English

Pronunciation
IPA|/leɪv/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪv|-eɪv

Etymology 1
From L. lavare.

Verb
en-verb|lav|ing

1. archaic To wash.

#* 1789, William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from Fourteen Sonnets, 1789.
#*: the tranquil tide, / That laves the pebbled shore.
#* 2006, Cormac McCarthy?, The Road, London: Picador, 2007, p. 38.
#*: The boy walked out and squatted and laved up the dark water.

Related terms
top2
lather
launder
laundry
mid2
lavender
lavish

Etymology 2
OE. laf|l�f.

Noun
en-noun|-

1. obsolete The remainder; what is left.

#* 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 12.
#*: Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight.

Danish

Verb
lave

1. to make
2. to prepare

Category:Danish verbs

French

Pronunciation
w:IPA|IPA: /lav/
w:SAMPA|SAMPA: /lav/

Noun
lave f

1. lava

Verb form
lave

1. first-, third-person singular indicative present of laver
2. first-, third-person singular subjunctive present of laver
3. second-person singular imperative of laver

Category:French verb forms

Scottish
rfc|Is this Scottish Gaelic or Scots?

Noun
infl||noun

1. archaic, rest

Spanish

Verb form
lave

1. first-, third-person singular subjunctive present of lavar
2. third-person singular imperative of lavar

Category:Spanish verb forms

el:lave
fr:lave
io:lave
ja:lave
pl:lave
ru:lave
sk:lave
fi:lave
vi:lave
zh:lave

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