1. lava

• “lava” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.va/
• Rhymes: -ava
• Hyphenation: là‧va

lava f (plural lave)

1. lava

• lavico

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lava

1. inflection of lavare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Neapolitan lava or Italian lava.

lava f (genitive lavae); first declension

1. (New Latin) lava

   Synonym: rhyax

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lavā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of lavō

From Italian lava (Neapolitan dialect).

lava m (definite singular lavaen, indefinite plural lavaer, definite plural lavaene)

1. (geology) lava

• lavastrøm

• lavene

lava m or n

1. definite neuter plural of lav

• “lava” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Italian lava (Neapolitan dialect).

lava m (definite singular lavaen, indefinite plural lavaer, definite plural lavaene)

1. (geology) lava

lava n

1. definite plural of lav

• “lava” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
• Hyphenation: la‧va

From Neapolitan lava (“a torrent of rain which washed the streets”), from Latin lavō (“to wash”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowh₃-.

lava f (plural lavas)

1. lava (melted rock)

• magma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lava

1. inflection of lavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): [ˈlava]

lava f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of lavă

láva f (Cyrillic spelling ла́ва)

1. (geology) lava

From Neapolitan lava (“lava”), from lavare (“to wash”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaba/ [ˈla.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: la‧va

lava f (uncountable)

1. lava
2. washing

lava

1. inflection of lavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “lava”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from English larva.

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lava (n class, plural lava)

1. larva

lava c

1. lava

• lavalampa

• Alva

From Proto-Polynesian *lawa. Cognates include Hawaiian lawa and Samoan lava.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.va/
• Hyphenation: la‧va

lava

1. (stative) to be enough

lava

1. Expresses exclusiveness of the preceding word; just, only
2. Intensifies the preceding word; just (the same), right (now)
3. Forms a reflexive from the preceding personal pronoun; -self

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 181

lava

1. to want

From Proto-Finnic *lava.

lava

1. floor
2. platform

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “площадка, пол, помост”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika