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==English==
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===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|lô|a=UK}}, {{IPA|en|/lɔː/}}
** {{audio|en|en-uk-law.ogg|a=UK}}
** {{rhymes|en|ɔː|s=1}}
* {{enPR|lô|a=US}}, {{IPA|en|/lɔ/}}
* {{enPR|lä|a=cot-caught}}, {{IPA|en|/lɑ/}}
** {{audio|en|en-us-law.ogg|a=US}}
* {{enPR|lô|a=AU}}, {{IPA|en|/ɫoː/}}
* {{audio|en|en-au-law.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{homophones|en|la|aa=cot-caught}}
* {{homophones|en|lore|aa=non-rhotic,horse-hoarse}}
* {{homophones|en|lure|aa=non-rhotic,pour-poor}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*legʰ-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|lawe}}, {{m|enm|laȝe}}, from {{inh|en|ang|lagu|t=law}}, borrowed from {{der|en|non|lǫg|t=law|lit=things laid down or firmly established}}, originally the plural of {{m|non|lag||layer, stratum, a laying in order, measure, stroke}}, from {{der|en|gem-pro|*lagą|t=that which is laid down}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*legʰ-|t=to lie}}. Cognate with {{cog|sco|law|t=law}}, {{cog|is|lög|t=things laid down, law}}, {{cog|fo|lóg|t=law}}, {{cog|no|lov|t=law}}, {{cog|sv|lag|t=law}}, {{cog|da|lov|t=law}}, {{cog|fi|laki|t=law}}. Replaced {{noncog|ang|ǣ}} and {{m|ang|ġesetnes}}. More at {{l|en|lay}}.

Not related to {{m|en|legal}}, nor to {{ncog|fr|loi}}, {{ncog|es|ley}}, all of which ultimately derive from {{ncog|la|lēx}}, from {{ncog|ine-pro|*leǵ-|t=to gather}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}

# {{lb|en|usually with "the"}} The [[body]] of [[binding]] [[rule]]s and [[regulation]]s, [[custom]]s{{,}} and [[standard]]s [[establish]]ed in a [[community]] by its [[legislative]] and [[judicial]] [[authority|authorities]].
#* {{RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp|chapter=22|passage=Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part.{{...}}Next day she{{...}}tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the '''law''', and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1941|author=w:George Orwell|title={{w|The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius|The Lion and the Unicorn}}|section=Pt. I
|passage=Here one comes upon an all-important [[English]] trait: the respect for constitutionalism and legality, the belief in "the '''law'''" as something above the State and above the individual, something which is cruel and stupid, of course, but at any rate ''incorruptible''. It is not that anyone imagines the '''law''' to be just. Everyone knows that there is one '''law''' for the [[rich]] and another for the [[poor]]. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the '''law''', such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not.}}
#: {{ux|en|The courts interpret the '''law''' but should not make it.}}
#: {{ux|en|In theory, [[entrapment]] is against the '''law'''.}}
## The [[body]] of such rules that [[pertain]] to a particular [[topic]].
##: {{ux|en|property '''law'''}}
##: {{ux|en|commercial hunting and fishing '''law'''}}
## [[common law|Common law]], as [[contrast]]ed with [[equity]].
# A [[binding]] [[regulation]] or [[custom]] [[establish]]ed in a [[community]] in this way.
#: {{ux|en|There is a '''law''' against importing wallabies.}}
#: {{ux|en|A new '''law''' forbids driving on that road.}}
#: {{ux|en|The court ruled that the executive order was not '''law''' and nullified it.}}
#* {{RQ:Birmingham Gossamer|chapter=I|passage=As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,{{nb...}}. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.{{...}}I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether '''laws''' are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.}}
# {{lb|en|more generally}} {{n-g|A [[rule]], such as:}}
## Any [[rule]] that must or should be [[obey]]ed, concerning [[behaviour]]s and their [[consequence]]s. {{q|Compare {{m|en|mores}}.}}
##: {{ux|en|"Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good '''law''' to follow.}}
##: {{ux|en|the '''law''' of self-preservation}}
## A [[rule]] or [[principle]] regarding the [[construction]] of [[language]] or [[art]].
##: {{ux|en|the '''laws''' of playwriting and poetry}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1997|author=Derek Prince|title=If you Want God's Best| ISBN=1603747540| passage=The normal pronoun to use with "spirit" would be "it." But Jesus breaks the '''law''' of grammar and says not "when ''it''," but "''when '''he'''.''"}}
## A [[statement]] (in [[physics]], etc) of an ([[observe]]d, [[establish]]ed) [[order]] or [[sequence]] or [[relationship]] of [[phenomena]] which is [[invariable]] under certain [[condition]]s. {{q|Compare {{m|en|theory}}.}}
##: {{syn|en|Thesaurus:law of nature}}
##* {{quote-journal|en|date=March 2 1992|author=Richard Preston|journal=w:The New Yorker|titleurl=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/03/02/the-mountains-of-pi|title=The Mountains of Pi
|passage=Observing [[pi]] is easier than studying physical phenomena, because you can prove things in mathematics, whereas you can't prove anything in physics. And, unfortunately, the '''laws''' of physics change once every generation.}}
##: {{ux|en|the '''laws''' of thermodynamics}}
##: {{ux|en|Newton's third '''law''' of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.}}
##: {{ux|en|This is one of several '''laws''' derived from his general theory expounded in the ''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica''.}}
## {{lb|en|mathematics|logic}} A [[statement]] (of [[relation]]) that is [[true]] under [[specified]] [[condition]]s; a [[mathematical]] or [[logical]] [[rule]].
##: {{ux|en|Mathematical '''laws''' can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.}}
## Any [[statement]] of the [[relation]] of [[act]]s and [[condition]]s to their [[consequence]]s.
##: {{ux|en|the '''law''' of scarcity}}
##: {{ux|en|the '''law''' of supply and demand}}
## {{lb|en|linguistics}} A [[sound law]]; a regular change in the [[pronunciation]] of a language.
##: {{ux|en|Grimm's '''law'''}}
##: {{ux|en|Dahl's '''law'''}}
## {{lb|en|cricket}} One of the [[official]] rules of [[cricket]] as [[codified]] by the its (former) [[govern]]ing [[body]], the [[MCC]].
# The [[control]] and [[order]] [[bring about|brought about]] by the [[observance]] of such rules.
#: {{ux|en|They worked to maintain '''law''' and order.}}
#: {{ux|en|It was a territory without '''law''', marked by violence.}}
# {{lb|en|informal}} A [[person]] or [[group]] that act(s) with [[authority]] to [[uphold]] such rules and order (for example, one or more [[police]] [[officer]]s).
#: {{ux|en|Here comes the '''law''' — run!}}
#: {{ux|en|then the '''law''' arrived on the scene}}
#* {{quote-song|en|title=w:Joe's Garage|author=w:Frank Zappa|year=1979|passage=That was Joe's first confrontation with "The '''Law'''" / Naturally, we were easy on him / One of our friendly counsellors gave him a donut / And told him to stick closer / To church-oriented social activities}}
# The [[profession]] that deals with such rules (as [[lawyer]]s, [[judge]]s, [[police officer]]s, etc).
#: {{ux|en|He is studying for a career in '''law'''.}}
#: {{ux|en|She has practiced '''law''' in New York for twenty years.}}
# [[jurisprudence|Jurisprudence]], the [[field]] of [[knowledge]] which [[encompass]]es these rules.
#: {{ux|en|She went to university to study '''law'''.}}
# [[litigation|Litigation]]; [[legal]] [[action]] (as a [[means]] of [[maintain]]ing or [[restore|restoring]] [[order]], [[redress]]ing [[wrong]]s, etc).
#: {{ux|en|They were quick to go to '''law'''.}}
# {{lb|en|now|uncommon}} An [[allowance]] of [[distance]] or [[time]] (a [[head start]]) [[give]]n to a [[weak]]er ([[human]] or [[animal]]) [[competitor]] in a [[race]], to make the race more [[fair]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1889|author=Thomas Hughes|title=Tom Brown at Rugby|page=150| passage=After a few minutes' waiting, two well-known runners, chosen for the hares, buckled on the four bags filled with scent, compared their watches with those of young Brooke and Thome, and started off at a long, slinging trot across the fields in the direction of Barby. Then the hounds clustered round Thome, who explained shortly, "They're to have six minutes' '''law'''."}}
# {{lb|en|aviation}} A [[mode]] of [[operation]] of the [[flight control]]s of a [[fly-by-wire]] [[aircraft]].
#: {{ux|en|normal '''law'''; alternate '''law'''; direct '''law'''}}
