# lá
## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɔɑː/
* Rhymes: -ɔɑː
* Homophone: lág
* Rhymes: -ɔaː

### Verb

lá
* first/third-person singular past of liggja

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlaː]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -laː

### Noun

lá (plural lák)
* la, a syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale
    Coordinate terms: dó, ré, mi, fá, szó, ti

#### Declension

Its inflected forms are uncommon.
or (as a means of distinction from certain inflected forms of lát (“to see”))

### Further reading

* (Hungarian) An article on solfège with hand signs

### Anagrams

* ál

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lauː/
* Rhymes: -auː

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse *lá, from Proto-Germanic *lahaną (“to blame”).

#### Verb

lá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative láði, supine láð)
* to blame
    Ég lái Önnu það ekki.I don't blame Anna for it.

##### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Verb

lá
* first/third-person singular past indicative active of liggja

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse lá, from Proto-Germanic *lahō, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus.

#### Noun

lá f (genitive singular lár, nominative plural lár)
* the part of the sea near to the shore
* billow (large wave)

##### Declension
### Further reading

* “lá” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish lá.

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /l̪ˠɑː/
* (Ulster) IPA: /l̪ˠaː/
* Homophone: láth

### Noun

lá m (genitive singular lae, nominative plural laethanta)
* day

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
lá
laethanta
vocative
a lá
a laethanta
genitive
lae
laethanta
dative
lá ló (archaic, dialectal)
laethanta laethantaibh (archaic, dialectal)
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an lá
na laethanta
genitive
an lae
na laethanta
dative
leis an lá leis an ló (archaic, dialectal) don lá don ló (archaic, dialectal)
leis na laethanta leis na laethantaibh (archaic, dialectal) :
* Alternative genitive singular: laoi (archaic, dialectal)
* Alternative plural: laetha, laethe (archaic, dialectal)
* Alternative dative plural: laethibh (archaic, dialectal)

#### Derived terms

* ardlá
* breithlá
* go lá dheireadh an domhain
* go maire tú an lá!
* Lá Aibreáin
* Lá an Dreoilín
* Lá an tSléibhe
* lá arna mhárach
* lá breithe
* lá breithe maith agat!
* lá breithe sona dhuit!
* lá féile / Lá Fhéile
* lá margaidh
* Lá na nAmadán
* lá níocháin
* Lá San Vailintín
* lá saoire
* lá sorcais

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 77, page 42
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 205, page 78

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “lá”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “lá”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Mandarin
### Alternative forms

* la — nonstandard

### Romanization

lá (la$^2$, Zhuyin ㄌㄚˊ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 拉
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 揦
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 旯
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 砬
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 磖
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 邋

## Navajo
### Particle

lá
* it occurred to me (emphasizes a statement, or turns it into an exclamation, usually indicating recently discovered knowledge)
    Ashxoshgo tłʼízí shichʼahkʼįįʼí yę́ę sitsʼą́ą́ʼ yiyííłchozh lá. ― While I was sleeping the goat ate my straw hat.

#### Derived terms

* lágo

## Old Irish
### Etymology 1

Unknown. Thurneysen has tried to derive this term from the contraction of its synonym laithe, itself from Proto-Celtic *latyom, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁t- (“warm part of the year”), and cognate with Proto-Slavic *lěto n (“summer, year”). Hence, in the original versions of the Dictionary of the Irish Language, lá and laithe were formerly given in the same entry. However, Stifter remains skeptical of this etymology (and believes that the two words are not closely related at all), and eventually the 2019 edition of DIL separated the two terms into separate entries.

#### Alternative forms

* láa, lae

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /l͈aː(e)/

#### Noun

lá n (genitive laí, nominative plural lá or láa or lae)
* day, daylight
    Synonym: laithe
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    Hóre ammi maicc laí et soilse, ná seichem nahísiu.Since we are children of day and light, let us not follow these things.
* (in adverbial phrases) Denoting point in time.

##### Usage notes

This noun, when used as a temporal reference, only referred to daytime. To refer to an event taking place across the course of a calendar day or more, a matching number of aidchi (“nights”) must be additionally specified. For example, an event occurring over three days would occur over trí láa ocus teora aidchi "three days and three nights" in Old Irish.

##### Inflection

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

##### Derived terms

* lá brátha

##### Descendants

* Irish: lá
* Manx: laa
* Scottish Gaelic: là, lò

#### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *layeti, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“to leave”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /l͈aː/

#### Verb

·lá (verbal noun -l)
* unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs

##### Derived terms

* ad·comla
* con·lá
* do·inóla
* do·lá
* in·lá

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 283; reprinted 2017
* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*la-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 235

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *lahō, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus.

#### Noun

lá f (genitive lár, plural lár)
* the line of the shoal water along the shore

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: lá

##### Further reading

* Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “lá”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 376
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “lá”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 262; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
* page/262 Internet Archive]

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

lá
* first/third-person singular past active indicative of liggja

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* (Lesser Poland):
** (Podegrodzie) IPA: /lɒ/

### Preposition

lá
* (Sącz Lach) Alternative form of dla

### Further reading

* Karol Mátyás (1891) “lá”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludu zamieszkującego wschodnio-południową najbliższą okolicę Nowego Sącza”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, Kraków: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 324

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈla/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈla/
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: lá

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese ala, from Latin ad (“to”) + illāc (“that way”).

