# la
## Translingual
### Symbol

la
* (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Latin.

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɑː/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː

### Etymology 1

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English la (“sixth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian la in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin labiī (“lip's”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

#### Alternative forms

* lah

#### Noun

la (plural las)
* (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, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC: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.

##### Coordinate terms

* (music): do, re, mi, fa, sol, ti

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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

#### Interjection

la
* Represents the sound of music or singing.
    "La la la la, I can't hear you!" Jimmy said, sticking his fingers in his ears.
** 2019, Keira Brown, Between the Lines: Never in Plain Sight:The only part Lucy had to sing was the interlude, which was a bunch of la la la's, and the last verse of the song, which was only four lines, and the chorus, which was just as short.

### Etymology 3

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

#### Alternative forms

* law

#### Interjection

la
* (obsolete) Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.
* (archaic) Expressing surprise, anger. etc.
** 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC: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], chapter 2, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:“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.”
** 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:"La, William, don't be so highty-tighty with us. We're not men. We can't fight you," Miss Jane said.

### Etymology 4

From French la, Italian la.

#### Adjective

la (not comparable)
* Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).
** 2007 November 22, Kate Carter, The Guardian: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, published 2011, page 232:By judicious leaking, he also managed to make la Kirkpatrick and her associates look rather unsavory.

### Etymology 5

Possibly a shortened form of lad.

#### Noun

la (plural las)
* (Liverpool) lad, kid

##### Related terms

* lid (rhyming slang for kid)

### Etymology 6

From Cantonese 啦 (laa$^1$). Doublet of lah.

#### Pronunciation

* (Hong Kong) IPA: /lɑː˥/

#### Particle

la (Hong Kong, colloquial)
* Placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.
    Sleep la! ― [You should] go to bed.
    Eat shit la you! ― You're going to hell! (calque of 食屎啦你！)
* Used to tone down comments.
    ok la ― not bad; good enough

##### See also

* lor, wor

### Etymology 7
#### Particle

la
* (Singlish, Manglish) Alternative form of lah

### Anagrams

* Al, & al., AL, al, al-, -al, Ål, a.l.

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [lɑː]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

la (plural [please provide])
* (music) la (solfège)

### References

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

## Ama
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɭa/

### Noun

la
* fish

## Anguthimri
### Noun

la
* (Mpakwithi) black snake

### References

* Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin illa (“that one”).

### Pronoun

la
* her (direct object)

## Aromanian
### Etymology

From Latin illac. Compare Romanian la.

### Preposition

la
* at
* by

## Asturian
### Alternative forms

* lla (archaic)
* a (A Estierna)

### Etymology

From Latin illa(m).

### Article

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

#### Usage notes

* The article la contracts to l' before a word beginning with a or ha: l'asturiana (the Asturian), l'habitación (the habitation), because it ends with an A already

### Pronoun

la
* her (third-person singular feminine direct pronoun)

## Baltic Romani
### Pronoun

la
* (Litovska) accusative/independent oblique of joj
** 2005, Anton Tenser, Lithuanian Romani, Lincom Europa, →ISBN, →OCLC, 4.5.1 Complementizers, page 52:me podykhtjom so la nane khereI saw that she is not home

#### Declension

* ↑ The ablative is in decline in Lithuanian Romani

## Bambara
### Alternative forms

* na

### Postposition

la
* postposition marking location

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan la, from Latin illa (demonstrative) via apheresis.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [lə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [la]

#### Article

la f (masculine el, masculine plural els, feminine plural les)
* the; feminine singular definite article

##### Usage notes

* The article la is contracted to l' before a vowel or h, except before a following unstressed I or U sounds, as in la universitat, la idea, and la oliva. Note: Unstressed O sounds like a U.

#### Pronoun

la (enclitic and proclitic, contracted proclitic l')
* her (direct object)

##### Usage notes

* -la is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs.
    Mira-la. ― Look at her.

##### Declension

$^1$ Behaves grammatically as plural.   $^2$ Behaves grammatically as third person. $^3$ Only as object of a preposition.   $^4$ Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈla]

#### Noun

la m (plural las)
* (music) la (sixth note of a diatonic scale)

### Further reading

* “la” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “la”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “la” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “la” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Chickasaw
### Pronoun

la
* I (first-person singular pronoun)

## Corsican
### Etymology

From Latin illa, feminine form of ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle. Cognates include Italian la and French la.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈla/
* Homophone: là

### Article

la
* Archaic form of a.

### Pronoun

la
* Archaic form of a.

#### References

* https://infcor.adecec.net/

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin illa(m).

