lava

See also: Lava, láva, lavá, lavâ, låvå, and lava-

English

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/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːvə/, /ˈlævə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːvə

Noun

lava (countable and uncountable, plural lavas)

1. The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides.
2. (informal, proscribed) Magma.
3. A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava.

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Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• lava flow

Related terms

• lava lamp
• lava millstone
• lava ware

Translations

molten rock

• Arabic: حُمَم بُرْكَانِيَّة‎‎ pl (ḥumam burkāniyya), لَابَة‎‎ f (lāba)
• Armenian: լավա (hy) (lava)
• Basque: laba
• Bulgarian: лава f (láva)
• Catalan: lava (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熔岩 (zh) (róngyán)

• Czech: láva (cs) f
• Danish: lava (da) c
• Dutch: lava (nl) f
• Esperanto: lafo
• Estonian: laava
• Faroese: grótbræðing f
• 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)

  Ancient: ῥύαξ m (rhúax)

• Hawaiian: ʻaʻā
• Hebrew: לבה‎‎ (he) f
• Hungarian: láva (hu)
• Icelandic: hraun (is)
• Ido: lavao (io)
• Indonesian: lava (id)
• Italian: lava (it) f
• Japanese: 溶岩 (ja) (ようがん, yōgan), ラヴァ (rava)
• Korean: 용암 (ko) (熔岩, yong-am)
• Latin: lava f
• Latvian: lava
• Lithuanian: lava

• Low German: Lava
• Luxembourgish: Lava
• Malay: lava
• Maori: rangitoto, tahepuia
• Navajo: tsézhin, chézhin
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lava (no) m

  Nynorsk: lava m

• Persian: گدازه‎‎ (fa) (godāze)
• Polish: lawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: lava (pt) f
• Romanian: lavă (ro)
• Russian: ла́ва (ru) f (láva)
• Samoan: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лава f

  Roman: lava (sh) f

• Sicilian: lava f
• Slovak: láva (sk) f
• Spanish: lava (es) f
• Swahili: lava
• Swedish: lava (sv) c
• Tagalog: laba
• 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: ^{(please verify)} rangitoto

See also

• aa
• pahoehoe

Anagrams

• Alva, aval

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Catalan

Noun

lava f (plural laves)

1. lava

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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

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Hyphenation: la‧va

Noun

lava c (uncountable)

1. lava

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Estonian

Noun

lava (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. stage

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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

Inflection of lava (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		lava	lavat
genitive		lavan	lavojen
partitive		lavaa	lavoja
illative		lavaan	lavoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		lava	lavat
accusative	nom.	lava	lavat
	gen.	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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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Italian lava (Neapolitan dialect)

Noun

lava m (definite singular lavaen, indefinite plural lavaer, definite plural lavaene)

1. (geology) lava

Derived terms

• lavastrøm

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• lavene

Noun

lava m, n

1. definite neuter plural of lav

References

• “lava” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Italian lava (Neapolitan dialect)

Noun

lava m (definite singular lavaen, indefinite plural lavaer, definite plural lavaene)

1. (geology) lava

Etymology 2

Noun

lava n

1. definite plural of lav

References

• “lava” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

lava

Pronunciation

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

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 and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of lavar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) 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

Etymology

From Italian (Neapolitan dialect) lava (“lava”), from lavare (“to wash”).

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.

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Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish lava.

Noun

lava

1. floor
2. platform

Inflection

Inflection of lava
nominative sing.	lava
genitive sing.	lavan
partitive sing.	lavad
partitive plur.	lavoid
	singular	plural
nominative	lava	lavad
accusative	lavan	lavad
genitive	lavan	lavoiden
partitive	lavad	lavoid
essive-instructive	lavan	lavoin
translative	lavaks	lavoikš
inessive	lavas	lavoiš
elative	lavaspäi	lavoišpäi
illative	?	lavoihe
adessive	laval	lavoil
ablative	lavalpäi	lavoilpäi
allative	lavale	lavoile
abessive	lavata	lavoita
comitative	lavanke	lavoidenke
prolative	lavadme	lavoidme
approximative I	lavanno	lavoidenno
approximative II	lavannoks	lavoidennoks
egressive	lavannopäi	lavoidennopäi
terminative I	?	lavoihesai
terminative II	lavalesai	lavoilesai
terminative III	lavassai	—
additive I	?	lavoihepäi
additive II	lavalepäi	lavoilepäi

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “площадка, пол, помост”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika