lafa

Adangme

Numeral

lafa

1. hundred

   sidi lafa

   a hundred cedis

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse lafa, from Proto-Germanic *labēn- (“to dangle”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːva/

  Rhymes: -aːva

Verb

lafa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative lafði, supine lafað)

1. to dangle, to hang loosely

Further reading

• Guus Kroonen (2013) “laben”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 321

Anagrams

• afla
• fala

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑː.fɑ/, [ˈlɑː.vɑ]

Noun

lāfa

1. nominative plural of lāf

Turkish

Noun

lafa

1. dative singular of laf