lava

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.

• (US), (UK) enPR: läʹvə, IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːvə/

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

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.

   lava colour:  

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

• lava flow

• lava lamp
• lava millstone
• lava ware

• aa
• pahoehoe

• Alva, aval

lava f (plural laves)

1. lava

Italian lava.

lava

1. lava

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

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Hyphenation: la‧va

lava c (uncountable)

1. lava

From Old East Slavic лава (lava), from Proto-Slavic *lava

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

1. stage

From Old East Slavic лава (lava), from Proto-Slavic *lava

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.)

• avolava
• kuormalava
• lavakuorma-auto
• lavashow
• lavasäteily
• tanssilava

• vala

lava

1. third-person singular past historic of laver

• aval

lava f (plural lavas)

1. lava

lava

1. third-person singular present indicative of lavare
2. second-person singular imperative of lavare

lava f (plural lave)

1. lava

• lavico

lavā

1. first-person singular present active imperative of lavō

From Italian lava (Neapolitan dialect)

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

1. (geology) lava

• lavastrøm

• lavene

lava m or n

1. definite neuter plural of lav

• “lava” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Italian lava (Neapolitan dialect)

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

1. (geology) lava

lava n

1. definite plural of lav

• “lava” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

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-

lava f (plural lavas)

1. lava (melted rock)

• magma

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

láva f (Cyrillic spelling ла́ва)

1. (geology) lava

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaba/, [ˈlaβa]

lava f (plural lavas)

1. lava
2. washing

lava

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of lavar.

Related to Finnish lava.

lava

1. floor
2. platform

• 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