lab

English

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Wikipedia

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /læb/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

Noun

lab (plural labs)

(colloquial) A laboratory.
- 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:
  I was working in the lab late one night
  When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
  For my monster, from his slab, began to rise
  And suddenly, to my surprise
  He did the Mash
  He did the Monster Mash.
- 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23:
  A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
(colloquial) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.
I dropped my mixture while doing my lab, so I had to start over.

Derived terms

Translations

laboratory — see laboratory

Etymology 2

Noun

lab (plural labs)

(colloquial) A Labrador retriever.

Derived terms

choco lab

Translations

Labrador retriever

Finnish: labbis (fi), labukka, labradori

Anagrams

BLA, BAL, Alb., alb, bla, abl.

Albanian

Etymology

From lëpe, lëbozë. Historically the inhabitants of the Labëria (“the land of lab”) region. Compare Illyrian *Labeati.^[1]

Alternatively a back-formation based on Labëri (“Laberia”), borrowed from an unattested South Slavic *labanьja < *olbanьja, rendering the native pre-Albanian name of the country; Albania, Ἀλβανία (Albanía). However, this is doubtful.^[2]

Noun

lab m (labe, f.)

southern Albanian (male)
(male person from Labëri (“land of lab”), Labëria (“the land of lab”))

Related terms

References

^ Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992, →ISBN, page 172, "...area, including Oaneum on a river Aratus, which controlled the route leading west to the kingdom of Gentius among the Labeates around Vlora (Valona) here is in real the Labeates not in Shkodra,this part these pieces of land are called again today Labëria (Labeati)."
^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lab”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 208-9

Danish

Etymology

Cognate of Swedish labb (“paw”).

Noun

lab c (singular definite labben, plural indefinite labber)

paw

Inflection

Declension of lab

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lab	labben	labber	labberne
genitive	labs	labbens	labbers	labbernes

Verb

lab

imperative of labbe

Dutch

Alternative forms

labo

Etymology

Short for laboratorium

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

lab n (plural labs, diminutive labje n)

(Netherlands) lab

Lhao Vo

Etymology

Cognate with Lashi loeb and Burmese လှုပ် (hlup).

Verb

lab

to move; to stir.

References

Dr. Ola Hanson, A Dictionary of the Kachin Language (1906).

Narua

Noun

lab

wing

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈlab/ [ˈlaβ̞]
Rhymes: -ab
Syllabification: lab

Noun

lab m (plural labs)

lab (laboratory)

Zhuang

Pronunciation

(Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /laːp˧/
Tone numbers: lab⁸
Hyphenation: lab

Etymology 1

From Chinese 蠟 (MC lap, “wax; candle”).

Noun

lab (Sawndip forms 曪 or 腊, 1957–1982 spelling lab)

candle

Etymology 2

From Chinese 臘 (MC lap, “cured meat”).

Verb

lab (Sawndip forms 曪 or 腊, 1957–1982 spelling lab)

to cure (meat) by drying or smoking

Adjective

lab (Sawndip forms 曪 or 腊, 1957–1982 spelling lab)

cured; dried; smoked

Derived terms

ndwenlab

[1] Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992, →ISBN, page 172, "...area, including Oaneum on a river Aratus, which controlled the route leading west to the kingdom of Gentius among the Labeates around Vlora (Valona) here is in real the Labeates not in Shkodra,this part these pieces of land are called again today Labëria (Labeati)."

[2] Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lab”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 208-9

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