### Article

la
* the; feminine singular definite article

#### Related terms

* el
* i
* le

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: la
* Rhymes: -aː

### Etymology 1

From earlier lade through regular syncope of intervocalic -d- (compare weer, blij, broer), from Middle Dutch lāde, from Old Dutch *latha, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþō.

#### Noun

la f (plural laden or la's, diminutive laatje n)
* drawer

##### Alternative forms

* lade

##### Derived terms

* bestekla
* bureaula
* schuifla

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: laai
* → Caribbean Hindustani: láh
* → Caribbean Javanese: latye (from the diminutive form)
* → Papiamentu: lachi, laadsje (from lade)

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

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

### Anagrams

* al

## Emilian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/
* Hyphenation: la

### Article

la f sg (plural al or el or li)
* the

#### Inflection
### Pronoun

la (personal)
* (nominative case) she
* (accusative case) her

#### Alternative forms

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

#### Related terms

| Number | Person | Gender | Disjunctive (tonic) | Nominative (subject) | Accusative (direct complement) | Dative (indirect complement) | Reflexive (-self) | Comitative (with) |
| Singular | First | — | mè | a | me | me | me | mêg |
| Singular | Second | — | tè | et | te | te | te | têg |
| Singular | Third | Masculine | ló | al | al | ge | se | sêg |
| Singular | Third | Feminine | lê | la | la | | ge | se | sêg |
| Plural | First | Masculine | nuēter | a | se | se | se | nōsk |
| Plural | First | Feminine | nuētri | a | se | se | se | nōsk |
| Plural | Second | Masculine | vuēter | a | ve | ve | ve | vōsk |
| Plural | Second | Feminine | vuētri | a | ve | ve | ve | vōsk |
| Plural | Third | Masculine | lôr | i | i | ge | se | sêg |
| Plural | Third | Feminine | lôr | el | li | ge | se | sêg |

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from French la, Italian la, Spanish la, all ultimately from Medieval Latin ille.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [la]
* Hyphenation: la

### Article

la
* the
    la libro — the book
    la libroj — the books
    la angla lingvo — the English language
    la angla — (the) English (language) (clipped form)

#### Alternative forms

* l' (poetic)

## Finnish
### Noun

la
* Abbreviation of lauantai (“Saturday”).

## Franco-Provençal
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin illam.

### Determiner

la f (prevocalic l')
* feminine singular of lo (“the”)

### Pronoun

la f (prevocalic l') (ORB, broad)
* her (third-person singular feminine accusative)

#### See also

| singular | nominative | accusative | dative | tonic$^1$ | possessive$^2$ |
| 1st person | jo | mè | mè | mè | min |
| 2nd person | te | tè | tè | tè | tin |
| 3rd person masculine | il | lo / le | lui | lui | sin |
| 3rd person feminine | el | la | lyé | lyé | | sin |
| 3rd person neuter | o | o | y | — | sin |
| 3rd person reflexive | — | sè | sè | sè | | | sin |
| plural | nominative | accusative | dative | tonic$^1$ | possessive$^2$ |
| 1st person | nos | nos | nos | nos | noutro |
| 2nd person | vos | vos | vos | vos | voutro |
| 3rd person masculine | ils | los / les | lor | lor | lor |
| 3rd person feminine | els | les | lor / lyés | lor / lyés | | lor |
| 3rd person reflexive | — | sè | sè | sè | | | lor |
| $^1$ Disjunctive or object of a preposition. | $^1$ Disjunctive or object of a preposition. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. |

### References

* la [2] in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* la in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: là, las

### Etymology 1

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

#### Article

la f sg
* feminine of le: the

##### Usage notes

* la becomes l’ before a vowel or an unaspirated h.
    l’amitié ― the friendship
    l’île ― the island
    l’oasis ― the oasis

##### Derived terms

* à la

##### Descendants

* → Norwegian Bokmål: la

#### Pronoun

la f sg
* her, it (direct object)
    Où est Judith ? Je ne la vois pas.Where is Judith? I don't see her.
    Prends cette boîte et mets-la dans le coin.Take that box and put it in the corner.

##### Related terms

$^1$ On can also function as a first person plural (although agreeing with third person singular verb forms). $^2$ Vous is also used as the polite singular form. $^3$ Ils and eux are also used when a group has a mixture of masculine and feminine members. $^4$ These forms are also used as third person plural reflexive.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

la m (plural la)
* (music) la, the note 'A'

##### Derived terms

* donner le la

#### Descendants

* → Persian: لا (lâ)

#### See also

* là

### References

* ↑ Dauzat, Albert with Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964) “le, la, les”, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse

### Further reading

* “la”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin illa(m).

