lave

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Verb 1.2.1.1 Related terms 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Anagrams 2 Danish 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Adjective 2.3 Verb 3 French 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun 3.3 Verb form 3.4 Anagrams 4 Italian 4.1 Noun 5 Scots 5.1 Noun 6 Spanish 6.1 Verb 7 Swedish 7.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /leɪv/
• Rhymes: -eɪv

[edit] Etymology 1

From Latin lavare.

[edit] Verb

to lave (third-person singular simple present laves, present participle laving, simple past and past participle laved)

1. (archaic) To wash.
   • 1789, William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from Fourteen Sonnets, 1789.

     the tranquil tide, / That laves the pebbled shore.

   • 2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, London: Picador, 2007, p. 38.

     The boy walked out and squatted and laved up the dark water.

[edit] Related terms

lather launder laundry

lavender lavish

[edit] Etymology 2

Old English lāf.

[edit] Noun

lave (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The remainder; what is left.
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 12.

     Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aelv
• avel
• eval
• leva
• vale
• veal
• vela, Vela

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /laːvə/, [ˈlæːvə]

[edit] Adjective

lave

1. Definite of lav.
2. Plural of lav.

[edit] Verb

lave (imperative lav, infinitive at lave, present tense laver, past tense lavede, past participle har lavet)

1. make, create, construct, produce
2. cook, prepare
3. do
4. repair, mend, fix

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /lav/, SAMPA: /lav/

[edit] Noun

lave f

1. lava

[edit] Verb form

lave

1. first-, third-person singular indicative present of laver
2. first-, third-person singular subjunctive present of laver
3. second-person singular imperative of laver

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aelv
• leva

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

lave f.

1. Plural form of lava.

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[edit] Scots

[edit] Noun

lave

1. (archaic) rest

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Verb

lave (infinitive: lavar)

1. formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of lavar.
2. first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lavar.
3. formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lavar.
4. third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of lavar.

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Noun

lave c

1. towerlike building atop a mine shaft