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• IPA^(key): /lɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

From Latin labii, from the first word of the sixth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn on which solfège was based because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

• lah

la (plural las)

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     And now Mrs Waters (for we must confess she was in the same bed), being, I suppose, awakened from her sleep, and seeing two men fighting in her bedchamber, began to scream in the most violent manner, crying out murder! robbery! and more frequently rape! which last, some, perhaps, may wonder she should mention, who do not consider that these words of exclamation are used by ladies in a fright, as fa, la, la, ra, da, &c., are in music, only as the vehicles of sound, and without any fixed ideas.

• (music): do, re, mi, fa, sol, ti

Sound used to form meaningless song refrains. Of imitative origin. Compare Old English la, a common exclamation, Ancient Greek λαλαγε (lalage, “babble”), German lallen (“to babble”).

la

1. Represents the sound of music or singing.

   "La la la la, I can't hear you!" Jimmy said, sticking his fingers in his ears.

   I couldn't make out the words of the song, it was just a bunch of la la la as far as I could hear.

From Middle English la, from Old English lā. More at lo.

• law

la

1. (obsolete) Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.
2. (archaic) Expressing surprise, anger. etc.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     La, ma'am, what doth your la'ship think? the girl that your la'ship saw at church on Sunday, whom you thought so handsome; though you would not have thought her so handsome neither, if you had seen her nearer, but to be sure she hath been carried before the justice for being big with child.

   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, vol. III ch. 2:

     “Oh, la! here come the Richardsons. I had a vast deal more to say to you, but I must not stay away from them any longer.”

From French la, Italian la.

la (not comparable)

1. Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).
   • 2007, Kate Carter, The Guardian, 22 Nov 2007:

     Following lukewarm on the heels of an article a few weeks ago, where (I paraphrase due to having filed the relevant copy in the recycling bin) Victoria Beckham made a "well-meaning" remark that the other Spice Girls might want to lose a few pounds, we now have a new incidence of La Beckham's scintillating and entirely well-meaning humour.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, page 232:

     By judicious leaking, he also managed to make la Kirkpatrick and her associates look rather unsavory.

Possibly a shortened form of lad.

la (plural las)

1. (Liverpudlian) lad, lid

• & al., -al, AL, Al, a.l., al, al-

• IPA^(key): [lɑː]

la (plural [please provide])

1. (music) la (solfège)

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• IPA^(key): /ɭa/

la

1. fish

From Latin illac. Compare Romanian la.

la

1. at
2. by

From Latin illa(m).

la f sg (masculine el, neuter lo, masculine plural los, feminine plural les)

1. (definite) the

• The article la contracts to l' before a word beginning with a or ha: l'asturiana (the Asturian), l'habitación (the habitation)

la

1. her (third-person singular feminine direct pronoun)

• IPA^(key): /lə/

From Old Occitan la, from Latin illa(m).

la f (masculine el, masculine plural els, feminine plural les)

1. the; feminine singular definite article

The article la is contracted to l' before a vowel or h-, except before a following (h)i- or (h)u-.

la (enclitic and proclitic, contracted proclitic l')

1. her (direct object)

la m (plural las)

1. (music) la (sixth note of a diatonic scale)

• “la” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

la

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

From Latin illa(m).

la

1. the; feminine singular definite article

• el
• i
• le

• IPA^(key): /laː/

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• Hyphenation: la
• Rhymes: -aː

From earlier lade, from Middle Dutch lāde, from Old Dutch *latha, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþō.

la f (plural la's, diminutive laatje n)

1. drawer

• lade

• bureaula
• schuifla

• Afrikaans: laai

la f (plural la's, diminutive laatje n)

1. la (music)

• al

From Latin illa(m), feminine form of ille.

• IPA^(key): /la/
• Hyphenation: la

la f sg (plural al, el, li)

1. the

la (personal)

1. (nominative case) she
2. (accusative case) her

• Becomes l’ before a vowel.
• Becomes -la when acting as an enclitic.

Borrowed from French la, Italian la, Spanish la.

