different between tav vs lav

English

Noun

tav (plural tavs)

1. Alternative form of taw (Semitic letter)

Anagrams

• ATV, TVA, VAT, VTA, vat, vta

Danish

Alternative forms

• tiede

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tav?], [?t??w?]

Verb

tav

1. past tense of tie

Finnish

Noun

tav

1. taw (twenty-second letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

Declension

Anagrams

• -vat

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *t?pás, from Proto-Indo-European *tep-. Cognate with Sanskrit ???? (tapas, “heat, fire”), Persian ?????? (?ft?b, “sun”), Persian ???? (tâb, “heat, warmth”), Latin tepidus (“warm”), Russian ?????? (tjóplyj, “warm”), Old Armenian ??? (tap, “heat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??v/

Noun

tav f (Arabic spelling ????)

1. sun, sunlight

   Synonym: roj

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “tav”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læv/
• Rhymes: -æv

Noun

lav (plural lavs)

1. (Britain, slang) Clipping of lavatory.

2. (film, informal) Clipping of lavalier.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

• lavvy

Translations

Anagrams

• AVL, Val, Vla., val

Aneityum

Etymology

Borrowed from Bislama lav (“to laugh”).

Verb

lav

1. to laugh

References

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

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lágr, from Proto-Germanic *l?gaz, cognate with Norwegian låg, Swedish låg. English low is borrowed from Old Norse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la??v/, [?læ??], [?læw?]

Adjective

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

1. low

Inflection

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?law(?)/, [?l?w], [?l?w?]

Noun

lav n (singular definite lavet, plural indefinite lav)

1. guild

Inflection

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?law/, [?l?w]

Noun

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

1. lichen

Inflection

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la??v/, [?læ??], [?læw?]

Verb

lav

1. imperative of lave

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lágr and Danish lav

Alternative forms

• låg (Nynorsk also)

Adjective

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

1. low

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Related to the verb lave

Noun

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

References

• “lav” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb lave

Noun

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

1. lichen

References

• “lav” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?v?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lâ?/

Noun

l?v m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

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

Declension

Derived terms

Swedish

Noun

lav c

1. lichen
2. bench in sauna

Declension

Synonyms

• bastulav
• lave

Derived terms

• lavskrika

Anagrams

• alv, val

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English love.

Noun

lav

1. love

Volapük

Noun

lav (nominative plural lavs)

1. wash, washing (the action or activity)

Declension

Derived terms

• lavön
• lavöp