lav

• Rhymes: -æv

lav (plural lavs)

1. (Britain, slang) Clipping of lavatory.

   Please, miss, I need to go to the lav.

2. (film, informal) Clipping of lavalier.

   When you’re recording interviews, it’s best to use a lav.

• See Thesaurus:bathroom

• lavvy

• AVL, Val, Vla., val

Borrowed from Bislama lav (“to laugh”).

lav

1. to laugh

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

From Old Norse lágr (whence also English low and Norwegian Bokmål låg/lav)

lav

1. low

From Old Norse lag (“layer”) (plural lǫg (“legal”)).

lav n (singular definite lavet, plural indefinite lav)

1. guild

From Old Norse lafa (“to dangle”)

lav c (singular definite laven, plural indefinite laver)

or

lav n (singular definite lavet, plural indefinite laver)

1. lichen

lav

1. imperative of lave

From Old Norse lágr and Danish lav

• låg (Nynorsk also)

lav (neuter singular lavt, definite singular and plural lave, comparative lavere, indefinite superlative lavest, definite superlative laveste)

1. low

Related to the verb lave

lav m (definite singular laven, indefinite plural laver, definite plural lavene)
lav n (definite singular lavet, indefinite plural laver, definite plural lava or lavene)

1. lichen

• “lav” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From the verb lave

lav n (definite singular lavet, indefinite plural lav, definite plural lava)

1. lichen

• “lav” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /lâʋ/

lȁv m (Cyrillic spelling ла̏в)

1. lion (mammal)
2. (astronomy, astrology) Leo

lav c

1. lichen
2. bench in sauna

• bastulav
• lave

• lavskrika

From English love.

lav

1. love

lav (plural lavs)

1. wash, washing (the action or activity)

• lavön
• lavöp