# {{lb|en|fantasy}} One of two [[metaphysical]] [[force]]s [[rule|ruling]] the [[world]] in some [[fantasy]] [[setting]]s, also called {{m|en|order}}, and opposed to [[chaos]].
# {{lb|en|legal|chiefly|historical}} An [[oath]] [[sworn]] before a [[court]], especially [[disclaim]]ing a [[debt]]. {{q|Chiefly in the phrases "{{m|en|wager of law}}", "{{m|en|wage one's law}}", "{{m|en|perform one's law}}", "{{m|en|lose one's law}}".}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1793|title=A Systematical View of the Laws of England |author=Richard Wooddeson| page=169| passage=As to the depriving the defendant of waging his '''law''', it was thought, the practice merited discouragement, as a temptation to perjury. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1846 |title=A New Abridgment of the Law with Large Additions and Corrections |author=Matthew Bacon; Sir Henry Gwilliam; Charles Edward Dodd| passage=But, before the defendant takes the oath, the plaintiff is called by the crier thrice; and if he do not appear he becomes nonsuited, and then the defendant goes quit without taking his oath; and if he appear, and the defendant swear that he owes the plaintiff nothing, and the compurgators give it upon oath, that they believe he swears true, the plaintiff is barred for ever; for when a person has waged his '''law''', it is as much as if a verdict had passed against the plaintiff; if the plaintiff do not appear to hear the defendant perform his '''law''', so that he is nonsuit, he is not barred, but may bring a new action. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2013 |title=Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield: Volume 2, 1297 to 1309 |author=William Paley Baildon| page=ix| ISBN=1108058620| passage=A withdrawal from a wager of law was an admission of the point as to which the '''law''' was waged; the defaulter also incurred a fine (i, 297). }}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col4|en
|above the law|[[Boyle-Mariotte law]]|[[hard cases make bad law]]
|against the law|Bradford's law|framework law|Lubarsky's law of cybernetic entomology|ugly law
|alternate law
|Ampère's law|Atwood's Law|Yog's Law|Heaps' law|sergeant-at-law|Talbot's law|Talbot-Plateau law
|Avogadro's law
|Beer-Lambert law
|[[Betteridge's law]], [[Betteridge's law of headlines]]
|Boyle's law
|bylaw|astrolaw|BigLaw|blawg|counterlaw|cyberlaw|Eurolaw|inlaw|lawbook|lawbot|lawbreaking|lawclerk|lawcode|lawcraft|lawfare|lawgiving|lawly|lawmaking|lawmonger|lawscape|lawsome|lawspeaker|lawsuit|metalaw|neurolaw|nonlaw|outlaw|powerlaw|prelaw|pseudolaw|scofflaw|sublaw|unlaw|Westlaw
|canon law
|Charles' law
|civil law
|common law
|company law
|contract law
|corn laws
|Coulomb's law
|criminal law
|de Morgan's laws
|direct law
|employment law
|family law|
|Faraday's law
|federal law
|feudal law|Arndt-Schulz law|business law|corporate law|law shopping|O'Sullivan's law|trade law
|Fourier's law
|Gauss's law
|Graham's law
|Gresham's law
|Henry's law
|Hooke's law
|Hubble's law
|international law
|into law
|Kepler's laws of planetary motion
|Kerchoff's laws| bad facts make bad law|book law|Bradford’s law|Cope's law|Engel's law|Fechner's law|Healey's first law of holes|Healey's law|Hyrum's law|Kepler's law|law of holes|Tranzschel's law
|law-abiding
|law and order
|lawbreaker
|law dictionary
|lawful
|lawgiver
|lawless
|lawlike
|[[law lord]], [[Law Lord]]
|[[lawmaker]], [[law-maker]]
|law of cosines
|law of large numbers<!--mathematics-->
|law of sines
|law of small numbers<!--mathematics-->
|law of tangents
|law of the land
|law of the tongue
|law unto oneself
|lay down the law
|long arm of the law
|lynch law
|martial law
|Moore's law
|Murphy's law
|natural law
|Newton's law of cooling
|Newton's law of gravitation
|Newton's laws of motion
|normal law
|Ohm's law
|physical law
|power law
|Poiseuille's law
|possession is nine points of the law
|property law
|Roman law
|Say's law
|sharia law
|state law
|statute law
|statutory law
|Stefan-Boltzmann law
|Stokes' law
|sus law
|take the law into one's own hands
|the law is an ass
|three laws of robotics
|unwritten law
|Zipf's law|Shine the Light Law
|administrative law|admiralty law|Amara's law|Amdahl's law|as a matter of law|attorney at law|attorney-at-law|Baby Moses law|basic law|Baxter's law|Benford's law|Bennett's law|Betz's law|black letter law|black-letter law|blue law|blue sky law|Bode's law|Bowley's law|Bragg's law|Brooks's law|by-law|bye-law|case law|Cassie's law|Charles's law|chemical law|Christian sharia law|chthonic law|civil law notary|club law|color of law|combined gas law|common-law|common-law marriage|con law|conservation law|constitutional law|Conway's law|cosine law|court of law|Cowgill's law|cube-square law|Curie's law|customary international law|Dalton's law|Danth's law|Darcy's law|De Morgan's law|decisional law|Descartes law|divine law|Dollo's law|due process of law|Duverger's law|e-law|Emmert's law|English and Welsh law|English law|Enoch Arden law|Eroom's law|every law has a loophole|every law has its loophole|Finagle's law|fiscal law|Godwin's law|good law|Good Samaritan law|Goodhart's law|granger law|Granger law|Grassmann's law|Grimm's law|Grosch's law|Gustafson's law|Hardy-Weinberg law|have the law of someone|heir at law|heir-at-law|Hellin's law|Hess's law|Hilt's law|Hirt's law|Hofstadter's law|Hubble law|Hume's law|ideal gas law|in the eyes of the law|in-law|inheritance law|international humanitarian law|inverse-square law|IT law|Jim Crow law|Joule's law|judge-made law|Kirchhoff's current law|Kirchhoff's voltage law|labor law|labour law|Lambert's cosine law|Lanchester's law|law agent|law binding|law calf|law clerk|law court|law day|law enforcement|law firm|law Latin|law leather|law list|law merchant|law of attraction|law of averages|law of conservation of mass|law of contradiction|law of diminishing marginal utility|law of diminishing returns|law of double negation|law of excluded middle|law of Hobson-Jobson|law of identity|law of love|law of markets|law of nations|law of nature|law of non-contradiction|law of noncontradiction|law of nontriviality|law of obligations|law of one|law of one price|law of parsimony|law of the excluded middle|law of the jungle|law of the Medes and the Persians|law of the sea|law of unintended consequences|law of war|law review|law school|law suit|law-breaker|law-enforcement|law-trained|law-way|law-ways|Leibniz's law|Lemaître's law|lemon law|Lenz's law|letter of the law|Lewis's law|limb of the law|Little's law|Littlewood's law|Lotka's law|Lyman's law|Maine law|malice in law|man of law|Marconi's law|Mariotte's law|maritime law|matter of law|Meillet's law|Menzerath's law|Metcalfe's law|Miles' law|mob law|Mooers's law|Muphry's law|necessity knows no law|Newton's first law|Newton's second law|Newton's third law|Okun's law|one's word is law|operation of law|organic law|paenultima law|Panini's law|Pareto's law|Parkinson's law|Pascal's law|Peirce's law|penal law|penultima law|periodic law|Plateau's law|Poe's law|poor law|positive law|possession is nine-tenths of the law|Postel's law|Pournelle's law|precedential law|Price's law|private international law|private law|procedural law|public international law|public law|question of law|red flag law|red letter law|retroactive law|Ribot's law|Romeo and Juliet law|rule of law|Salic law|Scots law|Scottish law|shield law||sign into law|sine law|Snell's law|Sod's law|Son of Sam law|sound law|space law|spirit of the law|square-cube law|stand-your-ground law|Stang's law|Stigler's law|Sturgeon's law|substantive law|sumptuary law|sunset law|sunshine law|suss law|Szemerényi's law|take law into one's own hands|tax law|the law is a ass|there ought to be a law|there oughta be a law|there oughtta be a law|thief in law|three-strikes law|threefold law|Titius-Bode law|tort law|TRAP law|trigger law|trite law|van 't Hoff's law|Verner's law|Vierordt's law|Virchow's law|water law|Weber-Fechner law|Welsh law|windward of the law|Winter's law|Wolff's law|Worthington's law|Zawinski's law|zero-one law|Amagat's law|Ammon's law|Ampère's circuital law|Ampère's force law|Beer's law|Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law|Bouguer's law|Brewster's law|Buys Ballot's law|commercial law|corn law|Courvoisier's law|Dybo's law|extreme risk law|financial law|Fitts' law|Fitts's law|gas law|Gay-Lussac's law|Geiger-Nuttall law|Grotthuss-Draper law|Haldane's law|Henry's law constant|in the name of the law|Jordan's law|Jurin's law|Kohlrausch's law|Lambert's emission law|Lambert's law|Lambert-Beer law|law of correspondence|law of majestas|Leavitt law|Maas's law|Meckel-Serres law|Mitscherlich's law|Paschen's law|personal law|Raoult's law|Rayleigh-Jeans law|Riepl's law|Roman-Dutch law|Schneier's law|serjeant-at-law|Sievers' law|Sievers's law|Sieverts' law|Stark-Einstein law|stepmother-in-law|Torricelli's law|trust law|Van der Waals law|van der Waals law|Wien's displacement law}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|body of rules established in a community by its authorities}}{{multitrans|data=
