dav

See also: DAV, Dav, daV, and d.a.v.

Translingual

Symbol

dav

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Taita.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Taita terms

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdaf]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: dav
• Rhymes: -af

Etymology 1

Related to Russian да́вка (dávka), дави́ть (davítʹ). Omitting several steps, from Proto-Slavic *daviti, whence also Czech dávit (which, however, had lost the meaning to press).

Compare typologically Polish ciżba, ścisk (<~ ciskać, akin to ти́скать (tískatʹ)); Polish tłok, Russian толчея́ (tolčejá) (akin to толка́ть (tolkátʹ)); English throng (<<~ Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną); English crowd. Also note Russian гурьба́ (gurʹbá) (related to Serbo-Croatian гурати (per Anikin uncertain)).

Noun

dav m inan

1. crowd (group of people)

   On zmizel v davu. ― He vanished into the crowd.

Declension

Declension of dav (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	dav	davy
genitive	davu	davů
dative	davu	davům
accusative	dav	davy
vocative	dave	davy
locative	davu	davech
instrumental	davem	davy

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dav

1. second-person singular imperative of dávit

Verb

dav

1. masculine singular past transgressive of dát

Further reading

• “dav”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “dav”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “dav”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
• “dav”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2026, slovnikcestiny.cz

Danish

Etymology

Clipping of goddag (“good day”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /davˀ/, [ˈd̥ɑwˀ]

Interjection

dav

1. (colloquial) hello

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dav/, [ˈdau̯]
• Rhymes: -av

Noun

dav m inan (relational adjective davový)

1. crowd, mob

Declension

Declension of dav
(pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	dav	davy
genitive	davu	davov
dative	davu	davom
accusative	dav	davy
locative	dave	davoch
instrumental	davom	davmi

Further reading

• “dav”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da˧˦/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *qlaŋˣ (“hawk, eagle”). Cognate with Iu Mien jaangv.

Noun

dav

1. hawk.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *Kʷi̯aŋX (“wide”), from Chinese 廣 / 广. Cognate with Iu Mien jangv. Compare Thai กว้าง (gwâang) and Lao ກວ້າງ (kuāng).

Adjective

dav

1. broad; wide.

Etymology 3

Adjective

dav

1. lonely; cheerless (of a house).

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.