### Article

la f sg (plural lis)
* the

#### Inflection
### See also

* lis, il

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [la]

### Etymology 1
#### Pronoun

la f (accusative)
* Alternative form of a (“her”)

##### Usage notes

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

##### Related terms

* a
* lo
* na

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [la]

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

la m (plural las)
* (music) la (sixth note of the scale)
* (music) A (the musical note or key)

##### See also

* dó
* fa
* la
* mi
* re
* si
* sol

### Etymology 3

From Old Galician-Portuguese lãa, from Latin lāna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [laː]

#### Alternative forms

* laa

#### Noun

la f (uncountable)
* wool

## Guinea-Bissau Creole
### Etymology

From Portuguese lá. Cognate with Kabuverdianu la.

### Adverb

la
* there

## Haitian Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/

### Etymology 1

From French l’art.

#### Noun

la
* art

### Etymology 2
#### Article

la
* the (definite article)

##### Usage notes

This article is used 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.

##### See also

* a
* an
* lan
* nan
* yo
* yon

### Etymology 3

From French là (“there”).

#### Adverb

la
* there

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɒ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -lɒ

### Interjection

la
* (archaic) used in dialects at the end of an exclamatory sentence as an emphasis
    ott van la! ― there it is!
* a syllable used when singing a tune without lyrics

### Further reading

* (for emphasis): la in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (syllable used when singing): la in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (alternative form of lá, used in solfège): la in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (used in à la, cf. à): la in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Ido
### Alternative forms

* (apocopic form) l'

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Article

la (plural le)
* the

##### Derived terms

| Prep. + article | Combined form |
| ad + la | al |
| de + la | del |
| di + la | dil |
| da + la | dal |

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

la (plural le la or lai)
* (music) la

## Interlingua
### Pronoun

la
* (accusative) her
* (dative) to her

## Istriot
### Etymology

From Latin illa(m), feminine of ille.

### Article

la f sg (masculine el)
* 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.

## Italian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: $^°$/la/$^°$, /la/$^°$
** Hyphenation: la
* IPA: (many dialects) /a/$^°$

#### Article

la f sg (plural le)
* the

##### Usage notes

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

##### Inflection
#### Pronoun

la f sg (plural le, masculine lo)
* (accusative) her, it
    La vedo. ― I see her.
** a. 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini:
    […] una improvvisa timidezza però la immobilizza […] […] a sudden timidity immobilized her though […]
* (accusative, formal) you (term of respect)
    La vedo. ― I see you.
    Scusi se la disturbo. ― Sorry to bother you.

##### Alternative forms

* -la (enclitic)

##### See also

| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Combined | Disjunctive | Locative | Partitive |
| Singular | first | — | io | mi, m', -mi | mi, m', -mi | mi, m', -mi | me | me | — | — |
| Singular | second | — | tu | ti, t', -ti | ti, t', -ti | ti, t', -ti | te | te | — | — |
| Singular | third | m | lui | si$^2$, s', -si | lo, l', -lo | gli, -gli | glie, se$^2$ | lui, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) | ne, n' |
| Singular | third | f | lei, Lei$^1$ | si$^2$, s', -si | la, La$^1$, l', L'$^1$, -la, -La$^1$ | le$^3$, Le$^1$, -le$^3$, -Le$^1$ | glie, se$^2$ | lei, Lei$^1$, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) | ne, n' |
| Plural | first | — | noi | ci, c', -ci | ci, c', -ci | ci, c', -ci | ce | noi | — | — |
| Plural | second | — | voi, Voi$^4$ | vi, Vi$^4$, v', V'$^4$, -vi, -Vi$^4$ | vi, Vi$^4$, v', V'$^4$, -vi, -Vi$^4$ | vi, Vi$^4$, v', V'$^4$, -vi, -Vi$^4$ | ve | voi, Voi$^4$ | — | — |
| Plural | third | m | loro, Loro$^1$ | si, s', -si | li, Li$^1$, -li, -Li$^1$ | gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro$^1$ | glie, se | loro, Loro$^1$, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) | ne, n' |
| Plural | third | f | loro, Loro$^1$ | si, s', -si | le, Le$^1$, -le, -Le$^1$ | gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro$^1$ | glie, se | loro, Loro$^1$, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) | ne, n' |
| $^1$ | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. |
| $^2$ | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. |
| $^3$ | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. |
| $^4$ | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). |

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈla/$^°$, /ˈla/$^*$
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: là

#### Noun

la m (invariable)
* (music) la (musical note)
* (music) A (musical note and scale)

##### Derived terms

* la maggiore
* la minore

### References

* ↑ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 127

### Further reading

* La (nota) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{it}$
* la in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* al

## Japanese
### Romanization

la
* Rōmaji transcription of ら゚
* Rōmaji transcription of ラ゚

## Jingpho
### Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese လ (la.).

### Noun

la
* month

### References

* Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎, volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese lá.