* Abkhaz: {{t|ab|азакуан}}
* Afrikaans: {{tt+|af|wet}}
* Albanian: {{tt|sq|ligj|m}}
* Ambonese Malay: {{tt|abs|wet}}
* Amharic: {{t|am|ሕግ}}
* Arabic: {{tt+|ar|قَانُون|m}}, {{tt+|ar|شَرِيعَة|f|tr=šarīʕa}} {{qualifier|religious, islamic}}
* Armenian: {{tt+|hy|օրենք}}
* Aromanian: {{t|rup|nom|n}}
* Asturian: {{tt+|ast|llei|f}}
* Atong (India): {{tt|aot|niam}}
* Azerbaijani: {{tt|az|hüquq}}
* Basque: {{tt|eu|lege}}
* Bengali: {{tt+|bn|আইন}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt+|bg|зако́н|m}}
* Burmese: {{t+|my|ဥပဒေ}}, {{t+|my|တရား}}
* Buryat: {{t|bua|хуули}}
* Catalan: {{tt+|ca|llei}}, {{tt+|ca|dret}}
* Cebuano: {{tt|ceb|balaod}}
* Chechen: {{tt|ce|ӏедал}}, {{tt|ce|бакъо}}
* Cherokee: {{tt|chr|ᏗᎧᏃᏩᏛᏍᏗ}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{tt|yue|法律}}
*: Hokkien: {{tt+|nan-hbl|法律|tr=hoat-lu̍t}}
*: Mandarin: {{tt+|cmn|法律}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|právo|n}}, {{tt+|cs|zákon|m}}
* Danish: {{tt+|da|lov|c}}, {{tt+|da|ret|c}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|wet|m}}, {{tt+|nl|recht|n}}
* Erzya: {{tt|myv|витьчи}}, {{tt|myv|права}}
* Esperanto: {{tt|eo|leĝaro}}
* Estonian: {{tt+|et|õigus}}
* Ewe: {{tt|ee|se}}
* Extremaduran: {{t|ext|lei}}, {{t|ext|derechu}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|laki}}, {{tt+|fi|lainsäädäntö}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|loi|f}}, {{tt+|fr|droit|m}}
* Galician: {{tt+|gl|lei|f}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|სამართალი}}
* German: {{tt+|de|Gesetz|n}}, {{tt+|de|Recht|n}}
* Gothic: {{tt|got|𐍅𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌸|n}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|νόμος|m}}, {{tt+|el|δίκαιο|n}}
*: Ancient: {{tt|grc|νόμος|m}}
* Haitian Creole: {{tt|ht|lwa}}
* Hebrew: {{tt+|he|חוק|m|tr=khók|alt=חוק \ חֹק}}, {{tt+|he|מִשְׁפָּט|m|tr=mishpát}}
* Hindi: {{tt|hi|क़ानून|m}}, {{t+|hi|विधान}}, {{t+|hi|नियम}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|jog}}
* Icelandic: {{tt+|is|lög|n-p}}
* Indonesian: {{tt+|id|hukum}}
* Ingrian: {{t|izh|oikehus}}
* Interlingua: {{tt+|ia|lege}}
* Irish: {{tt+|ga|dlí|m}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|legge|f}}
* Japanese: {{tt+|ja|法律|tr=ほうりつ, hōritsu}}<!--, {{tt+|ja|法|tr=ほう, hō}}, {{tt+|ja|法規|tr=ほうき, hōki}}, {{tt+|ja|法律|tr=ほうりつ, hōritsu}}, {{tt+|ja|法令|tr=ほうれい, hōrei}}-->
* Kannada: {{tt+|kn|ಕಾನೂನು}}
* Kazakh: {{tt|kk|заң}}, {{t+|kk|құқық}}
* Khmer: {{tt+|km|ច្បាប់}}
* Korean: {{tt+|ko|법률(法律)}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{tt|ckb|یاسا}}
*: Northern Kurdish: {{tt+|kmr|qanûn|f}}, {{tt+|kmr|zagon|f}}, {{tt+|kmr|yasa|f}}<!--{{tt+|kmr|dad|f}}, {{tt+|kmr|hiqûq|f}}, {{tt+|kmr|edalet|f}}-->
* Kyrgyz: {{tt+|ky|кай}}
* Lao: {{t+|lo|ກົດໝາຍ}}
* Latin: {{tt+|la|lex|f}} (genitive {{tt+|la|lēgis|f}}), {{tt+|la|iūs|n}} (genitive {{tt+|la|iūris|n}}), {{tt+|la|iura|n-p}}
* Latvian: {{tt|lv|tiesības|m}}
* Lithuanian: {{tt+|lt|teisė|f}}
* Lombard: {{tt+|lmo|leg|f}}
* Luxembourgish: {{tt|lb|Droit|m}}
* Lü: {{t|khb|ᦀᦱᧆᦍᦱ}}
* Malagasy: {{t+|mg|lalana}}
* Malay: {{tt+|ms|undang-undang}}
* Malayalam: {{tt+|ml|നിയമം}}
* Maltese: {{tt|mt|liġi|f}}
* Manchu: {{tt|mnc|ᡶᠠᡶᡠᠨ}}
* Middle English: {{tt|enm|lawe}}
* Mongolian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt+|mn|хууль}}
*: Mongolian: {{tt|mn|ᠬᠠᠤᠯᠢ}}
* Nepali: {{tt|ne|कानून|c|tr=kānūn}} {{qualifier|literally}}, {{tt+|ne|विधान|tr=vidhān}}, {{tt|ne|नियम|tr=niyam}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{tt+|nb|lov|m}}, {{tt+|nb|lag|m}} {{qualifier|obsolete}}
* Occitan: {{tt+|oc|lei|f}}, {{tt+|oc|drech|m}}
* Old English: {{tt|ang|dōm}}, {{tt|ang|ǣ|f}}
* Oromo: {{tt|om|seera}}
* Palauan: {{tt|pau|llach}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|داد|tr=dād}}
*: Dari: {{tt+|prs|قَانُون}}
*: Iranian Persian: {{tt+|fa-ira|قانون}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|prawo|n}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|lei|f}}, {{t+check|pt|direito|m}}
* Quechua: {{tt|qu|kamachiy}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|lege|f}}, {{t+check|ro|drept}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|пра́во|n}}, {{tt+|ru|зако́н|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|за́кон|m}}, {{tt|sh|пра̏вило|n}}, {{tt|sh|пра́во|n}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|zákon|m}}, {{tt+|sh|prȁvilo|n}}, {{tt+|sh|právo|n}}
* Shan: {{t+|shn|မၢႆမီႈ}}
* Sicilian: {{tt+|scn|dirittu|m}}, {{tt|scn|liggi|f}}, {{tt+|scn|jussu|m}}
* Sidamo: {{tt|sid|higge}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|právo|n}}, {{tt+|sk|zákon|m}}
* Slovene: {{tt+|sl|pravo|n}}, {{tt+|sl|zakon|m}}
* Somali: {{tt+|so|sharci}}, {{tt|so|xeer}}
* Sorbian:
*: Lower Sorbian: {{tt|dsb|pšawo|n}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|ley|f}}, {{tt+|es|derecho|m}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|sheria}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|lag|c}}, {{t+check|sv|rätt|c}}
* Tagalog: {{tt|tl|batas}}, {{tt|tl|dalubbatasan}}
* Tai Dam: {{t|blt|ꪶꪀꪒꪢꪱꪥ}}, {{t|blt|ꪩꪺꪒ}}
* Tajik: {{tt+|tg|қонун}}
* Telugu: {{tt+|te|చట్టము}}, {{t+check|te|న్యాయశాస్త్రము}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|กฎหมาย}}
* Tocharian B: {{tt|txb|pele}}
* Tok Pisin: {{tt|tpi|lo}}
* Turkish: {{tt+|tr|yasa}}, {{tt+|tr|kanun}}, {{tt+|tr|hukuk}}<!--, {{tt+|tr|hak}}, {{tt+|tr|tüze}}-->
* Urdu: {{tt+|ur|قانُون|m}}
* Uyghur: {{t|ug|ھوقۇق}}
* Uzbek: {{tt+|uz|huquq}}
* Venetan: {{tt|vec|lège|f}}
* Vietnamese: {{tt+|vi|pháp luật}} ({{tt|vi|法律}}), {{tt+|vi|luật}}
* Volapük: {{tt+|vo|lon}}, {{tt+|vo|lonem}}
* Walloon: {{tt+|wa|lwè|f}}
* Welsh: {{tt+|cy|cyfraith|f}}
* White Hmong: {{t|mww|cai}}
* Yakut: {{tt|sah|сокуон}}
* Zazaki: {{tt|zza|soret|f}}, {{tt|zza|huquq|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|any rule that must or should be obeyed}}
* Afrikaans: {{tt+|af|wet}}
* Albanian: {{tt|sq|ligj|m}}
* Amharic: {{tt|am|ሕግ}}
* Arabic: {{tt+|ar|قَانُون|m}}, {{t+|ar|حق|p|alt=حُقُوق}}
* Armenian: {{tt+|hy|օրենք}}
* Aromanian: {{tt|rup|nom|n}}, {{tt|rup|zãcon|n}}, {{tt|rup|zaconj|n}}, {{tt|rup|leadzi|f}}
* Assamese: {{tt|as|আইন}}
* Asturian: {{tt+|ast|llei|f}}
* Avestan: {{tt|ae|𐬛𐬁𐬙𐬀}}
* Azerbaijani: {{tt+|az|qanun}}
* Baluchi: {{tt|bal|کانود|tr=kánúd}}, {{tt|bal|قانود|tr=qánúd}}
* Bashkir: {{tt|ba|хоҡуҡ}}
* Basque: {{tt|eu|lege}}
* Belarusian: {{tt|be|зако́н|m}}
* Bengali: {{tt+|bn|আইন}}, {{tt+|bn|কানুন}}, {{tt+|bn|নিয়ম}}
* Breton: {{tt+|br|lezenn|f}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt+|bg|зако́н|m}}
* Burmese: {{tt+|my|ဥပဒေ}}
* Catalan: {{tt+|ca|llei|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{tt|yue|法律}}
*: Dungan: {{tt|dng|фалү}}
*: Eastern Min: {{tt|cdo|法律}}
*: Hakka: {{tt|hak|法律|tr=fap-li̍t}}
*: Hokkien: {{tt+|nan-hbl|法律|tr=hoat-lu̍t}}
*: Mandarin: {{tt+|cmn|法律}}
*: Wu: {{tt|wuu|法律}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|zákon|m}}
* Danish: {{tt+|da|lov|c}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|wet|m}}
* Elfdalian: {{tt|ovd|lag|m}}
* Esperanto: {{tt+|eo|leĝo}}
* Estonian: {{tt+|et|seadus}}
* Ewe: {{tt|ee|se}}
* Faroese: {{tt|fo|lóg|f}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|laki}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|loi|f}}
* Friulian: {{tt|fur|leç}}, {{tt|fur|leğ|f}}
* Gagauz: {{tt|gag|zakon}}
* Galician: {{tt+|gl|lei|f}}
* Georgian: {{tt|ka|კანონი}}
* German: {{tt+|de|Gesetz|n}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|νόμος|m}}
*: Ancient: {{tt|grc|νόμος|m}}
* Greenlandic: {{tt|kl|inatsit}}
* Haitian Creole: {{tt|ht|lalwa}}
* Hebrew: {{tt+|he|דִּין|m|tr=din}}, {{tt+|he|חוק|m|tr=khok|alt=חוק \ חֹק}}
