lá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "la"

Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɔɑː/
Rhymes: -ɔɑː
Homophone: lág
Rhymes: -ɔaː

Verb

lá

first/third-person singular past of at liggja

Conjugation

Conjugation of liggja (irregular)
infinitive	liggja
supine	ligið
participle (a26)¹	liggjandi	ligin
	present	past
first singular	liggi	lá
second singular	liggur	lást
third singular	liggur	lá
plural	liggja	lógu
	imperative
singular	ligg!
plural	liggið!
¹Only the past participle being declined.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈlaː]
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -laː

Noun

solmisation

lá (plural lák)

la, a syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale
Coordinate terms: dó, ré, mi, fá, szó, ti

Declension

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	lá	lák
accusative	lát	lákat
dative	lának	láknak
instrumental	lával	lákkal
causal-final	láért	lákért
translative	lává	lákká
terminative	láig	lákig
essive-formal	láként	lákként
essive-modal	lául	—
inessive	lában	lákban
superessive	lán	lákon
adessive	lánál	láknál
illative	lába	lákba
sublative	lára	lákra
allative	lához	lákhoz
elative	lából	lákból
delative	láról	lákról
ablative	lától	láktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	láé	láké
non-attributive possessive - plural	láéi	lákéi

Possessive forms of lá
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	lám	láim
2nd person sing.	lád	láid
3rd person sing.	lája	lái
1st person plural	lánk	láink
2nd person plural	látok	láitok
3rd person plural	lájuk	láik

or (as a means of distinction from certain inflected forms of lát (“to see”))

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	lá	lá-k
accusative	lá-t	lá-kat
dative	lá-nak	lá-knak
instrumental	lá-val	lá-kkal
causal-final	lá-ért	lá-kért
translative	lá-vá	lá-kká
terminative	lá-ig	lá-kig
essive-formal	lá-ként	lá-kként
essive-modal	lá-ul	—
inessive	lá-ban	lá-kban
superessive	lá-n	lá-kon
adessive	lá-nál	lá-knál
illative	lá-ba	lá-kba
sublative	lá-ra	lá-kra
allative	lá-hoz	lá-khoz
elative	lá-ból	lá-kból
delative	lá-ról	lá-król
ablative	lá-tól	lá-któl
non-attributive possessive - singular	lá-é	lá-ké
non-attributive possessive - plural	lá-éi	lá-kéi

Possessive forms of lá
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	lá-m	lá-im
2nd person sing.	lá-d	lá-id
3rd person sing.	lá-ja	lá-i
1st person plural	lá-nk	lá-ink
2nd person plural	lá-tok	lá-itok
3rd person plural	lá-juk	lá-ik

Anagrams

ál

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse *lá, from Proto-Germanic *lahaną (“to blame”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lauː/
Rhymes: -auː

Verb

lá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative láði, supine láð)

to blame
Ég lái Önnu það ekki.
I don't blame Anna for it.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Verb

lá

first/third-person singular past indicative active of liggja

Noun

lá f (genitive singular lár, nominative plural lár)

the part of the sea near to the shore
billow (large wave)

Declension

declension of lá

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
f-s1	singular		plural
nominative	lá	láin	lár	lárnar
accusative	lá	lána	lár	lárnar
dative	lá	lánni	lám	lánum
genitive	lár	lárinnar	láa	lánna

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lá.

Pronunciation

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠɑː/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠaː/
Homophone: láth

Noun

lá m (genitive singular lae, nominative plural laethanta)

day
1. 1. daytime
  2. daylight, dawn
  3. twenty-four-hour period
2. 1. particular day
  2. particular date
  3. particular occasion
  4. particular festival, etc.
3. occupied portion of day
4. day of action
5. current time
6. 1. lifetime
  2. period
7. point in time

Declension

Declension of lá

Irregular

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lá	laethanta
Vocative	a lá	a laethanta
Genitive	lae	laethanta
Dative	lá ló (archaic, dialectal)	laethanta laethantaibh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an lá	na laethanta
Genitive	an lae	na laethanta
Dative	leis an lá leis an ló (archaic, dialectal) don lá don ló (archaic, dialectal)	leis na laethanta leis na laethantaibh (archaic, dialectal)

Alternative genitive singular: laoi (archaic, dialectal)
Alternative plural: laetha, laethe (archaic, dialectal)
Alternative dative plural: laethibh (archaic, dialectal)

Derived terms

ardlá
breithlá
go lá dheireadh an domhain
go maire tú an lá!
Lá Aibreáin
Lá an Dreoilín
Lá an tSléibhe
lá breithe
lá breithe maith agat!
lá breithe sona dhuit!
Lá Fhéile Eoin
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
Lá Fhéile Vailintín
lá margaidh
Lá na nAmadán
lá níocháin
Lá San Vailintín
lá sorcais

Mandarin

Alternative forms

la (nonstandard)

Romanization

lá (la², Zhuyin ㄌㄚˊ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 拉.
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 揦.
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 旯.
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 砬.
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 磖.
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 邋.

Navajo

Particle

lá

it occurred to me (emphasizes a statement, or turns it into an exclamation, usually indicating recently discovered knowledge)
Ashxoshgo tłʼízí shichʼahkʼįįʼí yę́ę sitsʼą́ą́ʼ yiyííłchozh lá. ― While I was sleeping the goat ate my straw hat.

