lavina

See also: Lavina, lavína, lavīna, and lavină

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Lawine, ultimately from Late Latin labina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlavɪna]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: la‧vi‧na

Noun

lavina f

1. avalanche (large sliding mass of snow and ice)

Declension

Declension of lavina (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	lavina	laviny
genitive	laviny	lavin
dative	lavině	lavinám
accusative	lavinu	laviny
vocative	lavino	laviny
locative	lavině	lavinách
instrumental	lavinou	lavinami

Further reading

• “lavina”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “lavina”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “lavina”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Lawine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɒvinɒ]
• Hyphenation: la‧vi‧na
• Rhymes: -nɒ

Noun

lavina (plural lavinák)

1. avalanche (large sliding mass of snow and ice)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	lavina	lavinák
accusative	lavinát	lavinákat
dative	lavinának	lavináknak
instrumental	lavinával	lavinákkal
causal-final	lavináért	lavinákért
translative	lavinává	lavinákká
terminative	lavináig	lavinákig
essive-formal	lavinaként	lavinákként
essive-modal	lavinául	—
inessive	lavinában	lavinákban
superessive	lavinán	lavinákon
adessive	lavinánál	lavináknál
illative	lavinába	lavinákba
sublative	lavinára	lavinákra
allative	lavinához	lavinákhoz
elative	lavinából	lavinákból
delative	lavináról	lavinákról
ablative	lavinától	lavináktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	lavináé	lavináké
non-attributive possessive – plural	lavináéi	lavinákéi

Possessive forms of lavina

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	lavinám	lavináim
2nd person sing.	lavinád	lavináid
3rd person sing.	lavinája	lavinái
1st person plural	lavinánk	lavináink
2nd person plural	lavinátok	lavináitok
3rd person plural	lavinájuk	lavináik

Further reading

• lavina in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Lawine.

Noun

lavina f (plural lavine)

1. snowslide

Anagrams

• Lavani, alvina, navali, valina

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [laˈvina]

Noun

lavina f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of lavină

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Lawine.

Noun

làvina f (Cyrillic spelling ла̀вина)

1. avalanche
2. landslide

Declension

Declension of lavina

	singular	plural
nominative	làvina	lavine
genitive	lavine	lȁvīnā
dative	lavini	lavinama
accusative	lavinu	lavine
vocative	lavino	lavine
locative	lavini	lavinama
instrumental	lavinom	lavinama