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• Hyphenation: la

la

1. the

   la libro — the book

   la libroj — the books

   la angla lingvo — the English language

   la angla — (the) English (language) (clipped form)

• l' (poetic)

From lauantai.

la

1. Abbreviation of lauantai (“Saturday”).

• IPA^(key): /la/

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• Homophones: là, las

From Old French la, from Latin illam, which is the accusative singular feminine of ille.[1]

la f sg

1. the (definite article).

la

1. her, it (direct object).

la m (plural la)

1. (music) la, the note 'A'.

• là

• “la” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin illa(m).

la f sg (plural lis)

1. the

• lis, il

la f (accusative)

1. Alternative form of a (“her”)

The l- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, and is suffixed to the preceding word

• a
• lo
• na

la m (plural las)

1. (music) la (sixth note of the scale)
2. (music) A (the musical note or key)

• (musical notes) nota musical; dó, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si ^{(Category: gl:Music)}

From Old Portuguese lãa, from Latin lāna.

• laa

la f (uncountable)

1. wool

From Portuguese lá. Cognates with Kabuverdianu la.

la

1. there

From French l'art

la

1. art

la

1. the (definite article)

Use this article only after a word that ends with an oral (non-nasal) vowel and an oral consonant, in that order, and when it modifies a singular noun.

• a
• an
• lan
• nan
• yo
• yon

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɒ]

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la

1. (archaic) used in dialects at the end of an exclamatory sentence as an emphasis

   ott van la! - there it is!

2. a syllable used when singing a tune without lyrics

• (apocopic form) l'

• IPA^(key): /la/

Borrowed from Esperanto la, from French la, Italian la, Spanish la.

la (plural le)

1. the

Borrowed from English la, French la, Italian la, Spanish la, Portuguese lá, German A, Russian ля (lja).

la (plural le la or lai)

1. (music) la

la

1. (accusative) her
2. (dative) to her

From Latin illa(m), feminine of ille.

la f sg (masculine el)

1. feminine singular definite article the
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 29:

     Ti son la manduleîna inzucherada.

     You are the sugared almond.

• IPA^(key): /la/
• Rhymes: -a

From Latin illa(m), feminine form of ille.[1]

la f sg (plural le)

1. the

The article la elides with words that begin with a vowel, becoming l'.

la f sg (plural le, masculine lo)

1. (accusative) her, it

   La vedo. ― I see her.

   • Pasolini

     […] una improvvisa timidezza però la immobilizza […]

     […] a sudden timidity immobilized her though […]

2. (accusative, formal) you (term of respect)

   La vedo. ― I see you.

   Scusi se la disturbo. ― Sorry to bother you.

• -la (enclitic)

la m (invariable)

1. (music) la (musical note)
2. (music) A (musical note and scale)

• la maggiore
• la minore

• La (nota) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• al

la

1. in

   Ni-nja la wawa-mu.

   They are below you.

   (literally, “They are in below you”)

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 127

From Portuguese lá.

la

1. there

-la- [1]

1. to leave, to go

   kula - thou goest

   kulosi - ye go

   bala - I will go

• kusisu, bala

• -wa-

From Latin illa(m).

la f (singular)

1. the

• The article la elides with words that begin with a vowel, becoming l'.

• l
• l'
• i
• les

la (Hebrew spelling לה, plural las, masculine el)

1. the (feminine singular)

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la (Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄚ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 啦
2. Pinyin transcription of 嚹
3. Pinyin transcription of 鞡
4. Pinyin transcription of 𤷟
5. Pinyin transcription of 𩋷

la

1. Nonstandard spelling of lā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of lá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of lǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of là.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

la

1. in

   Kak la marabay, Səmon kona aŋa Yuhana, kà uwana dza asik à uwana apə̀hakala dziriga uwaga aw, ama Baba gulo uwana la zagəla la afik la uwana apə̀hakala uwaga.(Mata 16:17)[1]

   Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.(Matthew 16:17)

2. from

   Ama ləv aŋatà kà kərkər la gi (Mata 15:8)[2]

   But their heart is far away from me. (Matthew 15:8)

From French la.

• IPA^(key): [la]

la f (masculine li, masculine and feminine plural lii)

1. the

From Old French la.

la f (masculine le, masculine and feminine plural les)

1. the

• French: la

From Old French la.

• là (circa 1550)

la

1. there

• French: là

From Latin illa(m).

la f (plural las, masculine l, masculine plural ls)

1. the

la

1. Alternative form of 'a

From Old French la, from Latin illa(m).