#### Alternative forms

* là, lâ (obsolete)

#### Adverb

lá (not comparable)
* there (in that place, far from both the speaker and the audience)
    Synonym: acolá
    Antonyms: aqui, cá
    Coordinate terms: aí, ali
    Minha casa fica lá. ― My house is located there.
* used with an adverb phrase to indicate that something is far
    O Santo Graal está lá no topo do castelo. ― The Holy Grail is on top of the castle.
    A verdade está lá fora. ― The truth is out there.
* used to emphasize a relative distant point in the past or in the future
    Os portugueses chegaram ao Brazil lá no século XV (quinze). ― The Portuguese arrived in Brazil back in the 15th century.
    Não se preocupa, ele só vai viajar lá em dezembro. ― Don't worry, he'll only travel in December.
* (informal, in negative phrases) that; particularly (to a significant extent)
    Synonyms: de fato, na verdade, realmente
    Para andorinhas, carregar cocos não é lá tão difícil. ― For swallows, carrying coconuts isn’t that hard.
* (informal, in interrogative phrases) even (expresses intensified disagreement with a previous sentence)
    Synonym: por acaso
    E ele lá entende o que você diz? ― And does he even understand what you say?

##### Usage notes

* ali also means there, but implies a relatively close location. aí is also translated as there but it is used for things close to the audience.

##### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lá.

##### Derived terms

* de lá para cá
* para lá de
* para lá de Bagdá
* sei lá

#### See also

Portuguese demonstratives :
| | | Pronouns | Pronouns | Pronouns | Pronouns | Pronouns | Adverbs |
| | | Singular | Singular | Plural | Plural | Neuter | Adverbs |
| | | Masculine | Feminine | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Adverbs |
| Proximal | X | este | esta | estes | estas | isto | aqui, cá |
| Proximal | de + X | deste | desta | destes | destas | disto | daqui |
| Proximal | em + X | neste | nesta | nestes | nestas | nisto | — |
| Medial | X | esse | essa | esses | essas | isso | aí |
| Medial | de + X | desse | dessa | desses | dessas | disso | daí |
| Medial | em + X | nesse | nessa | nesses | nessas | nisso | — |
| Distal | X | aquele | aquela | aqueles | aquelas | aquilo | ali, lá, acolá |
| Distal | de + X | daquele | daquela | daqueles | daquelas | daquilo | dali, dacolá |
| Distal | em + X | naquele | naquela | naqueles | naquelas | naquilo | — |
| Distal | a + X | àquele | àquela | àqueles | àquelas | àquilo | — |
| Anaphoric | X | o | a | os | as | — | — |
| Anaphoric | de + X | do | da | dos | das | — | — |
| Anaphoric | em + X | no | na | nos | nas | — | — |
| Anaphoric | a + X | ao | à | aos | às | — | — |

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian la, from the first syllable of Latin labiī (“lip’s”).

#### Noun

lá m (plural lás)
* (music) la (sixth note of a major scale, in solfège)

##### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lá.

##### Coordinate terms

* do, ré, mi, fá, sol, si, dó

### Etymology 3
#### Interjection

lá
* meaningless syllable used in joyful singing
    Trá-lá-lá-lá-lá. ― Tra-la-la-la-la

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *s-laːʔ, from Proto-Austroasiatic *slaʔ. Cognate with Thavung ซะล้า, Khmer ស្លា (slaa, “areca”), Bahnar hla, Mon သၠ (hlaˀ), Khasi sla, Semai sela. Related to Chinese 茶 (chá) (tea), which was a Loloish loan that in turn was borrowed from Austroasiatic.
Doublet of trà and chè.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [laː˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [laː˨˩˦]
* (Saigon) IPA: [laː˦˥]
* Audio (Hà Nội):(file)
* Audio (Saigon):(file)

### Noun

(classifier chiếc) lá • (蘿, 𦲿)
* leaf
    Synonym: lá cây
    Chiếc lá cuối cùng ― The Last Leaf

#### Derived terms

* lá cây
* lá chắn
* lá lách
* lá lành đùm lá rách
* lá lốt
* lá mía
* lá ngón
* lá sách
* lễ lá
* lớp lá
* nhà lá
* nón lá
* sán lá
* thông rụng lá
* thuốc lá
* xanh như tàu lá chuối
* xỏ lá

### Classifier

lá • (蘿, 𦲿)
* Used for thin and flat and/or leaf-like objects, such as letters, cards, flags, leaf-shaped organs (such as the liver, the lungs, the spleen, the pancreas), etc.
    lá thư/bài/cờ/gan ― a letter/card/flag/liver
    Rừng mưa A-ma-dôn là lá phổi xanh của Trái Đất.The Amazon rainforest is the green lung of the Earth.

### Adjective

lá • (蘿, 𦲿)
* (rare, literary) green