lava

See also: Lava, láva, and lavâ

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Italian lava (“lava”), originally, in Naples, a torrent of rain overflowing the streets, from lavare (“to wash”). See etymology for the English verb lave.

Pronunciation

• (US), (UK) enPR: läʹvə, IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːvə/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːvə/, /ˈlævə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːvə

Noun

lava (countable and uncountable, plural lavas)

1. The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides.
2. (informal, proscribed) Magma.

Usage notes

Geologists make a distinction between magma (molten rock underground) and lava (molten rock on the surface).

Derived terms

• lava lamp
• lava millstone
• lava ware

Translations

melted rock

• Arabic: حمم بركانية pl (Húmam burkaníyya)
• Armenian: լավա (lava)
• Bulgarian: лава f (láva)
• Catalan: lava (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熔岩 (zh) (róngyán)

• Czech: láva (cs) f
• Danish: lava c
• Dutch: lava (nl) f
• Esperanto: lafo
• Estonian: laava
• Finnish: laava (fi)
• French: lave (fr) f
• Friulian: lave f
• Galician: lava (gl) f
• Georgian: ლავა (lava)
• German: Lava (de) f
• Greek: λάβα (el) f (láva)
• Hawaiian: ʻaʻā
• Hebrew: לבה f
• Hungarian: láva (hu)
• Icelandic: hraun (is)
• Indonesian: lava (id)
• Italian: lava (it) f
• Japanese: 溶岩 (ようがん, yōgan), ラヴァ (rava)
• Korean: 용암 (ko) (yong-am)
• Latin: lava f
• Latvian: lava
• Lithuanian: lava

• Low German: Lava
• Luxembourgish: Lava
• Malay: lava
• Maori: rangitoto, tahepuia
• Norwegian: lava (no)
• Persian: گدازه (fa)
• Polish: lawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: lava (pt) f
• Romanian: lavă (ro)
• Russian: лава (ru) f (láva)
• Samoan: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лава f

  Roman: lava f

• Sicilian: lava f
• Slovak: láva f
• Spanish: lava (es) f
• Swahili: lava
• Swedish: lava (sv) c
• Tahitian: please add this translation if you can
• Tamil: லாவா (lāvā)
• Telugu: లావా (lāvā)
• Thai: หินหลอมเหลว (hĭn lŏm lĕo)
• Tongan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: lav (tr)
• Ukrainian: лава f (láva)
• Vietnamese: lava (vi), dung nham (熔岩)
• Volapük: lavat (vo)

magma — see magma

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Translations to be checked

• Maori: rangitoto

See also

• aa
• pahoehoe

Anagrams

• aval

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Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Italian lava.

Noun

lava

1. lava

Declension

Declension of lava

nominative	lava
genitive	lavanıñ
dative	lavağa
accusative	lavanı
locative	lavada
ablative	lavadan

References

• V. A. Mirjejev, S. M. Usejinov (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian–Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: la‧va

Noun

lava c (uncountable)

1. lava

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Finnish

Noun

lava

1. bed (platform of a truck or other vehicle that supports the load)
2. platform (raised stage for speeches etc.)
3. stage (in a theatre etc.)

Declension

Declension of lava (Kotus type 9/kala)

		singular	plural
nominative		lava	lavat
accusative	zero?	lava	lavat
	normal	lavan
genitive		lavan	lavojen lavainrare
partitive		lavaa	lavoja
inessive		lavassa	lavoissa
elative		lavasta	lavoista
illative		lavaan	lavoihin
adessive		lavalla	lavoilla
ablative		lavalta	lavoilta
allative		lavalle	lavoille
essive		lavana	lavoina
translative		lavaksi	lavoiksi
instructive		—	lavoin
abessive		lavatta	lavoitta
comitative		—	lavoineen

Compounds

• avolava
• kuormalava
• lavakuorma-auto
• lavashow
• lavasäteily
• tanssilava

Anagrams

• vala

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French

Verb

lava

1. third-person singular past historic of laver

Anagrams

• aval

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Galician

Noun

lava f (plural lavas)

1. lava

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Italian

Verb

lava

1. third-person singular present indicative of lavare
2. second-person singular imperative of lavare

Noun

lava f (plural lave)

1. lava

Related terms

• lavico

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Latin

Verb

lavā

1. first-person singular present active imperative of lavō

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Portuguese

Wikipedia ^pt

lava

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈla.va/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈla.vɐ/
• Hyphenation: la‧va

Etymology 1

From Italian (Neapolitan or Calabrese dialect), lava (“a torrent of rain which washed the streets”), from Latin lavō (“I wash”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowh₃-

Noun

lava f (plural lavas)

1. lava (melted rock)

Related terms

• magma

Etymology 2

Verb

lava

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of lavar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of lavar

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

láva f (Cyrillic spelling ла́ва)

1. (geology) lava

Declension

    declension of lava

	singular	plural
nominative	lava	lave
genitive	lave	lava
dative	lavi	lavama
accusative	lavu	lave
vocative	lavo	lave
locative	lavi	lavama
instrumental	lavom	lavama

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Spanish

Noun

lava f (plural lavas)

1. lava
2. washing

Verb

lava

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of lavar.