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la f (plural les)

1. (Jersey) the (feminine singular definite article)

• la beque ― the spade

  la crôte ― the crust

  la léçon ― the lesson

  la tâsse ― the cup

• (gender) lé

From the verb late

la (imperative la, present tense lar, simple past lot, past participle latt)

1. to let

   La sovende hunder ligge. - Let sleeping dogs lie.

From Old Norse hlaða

la (imperative la, present tense lar, simple past ladde, past participle ladd)

1. alternative form of lade

la

1. simple past of legge

• “la” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /lɑː/

From Old Norse láta. Akin to English let.

• lata
• late

la (present tense lèt or lar, past tense lét or let, past participle late or latt, imperative la)

1. let, allow

   La meg få gjera det.

   Let me do it.

la

1. past tense of leggja, leggje, legga and legge

• “la” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

la

1. she; her

• las
• lo
• le

From Old Occitan la, from Latin illa(m).

la (masculine lo, feminine plural las, masculine plural los)

1. the; feminine singular definite article

From Latin illa(m).

la

1. the (feminine singular oblique definite article)
2. the (feminine singular nominative definite article)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Trop avons fet grant reposee,
     Recomançomes la meslee!

     We have rested too much

     Let's restart the battle! (literally, the mix)

la

1. it (feminine singular object pronoun)

• le

From a form of Proto-Celtic *letos (“side”), from which leth.

• IPA^(key): /la/

la (with the accusative)

1. with
2. belonging to
   • 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. 6b22

     Ní latt aní ara·rethi et ní lat in cách forsa mmitter.

     What you assail is not yours, and not everyone whom you judge is yours.

Combinations with a definite article:

• lassin (masculine and feminine singular)
• lassa (neuter singular)
• lasna (plural)

Combinations with a possessive determiner:

• lam (“with my”)
• lat (“with your sg”)
• lia (“with his/her/its/their”)
• liar (“with our”)

Combinations with a relative pronoun:

• lassa (“with which”)

• Irish: le
• Manx: lesh
• Scottish Gaelic: le

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “la”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

From Latin illa(m).

la (masculine lo)

1. the; feminine singular definite article

• Catalan: la
• Occitan: la

• IPA^(key): /lɐ/

la

1. Alternative form of a (third-person feminine singular objective pronoun) used as an enclitic and mesoclitic following a verb form ending in a consonant (-z, -r and -s, but not -m); the consonant is elided and the preceding vowel takes an accent if necessary

• ла (Moldavia)

• IPA^(key): /la/
• Rhymes: -a

From Latin illac.

la (+accusative)

1. at
2. to, towards

From Latin lavāre, present active infinitive of lavō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”).

• (Transylvania) lăia

a la (third-person singular present lă, past participle lăut) 1st conj.

1. (uncommon) to wash (especially the head)

• se spăla, scălda, îmbăia

• lăutoare, lăutură

• lături
• lăun
• spăla

la

1. sun

la

1. name

• Basic Vocabulary, page 63

From Latin illa(m), from ille.

la f sg (plural li)

1. the

la

1. these; class 6 proximal demonstrative.

• IPA^(key): /la/

From Old Spanish ela, from Latin illa(m), feminine singular of ille.

la f sg (masculine el, feminine plural las, masculine plural los)

1. the

la

1. accusative of ella, ello (when the antecedent's implied gender is feminine), and usted (when referring to a woman); her, it, you (formal)
2. Impersonal neuter pronoun (accusative) in certain colloquial phrases: 'it', 'this'.

   La sabe toda.

   He/she knows everything (it all)

   ¡Dónde la viste!

   Where have you seen this!

   No te la creo.

   I don't believe you.

• Sometimes used where English would prefer a possessive: "Tengo algo en la bolsa" (literally, I have something in the bag) as opposed to "Tengo algo en mi bolsa". (I have something in my bag).

• lo
• saberla
• pasarla
• jugársela
• buscarsela
• verla

la m (plural las)

1. (music) la (sixth note of the scale)
2. (music) A (the musical note or key)

• (musical notes) nota musical; do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si ^{(Category: es:Music)}

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ́a.

-la (infinitive kula)

1. to eat
2. (by extension) to consume, to eradicate