* Hindi: {{tt|hi|क़ानून|m}}, {{tt+|hi|नियम|m}}, {{t+|hi|विधि|f}}, {{t+|hi|विधान}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|törvény}}
* Icelandic: {{tt+|is|lög|n-p}}
* Indonesian: {{tt+|id|hukum}}, {{tt+|id|undang-undang}}
* Ingrian: {{t|izh|zakona}}
* Irish: {{tt+|ga|dlí|m}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|legge|f}}
* Japanese: {{tt+|ja|法|tr=ほう, hō}}
* Kannada: {{tt+|kn|ಕಾನೂನು}}, {{tt+|kn|ಕಾಯ್ದೆ}}
* Kazakh: {{tt|kk|заң}}, {{t+|kk|құқық}}
* Khmer: {{tt+|km|ច្បាប់}}
* Korean: {{tt+|ko|법(法)}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{tt|ckb|یاسا}}
*: Northern Kurdish: {{tt+|kmr|qanûn|f}}, {{tt+|kmr|zagon|f}}, {{tt+|kmr|yasa|f}}
* Kyrgyz: {{tt+|ky|мыйзам}}, {{tt+|ky|закон}}, {{tt+|ky|заң}}, {{tt+|ky|кай}}, {{t+|ky|укук}}
* Ladin: {{tt|lld|lege}}
* Lao: {{tt+|lo|ກົດໝາຍ}}
* Latgalian: {{tt|ltg|likums|m}}
* Latin: {{tt+|la|lex|f}}
* Latvian: {{tt|lv|likums|m}}
* Lithuanian: {{tt+|lt|įstatymas|m}}
* Luxembourgish: {{tt|lb|Gesetz|n}}
* Macedonian: {{tt|mk|закон|m}}, {{tt|mk|право|n}}
* Malay: {{tt+|ms|peraturan}}, {{tt+|ms|undang-undang}}
* Malayalam: {{tt+|ml|നിയമം}}
* Maltese: {{tt|mt|liġi}}
* Manchu: {{tt|mnc|ᡴᠣᠣᠯᡳ ᡶᠠᡶᡠᠨ}}
* Maori: {{tt+|mi|ture}}
* Marathi: {{tt|mr|कायदा|m}}
* Marrucinian: {{tt|umc|lixs}}
* Middle English: {{tt|enm|lawe}}
* Middle Persian: {{tt|pal|dād}}
* Mongolian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt+|mn|хууль}}
*: Mongolian: {{tt|mn|ᠬᠠᠤᠯᠢ}}
* Nahuatl: {{tt+|nah|nauatili}}
* Navajo: {{tt|nv|bee hazʼáanii}}
* Norman: {{tt|nrf|louai|f}}
* Northern Sami: {{tt|se|láhka}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{tt+|nb|lov|m}}, {{tt+|nb|lag|m}} {{qualifier|obsolete}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|lov|m|f}}
* Odia: {{tt+|or|ନିୟମ}}, {{tt|or|ଆଇନ୍}}
* Old Church Slavonic:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|cu|законъ|m}}
*: Glagolitic: {{tt|cu|ⰸⰰⰽⱁⱀⱏ|m}}
* Old East Slavic: {{tt|orv|законъ|m}}
* Old English: {{tt|ang|dōm}}, {{tt|ang|ǣ|f}}
* Old Occitan: {{tt|pro|ley}}
* Old Persian: {{tt|peo|tr=dāta}}
* Oromo: {{tt|om|seera}}
* Ossetian: {{tt|os|закъон}}
* Palauan: {{tt|pau|llach}}
* Pashto: {{tt+|ps|قانون|m|tr=qānun}}
* Persian:
*: Dari: {{tt+|prs|قَانُون}}, {{tt+|prs|حُقُوق}}
*: Iranian Persian: {{tt+|fa-ira|قانون}}, {{tt+|fa-ira|حُقوق}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|prawo|n}}, {{tt+|pl|reguła|f}}, {{tt+|pl|zasada|f}}, {{tt+|pl|przepis|m}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|lei|f}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|lege|f}}
* Romansch: {{tt|rm|dretg|m}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|зако́н|m}}, {{tt+|ru|пра́вило|n}}, {{tt+|ru|пра́во|n}}
* Sanskrit: {{tt+|sa|नियम|m}}, {{tt+|sa|न्याय|m}}
* Sardinian: {{tt|sc|lei|f}}
* Scots: {{tt|sco|law}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|за́кон|m}}, {{tt|sh|пра̏вило|n}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|zákon|m}}, {{tt+|sh|prȁvilo|n}}
* Shan: {{tt+|shn|တြႃး}}, {{tt+|shn|မၢႆမီႈ}}
* Shor: {{tt|cjs|чозақ|tr=çozaq}}
* Sicilian: {{tt|scn|liggi}}, {{tt+|scn|règula|f}}, {{tt|scn|norma|f}}
* Sinhalese: {{tt|si|නීතිය}}
* Slovak: {{tt+|sk|zákon|m}}
* Slovene: {{tt+|sl|zakon|m}}
* Sorbian:
*: Lower Sorbian: {{tt|dsb|kazń|f}}
*: Upper Sorbian: {{tt|hsb|zakoń|m}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|ley|f}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|kanuni}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|lag|c}}, {{tt+|sv|regel|c}}
* Tagalog: {{tt|tl|batas}}
* Tajik: {{tt+|tg|қонун}}, {{t+|tg|ҳуқуқ}}
* Tamil: {{tt+|ta|சட்டம்}}
* Taos: {{tt|twf|láyna}}
* Tatar: {{tt+|tt|канун}}, {{tt+|tt|хокук}}
* Telugu: {{tt+|te|నియమము}}, {{tt+|te|చట్టము}}
* Thai: {{tt+|th|กฎหมาย}}
* Tibetan: {{tt|bo|ཁྲིམས}}
* Tigrinya: {{tt|ti|ሕጊ}}, {{tt|ti|ስርዓት}}
* Tok Pisin: {{tt|tpi|lo}}
* Turkish: {{tt+|tr|kanun}}, {{tt+|tr|yasa}}, {{t+|tr|hukuk}}
* Turkmen: {{tt|tk|kanun}}
* Ukrainian: {{tt+|uk|зако́н|m}}
* Urdu: {{tt+|ur|قانُون|m}}, {{t+|ur|حُقُوق|m-p}}
* Uyghur: {{tt|ug|قانۇن}}
* Uzbek: {{tt+|uz|qonun}}, {{t+|uz|huquq}}
* Venetan: {{tt|vec|lexe}}, {{tt|vec|leje}}, {{tt|vec|lege}}
* Vietnamese: {{tt+|vi|pháp luật}} ({{tt|vi|法律}}), {{tt+|vi|luật pháp}}
* Welsh: {{tt+|cy|cyfraith|f}}
* Yakut: {{tt|sah|сокуон}}
* Yiddish: {{tt|yi|געזעץ}}
* Zazaki: {{tt|zza|soret|f}}
* Zhuang: {{tt|za|faplwd}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|statement of (observed, established) order, sequence or relationship of phenomena}}
* Arabic: {{tt+|ar|قَانُون|m}}
* Armenian: {{tt+|hy|օրենք}}
* Bengali: {{tt+|bn|নিয়ম}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt+|bg|зако́н|m}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{tt|yue|定律}}
*: Hokkien: {{tt+|nan-hbl|定律|tr=tēng-lu̍t}}
*: Mandarin: {{tt+|cmn|定律}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|zákon|m}}
* Danish: {{tt+|da|lov|c}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|wet|m}}
* Estonian: {{tt+|et|seadus}}, {{tt|et|seaduspärasus}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|laki}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|loi|f}}, {{tt+|fr|théorème|m}}
* German: {{tt+|de|Gesetz|n}}
* Hebrew: {{tt+|he|חוק|m|tr=choqq|alt=חוק \ חֹק}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|नियम}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|törvény}}
* Icelandic: {{tt|is|lögmál|n}}
* Interlingua: {{tt+|ia|lege}}
* Irish: {{tt+|ga|dlí|m}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|legge|f}}
* Japanese: {{tt+|ja|法則|tr=ほうそく, hōsoku}}
* Kannada: {{tt+|kn|ನಿಯಮ}}
* Korean: {{tt+|ko|법칙(法則)}}
* Latin: {{tt+|la|lex|f}}
* Latvian: {{tt|lv|likums|m}}
* Lithuanian: {{tt|lt|dėsnis|m}}
* Malay: {{tt|ms|hukum}}
* Middle English: {{tt|enm|lawe}}
* Persian:
*: Dari: {{tt+|prs|قَانُون}}
*: Iranian Persian: {{tt+|fa-ira|قانون}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|prawo|n}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|lei|f}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|lege|f}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|зако́н|m}}
* Sicilian: {{tt|scn|liggi|f}}
* Slovene: {{tt+|sl|zakon|m}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|ley|f}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|kanuni}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|lag|c}}
* Telugu: {{tt+|te|సిద్ధాంతము}}
* Turkish: {{tt+|tr|kanun}}, {{tt+|tr|yasa}}, {{tt+|tr|ilke}}
* Vietnamese: {{tt+|vi|định luật}} ({{tt|vi|定律}})
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|mathematics: statement that is true under specified conditions}}
* Armenian: {{tt+|hy|օրենք}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|zákon|m}}
* Danish: {{tt+|da|lov|c}}
* Estonian: {{tt|et|reegel}}, {{tt+|et|seadus}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|laki}}, {{tt+|fi|sääntö}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|loi|f}}
* German: {{tt+|de|Gesetz|n}}
* Hindi: {{tt+|hi|नियम|m}}, {{t+|hi|सिद्धांत}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|törvény}}
* Irish: {{tt+|ga|dlí|m}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|legge|f}}
* Japanese: {{tt+|ja|法則|tr=ほうそく, hōsoku}}, {{tt+|ja|律|tr=りつ, ritsu}}
* Kannada: {{tt+|kn|ನಿಯಮ}}
* Korean: {{tt+|ko|법칙(法則)}}
* Latin: {{tt+|la|lex|f}}
* Persian:
*: Dari: {{tt+|prs|قَانُون}}
*: Iranian Persian: {{tt+|fa-ira|قانون}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|reguła|f}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|lei|f}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|lege|f}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|зако́н|m}}
* Sicilian: {{tt|scn|liggi|f}}
* Slovene: {{tt+|sl|zakon|m}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|ley|f}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|lag|c}}
* Telugu: {{tt+|te|సూత్రము}}
* Turkish: {{tt+|tr|kanun}}
* Zazaki: {{tt+|zza|qanun|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|informal: the police}}
* Danish: {{tt|da|loven|c}} {{qualifier|definite form}}
* Finnish: {{tt|fi|kytät|p}}
