lev

See also: lev-, lêv, Lev, Lev., лев, and Лев

English

Etymology

From Bulgarian лев (lev), a variant of лъв (lǎv, “lion”). Doublet of lion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛv/

Noun

lev (plural leva or levs)

1. The currency of Bulgaria, divided into 100 stotinki

Translations

currency of Bulgaria

• Arabic: لِيف (ar) m (līf), لِيف (ar) m (lef)
• Belarusian: леў m (ljeŭ)
• Bulgarian: лев m (lev)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 列弗 (lièfú)

• Czech: lev (cs) m
• Finnish: leva (fi)
• French: lev (fr) m
• German: Lew (de) m
• Greek: λεβ (lev)
• Hebrew: לב (he)
• Hungarian: leva (hu)
• Japanese: レフ (refu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 레프 (repeu)
• Macedonian: лев m (lev)
• Polish: lew (pl) m
• Portuguese: lev (pt) m
• Russian: лев (ru) m (lev)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лев m

  Roman: lev (sh) m

• Slovak: lev m
• Slovene: lev (sl) m
• Spanish: lev (es)
• Turkish: lev (tr)
• Ukrainian: лев (uk) m (lev)

Anagrams

• ELV, vel

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lьvъ, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛv/

Noun

1. lion
2. (heraldry) lion

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leːv/, [leːˀw], [lewˀ]

Verb

lev

1. imperative of leve

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lev

1. imperative of leve

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lev

1. imperative of leva

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Portuguese

Noun

lev m (plural s)

1. lev (currency of Bulgaria)

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) leav
• (Vallader) leiv

Etymology

From Latin levis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“light”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛf/

Adjective

lev m (feminine singular leva, masculine plural levs, feminine plural levas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) light (of weight)
2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) easy

Synonyms

• (Puter, Vallader) liger

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛu̯/
• Homophone: leu

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *lьvъ, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Noun

lev m (genitive singular leva, nominative plural levy, genitive plural levov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. lion

Declension

Declension of lev

	singular	plural
nominative	lev	levy
genitive	leva	levov
dative	levovi, levu	levom
accusative	leva	levy
locative	levovi, levu	levoch
instrumental	levom	levmi

Derived terms

• leví, levský
• levica f
• levíča n
• levíček m
• levík m
• levový

 

Etymology 2

From Bulgarian лев (lev).

Noun

lev m (genitive singular leva, nominative plural levy, genitive plural levov, declension pattern of dub)

1. lev, currency of Bulgaria

Declension

Declension of lev

	singular	plural
nominative	lev	levy
genitive	leva	levov
dative	levu	levom
accusative	lev	levy
locative	leve	levoch
instrumental	levom	levmi

References

• “lev”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lьvъ, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛ́ʋ/

Noun

lȅv m anim (female equivalent levínja)

1. lion

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	lèv
gen. sing.	lêva
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	lèv	lêva	lêvi
genitive (rodȋlnik)	lêva	lêvov	lêvov
dative (dajȃlnik)	lêvu	lêvoma	lêvom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	lêva	lêva	lêve
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	lêvu	lêvih	lêvih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	lêvom	lêvoma	lêvi

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	lèv
gen. sing.	léva
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	lèv	léva	lévi
genitive (rodȋlnik)	léva	lévov	lévov
dative (dajȃlnik)	lévu	lévoma	lévom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	léva	léva	léve
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	lévu	lévih	lévih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	lévom	lévoma	lévi

Derived terms

• lȇvček

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leːv/

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish lever, from Old Norse hleifr, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz. Cognate with Icelandic hleifur, English loaf, German Laib.

Noun

lev c

1. a loaf of bread

Declension

Declension of lev 1
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	lev	leven	levar	levarna
Genitive	levs	levens	levars	levarnas

Verb

lev

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of leva.

Etymology 2

From Bulgarian лев (lev, “lion”)

Noun

lev (plural leva)

1. lev, the currency of Bulgaria

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Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian лев (lev).

Noun

lev

1. lion

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “лев”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika