lav

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æv

Noun

lav (plural lavs)

1. (UK, slang) Lavatory.

   Please miss, Johnny wants to go to the lav.

Synonyms

• (lavatory):
  • (standard): lavatory, toilet
  • (colloquial/slang): little boy's room, little girl's room, loo, smallest room
  • (coarse/taboo slang): bog, crapper, shithouse, shitter

Translations

slang: toilet

• Finnish: vessa (fi)
• French: petit coin (fr) m

• Spanish: retrete (es) m

Anagrams

• Val

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Danish

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lágr (whence also English low and Norwegian bokmål låg/lav)

Adjective

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

1. low

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lag (“layer”) (plural lǫg (“legal”)).

Noun

Wikipedia ^da

lav n (singular definite lavet, plural indefinite lav)

1. guild

Inflection

    Inflection of lav

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	lav	lavet	lav	lavene
genitive	lavs	lavets	lavs	lavenes

Etymology 3

From Old Norse lafa (“to dangle”)

Noun

Wikipedia ^da

lav c (singular definite laven, plural indefinite laver)

or

lav n (singular definite lavet, plural indefinite laver)

1. lichen

Inflection

    Inflection of lav

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	lav	laven	laver	laverne
genitive	lavs	lavens	lavers	lavernes

    Inflection of lav

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	lav	lavet	laver	laverne
genitive	lavs	lavets	lavers	lavernes

Verb

lav

1. imperative of lave

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lьvъ, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Noun

lȁv m (Cyrillic spelling ла̏в)

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

Declension

    declension of lav

	singular	plural
nominative	lȁv	lȁvovi
genitive	lȁva	lȁvōvā
dative	lȁvu	lȁvovima
accusative	lȁva	lȁvove
vocative	lȁve	lȁvovi
locative	lȁvu	lȁvovima
instrumental	lȁvom	lȁvovima

Derived terms

• làvica
• lȁvljī
• làvovskī

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Swedish

Noun

lav c

1. lichen
2. bench in sauna

Declension

Declension of lav

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lav	laven	lavar	lavarna
genitive	lavs	lavens	lavars	lavarnas

Synonyms

• bastulav
• lave

Derived terms

• lavskrika