* German: {{tt+|de|Gesetz|n}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|rendőr}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|legge|f}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|stróż prawa|m}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|lei|f}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|lege|f}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|поли́ция|f}}
* Sicilian: {{tt|scn|liggi|f}}
* Turkish: {{tt+|tr|kanun}}, {{tt+|tr|asayiş}}
* Zazaki: {{tt|zza|asayış|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|the legal profession}}
* Hebrew: {{tt+|he|עֲרִיכַת דִּין|f|tr=arikhát dín}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|legge|f}}
* Sicilian: {{tt|scn|liggi|f}}
* Zazaki: {{tt|zza|heqat|f}}
}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Arabic: {{t+check|ar|قَانُون|m}}, {{t+check|ar|شَرِيعَة|m}}, {{t+check|ar|شَرْع|m}}
* Guerrero Amuzgo: {{t-check|amu|lê}}
* Indonesian: {{t+check|id|hukum}}, {{t+check|id|atur|alt=peraturan}} <!-- was "[[atur|peraturan]]" - assumed inflected form or vocalised spelling; please verify if linking is acceptable. see [[User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing]] -->, {{t-check|id|tata-tertib}}
* Interlingua: {{t+check|ia|lege}}
* Romanian: {{t+check|ro|lege|f}}
* Turkish: {{t+check|tr|hukuk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[work]] as a [[lawyer]]; to [[practice]] [[#Noun|law]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1889|title=New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs |author=New York (State). Court of Appeals |page=71 |ISBN= |passage=That was in 1877 you were '''lawing''' with Herdick? }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1897|title=The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta - Volume 21  |author= |page= 210|ISBN= |passage=J. H. Turner is married and '''lawing''' in Milwaukee. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1923 |title=Time - Volume 29  |author=Briton Hadden  |page=59 |ISBN= |passage=The American Bar Association ruefully admits that the legal profession is overcrowded, especially in large cities. It has a committee studying the situation. Last week an editorial in the New York Law Journal urged a youthful revolt against the city, twanged an idyll of '''lawing''' in the country. }}
# {{lb|en|ambitransitive|chiefly|dialectal}} To [[prosecute]] or [[sue]] (someone), to [[litigate]].
#* '''1860''', George Eliot (Mary Anne Lewes), ''The Mill on the Floss'':
#*: Your husband's [...] so given to '''lawing''', they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1886|author=Charles Dudley Warner|title=Their Pilgrimage|page=144|passage="I like folks to be up and down and square," she began saying, as she vigilantly watched the effect of her culinary skill upon the awed little party. "Yes, I've got a regular hotel license; you bet I have. There's been folks '''lawed''' in this town for sellin' a meal of victuals and not having one."}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2014 |title=The Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America |author=Joseph Andrew Orser  |page= |ISBN= |passage=“So I said to her, 'Well, no man ever made anything '''lawing''' with his wife, so, if your mind is set on having a divorce and the children you will want plenty to raise them with,' so I deed her the farm in Sumner county and everything on it—horses, mules, machinery, everything.” }}
# {{lb|en|nonstandard}} To [[rule]] over (with a certain effect) by [[#Noun|law]]; to [[govern]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1939|author=Henry Green Hodges|title=City management: theory and practice of municipal administration
|passage=At its 1933 session, the Kansas legislature provided for funding outstanding bills and floating debts of those cities which could not make payment by a fixed date. By this stroke of its imagination, the legislature '''lawed''' all Kansas cities onto a "cash" basis and admonished them to stay there.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1969|title=Aryan Path - Volume 40  |author= |page=338 |ISBN= |passage=Earth lies in the chorus of the stars' congregation in the '''lawed''' line of their movement, in the balanced rotation of their light, bound by that '''lawed''' line, conceived in the focus of that turning; a vessel fashioned on the wheel of endless time.  }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1979|title=Surat In The Seventeenth Century  |author=Gokhale |page=27 |ISBN=8171542204 |passage=Nicholas Downton (February 1615) says of the people of Surat: "a mixt people, quiet, peaceable, very subtle; civil, and universally governed under one King, but diversely '''lawed''' and customed".  }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Henry Grenryk Ledesma|title=The Little Book: The Sound of the Seventh Trumpet|page=38|passage=So that, when GOD said, “Let there be light:” Behold the first created light burst out unto its glory (here GOD '''lawed''' the power of heat, fire, light, melting, cooling, and freezing)}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2011|title=The Iron Cage |author=Brian Freemantle  |page= |ISBN=1453226672 |passage=Beyond the ocher and yellow-washed buildings, French colonial with a suggestion of Beau Geste from the castellated balconies, it is an arm-grabbing, loosely '''lawed''' bazaar of a place.  }}
# {{lb|en|informal}} To [[enforce]] the [[#Noun|law]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1918|title=E.K. Means  |author=Eldred Kurtz Means  |page=50 |ISBN= |passage=De gram jury '''lawed''' me all de time an' dat place got too hot. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1972 |title=Coaltown revisited: an Appalachian notebook  |author=Bill Peterson  |page=28 |ISBN= |passage=The only time I ever got '''lawed''' [arrested] was for the union. Happened three times. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2008 |title=Art in America: A Novel |author=Ron McLarty  |page= |ISBN=1440629935 |passage=So we're on the road with the micks, maybe a mile from the precinct, and Reedy just pulls over, takes them out onto the Commons, takes off the cuffs, and we knock about twenty pounds of shit out of them.” Petey sensed the agent watching him talk and tried to explain it all another way. “What I mean is, '''lawing''' used to be pretty damn pure. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2013 |title=Hyde's Corner - Book II - In The Name of Vengeance |author=J B Bergstad |page= |ISBN=0988806835 |passage=The sheriff jabbed his thumb at his chest. "I run this shebang. Been doing so for forty-six years. You think you can come in here and preach '''lawing''' to me? }}
# To [[subject]] to [[legal]] [[restriction]]s.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1895|title=The Chronicle - Volumes 55-56  |author= |page=125 |ISBN= |passage=Insurance may fairly be said to head the list of objects of legislative interference. It has been '''lawed''' and '''lawed''' until it is nearly outlawed, and the cry for more continues to go up unsatisfied }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1914|title=California Outlook - Volume 16  |author= |page=lxx |ISBN= |passage=No man knew what his water rights were until they had been '''lawed''' over, and '''lawed''' over, and '''lawed''' over again. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1920|title=Weight and Measure  |author= |page=34 |ISBN= |passage=It has been truly said that we are '''lawed''' into existence and '''lawed''' through life and '''lawed''' out of it more than any other nation  }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1994|title=The Unbeliever  |author=Lisa Lewis  |page=58 |ISBN=0299144046 |passage=She knows what's tethered underwater. Not Children's bodies, but their toys, their lost, '''Lawed'''-against pleasures }}