Derived terms

lágo

Old Irish

Etymology 1

Unknown. Thurneysen has tried to derive this term from the contraction of its synonym laithe, itself from Proto-Celtic *latyom, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁t- (“warm part of the year”), and cognate with Proto-Slavic *lěto n (“summer, year”).[1] Hence, in the original versions of the Dictionary of the Irish Language, lá and laithe were formerly given in the same entry. However, Stifter remains skeptical of this etymology (and believes that the two words are not closely related at all), and eventually the 2019 edition of DIL separated the two terms into separate entries.

Alternative forms

láa, lae

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /l͈aː(e)/

Noun

lá n (genitive laí, nominative plural lá or láa or lae)

day, daylight
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 25^c6
  Hóre ammi maicc laí et soilse, ná seichem nahísiu.
  Since we are children of day and light, let us not follow these things.
Synonym: laithe
(in adverbial phrases) Denoting point in time.

Usage notes

This noun, when used as a temporal reference, only referred to daytime. To refer to an event taking place across the course of a calendar day or more, a matching number of aidchi (“nights”) must be additionally specified. For example, an event occurring over three days would occur over trí láa ocus teora aidchi "three days and three nights" in Old Irish.

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	lá, lae, láa	lá, lae, láa	lá, lae, láa
Vocative	lá, lae, láa	lá, lae, láa	lá, lae, láa
Accusative	lá, lae, láa	lá, lae, láa	lá, lae, láa
Genitive	laí	lá, lae, láa	lá, lae, láa
Dative	láu, láo, ló	láib	láib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

lá brátha

Descendants

Irish: lá
Manx: laa
Scottish Gaelic: latha

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *layeti, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“to leave”).[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /l͈aː/

Verb

·lá (verbal noun -l)

unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs

Derived terms

Terms derived from ·lá

ad·comla
con·lá
do·inóla
do·lá
in·lá

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
lá also llá after a proclitic	lá pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 283
Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*la-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 235

Old Norse

Noun

lá f (genitive lár, plural lár)

the line of the shoal water along the shore

Declension

Declension of lá (strong ō-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
feminine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lá	láin	lár	lárnar
accusative	lá	láina	lár	lárnar
dative	lá	láinni	lám	lánum
genitive	lár	lárinnar	lá	lánna

Descendants

Icelandic: lá

References

lá in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
lá in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lá

first/third-person singular past active indicative of liggja

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈla/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈla/

Rhymes: -a
Hyphenation: lá

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese ala, from Latin ad (“to”) + illāc (“that way”).

Alternative forms

là, lâ (obsolete)

Adverb

lá (not comparable)

there (in that place, far from both the speaker and the audience)
Minha casa fica lá. ― My house is located there.
Synonym: acolá
Antonyms: aqui, cá
Coordinate terms: aí, ali
used with an adverb phrase to indicate that something is far
O Santo Graal está lá no topo do castelo. ― The Holy Grail is on top of the castle.
A verdade está lá fora. ― The truth is out there.
(informal, in negative phrases) that; particularly (to a significant extent)
Para andorinhas, carregar cocos não é lá tão difícil. ― For swallows, carrying coconuts isn’t that hard.
Synonyms: de fato, na verdade, realmente
(informal, in interrogative phrases) even (expresses intensified disagreement with a previous sentence)
E ele lá entende o que você diz? ― And does he even understand what you say?
Synonym: por acaso

Usage notes

ali also means there, but implies a relatively close location. aí is also translated as there but it is used for things close to the audience.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lá.

Derived terms

de lá para cá
para lá de
para lá de Bagdá
sei lá

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian la, from the first syllable of Latin labiī (“lip’s”).

Noun

lá m (plural lás)

(music) la (sixth note of a major scale, in solfège)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lá.

Coordinate terms

do, ré, mi, fá, sol, si, dó

Interjection

lá

meaningless syllable used in joyful singing
Trá-lá-lá-lá-lá. ― Tra-la-la-la-la

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *s-laːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *slaʔ. Cognate with Thavung ซะล้า, Khmer ស្លា (slaa, “areca”), Bahnar hla, Mon သၠ (hlaˀ), Khasi sla, Semai sela. Related to Chinese 茶 (tea), which was a Loloish loan that in turn was borrowed from Austroasiatic.

Doublet of trà and chè.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laː˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [laː˨˩˦]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [laː˦˥]
Audio (Hà Nội) (file)
Audio (Hồ Chí Minh City) (file)

Noun

(classifier chiếc) lá • (𦲿 - 蘿, 萝)

a leaf
Chiếc lá cuối cùng ― The Last Leaf

Derived terms

lá lành đùm lá rách (“healthy leaves envelop torn leaves”)
lá lốt
nhà lá
thông rụng lá (“larch”)
thuốc lá (“tobacco, cigarette”)

Classifier

lá

Used for thin and flat and/or leaf-like objects, such as letters, cards, flags, leaf-shaped organs (such as the liver, the lungs, the spleen, the pancreas), etc.
lá thư/bài/cờ/gan ― a letter/card/flag/liver
Rừng mưa A-ma-dôn là lá phổi xanh của Trái Đất.
The Amazon rainforest is the green lung of the Earth.

Adjective

lá

(rare, literary) green

[1] Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 283

[2] Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*la-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 235

lá

Faroese

Pronunciation

Verb

Conjugation

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Further reading

Anagrams

Icelandic

Etymology

Pronunciation

Verb

Conjugation

Verb

Noun

Declension

Irish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Mandarin

Alternative forms

Romanization

Navajo

Particle

Derived terms

Old Irish

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

Usage notes

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

Derived terms

Mutation

References

Old Norse

Noun

Declension

Descendants

References

Etymology 2

Verb

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Adverb

Usage notes

Quotations

Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

Quotations

Coordinate terms

Interjection

Vietnamese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Classifier

Adjective