lova

See also: Lova, lóvá, and løva

Ajië

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [lova]

Noun

lova

  1. dog

References

Faroese

Verb

lova (third person singular past indicative lovaði, third person plural past indicative lovað, supine lovað)

  1. to praise

Conjugation

French

Verb

lova

  1. third-person singular past historic of lover

Anagrams

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese louvar.

Verb

lova

  1. to praise

References

  • Luigi Scantamburlo, Dicionário do guineense, volume 2, Edições FASPEBI.

Hungarian

Etymology

From the *lov- stem of ló (“horse”) +‎ -a (“possessive suffix”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlovɒ]
  • Hyphenation: lo‧va

Noun

lova

  1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of ló
    Esik az eső, hajlik a vessző, haragszik a katona, mert megázik a lova.
    It's raining, the cane is bending, the soldier is angry because his horse is getting wet. (Hungarian children's song)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative lova —
accusative lovát —
dative lovának —
instrumental lovával —
causal-final lováért —
translative lovává —
terminative lováig —
essive-formal lovaként —
essive-modal lovául —
inessive lovában —
superessive lován —
adessive lovánál —
illative lovába —
sublative lovára —
allative lovához —
elative lovából —
delative lováról —
ablative lovától —

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lawˀaˀ; compare Latvian lâva, Russian лава (lava), лавка (lavka, “bench”), Slovene lava (“sideboard”). From Proto-Indo-European *lewH-. Cognates may include Old Norse lófi, láfi (“threshing barn”), Sanskrit लुनाति (lunā́ti, “cut, divide”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈloː.ʋɐ/

Noun

lóva f (plural lóvos) stress pattern 1

  1. bed (furniture used for sleeping)
  2. (dialectal) bed (garden plot)

Declension

Synonyms

  • (furniture for sleeping): patalas
  • (garden plot): lysvė, ežia

Derived terms

  • lovelė
  • lovatiesė

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish lava.

Noun

lova

  1. bedstead

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

lova

  1. simple past of love
  2. past participle of love

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈloːʋɑ/

Noun

lova m, f

  1. definite feminine singular of lov

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lofa.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²loːʋɑ/

Verb

lova (present tense lovar or lover, past tense lova or lovde, past participle lova or lovt or lovd, present participle lovande, imperative lov)

  1. to promise
  2. to bode (as in to bode well)

References

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse lofa, from Proto-Germanic *lubōną.

Verb

lova

  1. to permit, allow
  2. to praise

Conjugation

Descendants

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Romani lova. Compare Russian лавэ (lavɛ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lǒːʋa/
  • Hyphenation: lo‧va

Noun

lóva f (Cyrillic spelling ло́ва)

  1. (slang) money, dough
    Žao mi je, ali nemam love.
    I'm sorry, but I am out of dough.

Declension

Synonyms

References

  • “lova” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish lova, from Old Norse lofa, from Proto-Germanic *lubōną. Cognate with Danish love, Norwegian love, Dutch loven and German loben.

Pronunciation

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Verb

lova (present lovar, preterite lovade, supine lovat, imperative lova)

  1. to promise; to commit to something
  2. to assure; to give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something)
  3. to praise
Conjugation
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch loeven. Cognate with Danish luve. Dutch loeven belongs to Dutch loef.

Verb

lova (present lovar, preterite lovade, supine lovat, imperative lova)

  1. to turn a sailing boat more towards the wind
Conjugation
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