====See also====
* [[Appendix:Legal terms]]
* [[Appendix:Glossary of legal terms]]
* [[:Category:Law]]
* {{l|en|lawe}}<!--declaw-->

===Etymology 2===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*ḱley-|id=incline}}
From {{inh|en|enm|lawe}}, from {{inh|en|ang|hlāw|t=burial mound}}. Also spelled [[low]].

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[tumulus]] of [[stone#Noun|stones]].
# {{lb|en|Northern England|Scotland|archaic}} A [[hill]].
#* {{RQ:Stevenson Across the Plains|part=I|page=209|passage=[Y]ou might climb the '''Law''', where the whale's jawbone stood landmark in the buzzing wind, and behold the face of many counties, and the smoke and spires of many towns, and the sails of distant ships.}}

===Etymology 3===
From {{inh|en|enm|lagh}}, from {{der|en|non|lag|t=that which is lying or laid, position, price, way, sting, blow}}, from {{der|en|gem-pro|*lagą|t=that which is laid}}. Cognate with {{cog|sco|lauch|t=one's tavern-reckoning or one's share of the cost, a score; a payment for drink or entertainment}}, {{cog|enm|lai|t=one's share of expenses, one's bill or account}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|dialectal|or|obsolete}} A [[score]]; [[share]] of [[expense]]; [[legal]] [[charge]].

