lab

See also: Lab, LAB, láb, lǟb, and Lab.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læb/

  • Audio (UK)

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• 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.

   I dropped my mixture while doing my lab, so I had to start over.

Synonyms

(laboratory):

• laboratory

Derived terms

• lab coat
• lab rat

Translations

laboratory — see laboratory

Etymology 2

Noun

lab (plural labs)

1. (colloquial) A Labrador retriever.

Translations

Labrador retriever

• Finnish: labbis (fi), labukka, labradori

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

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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 *labanьja < *olbanьja, rendering the native pre-Albanian name of the country; Albania, Ἀλβανία (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

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Danish

Etymology

Cognate of Swedish labb (“paw”).

Noun

lab c (singular definite labben, plural indefinite labber)

1. paw

Inflection

Declension of lab

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lab	labben	labber	labberne
genitive	labs	labbens	labbers	labbernes

Verb

lab

1. imperative of labbe

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• labo

Etymology

Short for laboratorium

Pronunciation

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Noun

lab n (plural labs, diminutive labje n)

1. (Netherlands) lab

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Spanish

Noun

lab m (plural labs)

1. lab (laboratory)

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Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang, Shuangqiao) IPA^(key): /laːp˧/
• Tone numbers: lab⁸
• Hyphenation: lab

Etymology 1

From Chinese 蠟 (MC lɑp̚, “wax; candle”).

Noun

lab (Sawndip forms 曪 or 腊, old orthography lab)

1. candle

Etymology 2

From Chinese 臘 (MC lɑp̚, “cured meat”).

Verb

lab (Sawndip forms 曪 or 腊, old orthography lab)

1. to cure (meat) by drying or smoking

Adjective

lab (Sawndip forms 曪 or 腊, old orthography lab)

1. cured; dried; smoked