different between lab vs lae

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læb/
• Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

Noun

lab (plural labs)

1. (colloquial) A laboratory.
   • 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth (page 23)

     A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.

2. (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.

Derived terms

• lab coat
• lab rat

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

lab (plural labs)

1. (colloquial) A Labrador retriever.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

lab (plural labs)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (obsolete) A telltale; a blabber.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Alb., BAL, BLA, abl., alb

Albanian

Etymology

• From lëpe, lëbozë. Historically the inhabitants of the Labëria (“the land of lab”) region. Compare Illyrian *Labeati.

• Alternatively a back-formation based on Labëri (“Laberia”), borrowed from an unattested South Slavic *laban?ja < *olban?ja, rendering the native pre-Albanian name of the country; Albania, ??????? (Albanía). However, this is doubtful.

Noun

lab m (labe, f.)

1. southern Albanian (male)

   (male person from Labëri (“land of lab”), Labëria (“the land of lab”))

Related terms

• Labëri
• Labëria
• labërisht
• Labërishtja
• arbër

References

Danish

Noun

lab c (singular definite labben, plural indefinite labber)

1. paw

Inflection

Verb

lab

1. imperative of labbe

Dutch

Alternative forms

• labo

Etymology

Short for laboratorium

Pronunciation

Noun

lab n (plural labs, diminutive labje n)

1. (Netherlands) lab

Spanish

Noun

lab m (plural labs)

1. lab (laboratory)

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /la?p?/
• Tone numbers: lab⁸
• Hyphenation: lab

Etymology 1

From Chinese ? (MC l?p?, “wax; candle”).

Noun

lab (Sawndip forms ? or ?, old orthography lab)

1. candle

Etymology 2

From Chinese ? (MC l?p?, “cured meat”).

Verb

lab (Sawndip forms ? or ?, old orthography lab)

1. to cure (meat) by drying or smoking

Adjective

lab (Sawndip forms ? or ?, old orthography lab)

1. cured; dried; smoked

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??.?/

Adjective

lae

1. attributive form of laag

Estonian

Noun

lae

1. genitive singular of lagi

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *la?e, from Proto-Oceanic *raqe, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daqih, from Proto-Austronesian *daqiS.

Noun

lae

1. (anatomy) forehead

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian, from Proto-Oceanic *raya, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daya, from Proto-Austronesian *daya.

Noun

lae

1. headland, cape, point, peninsula

Hiligaynon

Noun

láè

1. adultery

Synonyms

• láyì

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??e?/

Noun

lae m sg

1. genitive singular of lá (“day”)

Further reading

• "lae" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “lae” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “lae” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Old Irish

Noun

lae n

1. Alternative form of lá