=====Related terms=====
* {{l|en|lawing}}

===Etymology 4===
Compare {{m|en|la}} and {{m|en|Lawd}}.

====Interjection====
{{en-interj}}

# {{lb|en|dated}} An exclamation of mild surprise; [[lawks]]; {{n-g|in interjections, a minced oath for {{m|en|Lord}}.}}
#* '''1791-92''', {{w|Jane Austen}}, ‘The Three Sisters’, ''Juvenilia'':
#*: ‘Do tell me once for all, whether you intend to marry Mr Watts or not?’ ‘'''Law''' Mama, how can I tell you what I don't know myself?’
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1870|author=Arthur William A'Beckett|title=The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal of Satire|page=104
|text={{...}} and my boots were a ''leetle'' 'eavier than they are, '''law''' bless my soul! I'd do it myself.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|date=2024-03-01|author=Arthur Sketchley|title=Mrs. Brown on the Skating Rink|publisher=BoD – Books on Demand|isbn=9783385362079|page=127
|text=Arthur Sketchley. But, '''law''' bless my 'art , it's werry orful to be a forriner, as I were a-thinkin', and never be able to make yourself understood, except in that gibberish,}}

=====Related terms=====
* {{l|en|laws||minced oath for 'Lord'}}

=====References=====
* {{quote-book|en|date=2021-10-21|author=Harold F. Farwell|author2=J. Karl Nicholas|title=Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech Based on the Research of Horace Kephart|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=9780813183947
|text=Laws-a-mighty me! Law bless my heart! Laws-a-mercy! (J 2:607). "Laws-a-marcy, how it does hurt!" (B 303). "I'm a-waitin' fer Jim Johnson, and with the help of the Lawd I'm goin' to blow his damn head off" (B 347).}}

===References===
[http://ordnet.dk/ods/opslag?opslag=lov&submit=S%F8g Etymology] in [[:w:da:ODS|ODS]]

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=alw|AWL|WAL|WLA|Wal.|awl|lwa}}

{{C|en|Directives|Law|Sciences}}

==Fula==

===Adverb===
{{head|ff|adverb}}

# [[early]]

===References===
* {{R:Bah 2014}}

{{c|ff|Time}}

==Khumi Chin==
[[Image:The Bangkok Supermoon Photographs by Peak Hora 10.jpg|thumb|Law (1).]]

===Etymology===
From {{inh|cnk|tbq-kuk-pro|*khlaa}}, from {{inh|cnk|sit-pro|*s/ɡ-la|*g-la}}. Cognates include {{cog|bo|ཟླ་བ}} and {{cog|my|လ}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|cnk|/lɔ˧/}}

===Noun===
{{head|cnk|noun}}

# [[moon]]
# [[month]]

===References===
* {{R:cnk:Shafer:1944|page=422}}
* {{R:cnk:Herr:2011|page=42}}

{{C|cnk|Celestial bodies|Time}}

==Lower Sorbian==
[[File:Lions Family Portrait Masai Mara.jpg|thumb|{{l|dsb||'''lawy'''}}]]

===Etymology===
From {{inh|dsb|sla-pro|*lьvъ}}, from {{der|dsb|ine-pro|*lewo-}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|dsb|/law/}}

===Noun===
{{dsb-noun|m-anml|dim=lawk|f=lawowka}}

# [[lion]] {{gloss|{{taxfmt|Panthera leo|species}}}}

====Declension====
{{dsb-decl-noun-17|law|animate=1}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|dsb|lawica}}
* {{l|dsb|lawik}}
* {{l|dsb|lawowy}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:dsb:Muka}}
* {{R:dsb:Starosta}}

{{c|dsb|Felids}}

==Middle English==

===Noun===
{{head|enm|noun}}

# {{alternative form of|enm|lawe}}

==Scots==

===Noun===
{{sco-noun}}

# {{l|en|law}}
# [[rounded]] [[hill]] {{gloss|usually conical, frequently isolated or conspicuous}}

===Adjective===
{{sco-adj|lawer|lawest}}

# {{l|en|low}}

==Sranan Tongo==

===Etymology===
Probably from {{der|srn|kg|kilawu}}, from {{der|srn|bnt-pro|*dadU}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|srn|/lau̯/}}

===Verb===
{{head|srn|verb}}

# To be [[crazy]]
#* {{quote-book|srn|title=Nieuwe en nooit bevoorens geziene Onderwyzinge in het Bastert, of Neeger Engels, zoo als het zelve in de Hollandsze Colonien gebruikt word|trans-title=New and unprecedented instruction in Bastard or Negro English, as it is used in the Dutch colonies|author=Pieter van Dyk|location=Frankfurt/Madrid|publisher=Iberoamericana|year= ca. 1765|page=22|url=https://apics-online.info/sentences/1-32|text=Joe '''lau''' te moesi|norm=Yu '''law''' tumsi|translation=You are too '''crazy'''}}
# To drive somebody [[crazy]]
#* {{quote-book|srn|year=2005|title=Nyun-Grontapuvertaling fu den Kresten Griki Buku fu Bijbel|trans-title=New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures|location=Brooklyn, NY|publisher=Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania|section=Acts of the Apostles, chapter 26, verse 24|url=
https://wol.jw.org/srn/wol/b/r50/lp-sr/bi12/44/26#s=24&study=discover&v=44:26:26|text=Di Paulus kaba taki gi ensrefi, Festus taki nanga wan tranga sten: „Yu e kon law, Paulus! Den kefalek sani di yu leri '''e law yu'''!”
|translation=When Paul was done speaking up for himself, Festus said with a loud voice: “You lost your mind, Paul! The great things you learnt '''are driving you insane'''!”}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|srn|lawman}}

==Upper Sorbian==

===Etymology===
{{inh+|hsb|sla-pro|*lь̀vъ}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{hsb-IPA}}
* {{rhymes|hsb|aw|s=1}}
* {{hyph|hsb|law}}
* {{hyph|hsb|caption=Syllabification|law}}

===Noun===
{{hsb-noun|m-anml}}

# {{lb|hsb|zoology}} [[lion]] {{gl|{{taxfmt|Panthera leo|species}}}}

====Declension====
{{hsb-ndecl|m.anml.locje}}

===References===
* {{R:hsb:Soblex}}

{{C|hsb|Mammals}}

==Welsh==

===Noun===
{{head|cy|mutated noun}}

# {{soft mutation of|cy|glaw||[[rain]]}}

====Mutation====
{{cy-mut|glaw}}

===Noun===
{{head|cy|mutated noun}}

# {{soft mutation of|cy|llaw||[[hand]]}}

====Mutation====
{{cy-mut|llaw}}