### Adverb

la
* there

## Kambera
### Preposition

la
* in
    Ni-nja la wawa-mu.They are below you.(literally, “They are in below you”)

### References

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

## Kilivila
### Verb

-la-
* to leave, to go
    kula - thou goest
    kulosi - ye go
    bala - I will go

#### See also

* -wa-

### References

* ↑ Gunter Senft (1986), Kilivila: the Language of the Trobriand Islanders. Berlin • New York • Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 303. →ISBN

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Latin illa(m).

### Article

la f (singular)
* the

#### Usage notes

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

### See also

* l
* l'
* i
* les

## Ladino
### Article

la (Hebrew spelling לה, plural las, masculine el)
* the (feminine singular)

## Leonese
### Etymology

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

### Article

la f sg (masculine el, neuter lu, masculine plural los, feminine plural les)
* the (definite article)

#### Usage notes

* The prepositions cun, en and pur contract with la, unless la is part of a proper noun.
    ‎cun + ‎la → ‎cula
    ‎en + ‎la → ‎na
    ‎pur + ‎la → ‎pula
* The article la becomes l' before a word beginning with a a or ha:
    l'aviespa ― the wasp

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/
* Rhymes: -a

### Etymology 1

Pronunciation spelling of lah.

#### Particle

la
* (nonstandard) Alternative form of lah.

### Etymology 2

Clipping of la ni, itself a clipping of kala ini, making la a clipping of kala.

#### Adverb

la (Jawi spelling لا)
* (dialectal, Kedah, Kelantan-Pattani, Terengganu) At the present time or moment; now.
    Synonyms: sekarang, la ni, ini

### Further reading

* “la” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laː/
* Usually unstressed and then automatically shortened to /la/.

### Etymology 1

From Arabic لَا (lā). Doublet of le (“no”).

#### Adverb

la
* Used—optionally—with a negated second-person imperfect verb to express the negated imperative.
    La tisraqx!Don't steal!.
* Used to express negative intention.

#### Conjunction

la
* neither, nor
    La jiekol u la jixrob. ― He doesn't eat nor drink.
* (obsolete) except
    Synonym: ħlief

#### Derived terms

* bla
* inkella
* lanqas

### Etymology 2

Probably from Arabic لَمَّا (lammā).

#### Conjunction

la
* when
* since

##### Derived terms

* la Maltija
* ladarba

## Mandarin
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Romanization

la (la$^5$ / la$^0$, Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄚ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 啦
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚹
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鞡
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𤷟
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𩋷
la
* Nonstandard spelling of lā.
* Nonstandard spelling of lá.
* Nonstandard spelling of lǎ.
* Nonstandard spelling of là.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Matal
### Preposition

la
* 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)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)
* from
    Ama ləv aŋatà kà kərkər la gi (Mata 15:8)But their heart is far away from me. (Matthew 15:8)

### References

* ↑ http://listen.bible.is/MFHWYI/Matt/16#17
* ↑ http://listen.bible.is/MFHWYI/Matt/15#8

## Michif
### Etymology

From French la.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [la]

### Article

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

## Middle French
### Etymology 1

From Old French la, from Latin illam.

#### Article

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

##### Descendants

* French: la
** → Norwegian Bokmål: la

### Etymology 2

From Old French la.

#### Alternative forms

* là (circa 1550)

#### Adverb

la
* there

##### Descendants

* French: là

## Mirandese
### Etymology

From Latin illa(m).

### Article

la f (plural las, masculine l, masculine plural ls)
* the
    la lhéngua mirandesathe Mirandese language

## Mwan
### Noun

la
* rain

## Neapolitan
### Pronoun

la
* Alternative form of 'a

## Norman
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Jersey):(file)

### Article

la f (plural les)
* (Jersey) the (feminine singular definite article)
    la beque ― the spade
    la crôte ― the crust
    la léçon ― the lesson
    la tâsse ― the cup

#### Coordinate terms

* (gender) lé

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From the verb late.

#### Verb

la (imperative la, present tense lar, simple past lot, past participle latt)
* to let
    La sovende hunder ligge. ― Let sleeping dogs lie.
* to leave (in a given state)
    la dem (være) i fred ― leave them alone

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse hlaða.

#### Verb

la (imperative la, present tense lar, simple past ladde, past participle ladd)
* alternative form of lade

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

la
* simple past of legge

### Etymology 4

From French la (“the”), from Middle French la (“the”), from Old French la (“the”), from Latin illam (“that, those”), which is the accusative singular feminine of ille (“that, those”), from Old Latin olle (“he, that”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ol-no- or *h₂l̥-no-, from *h₂el- (“beyond, other”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: la

#### Article

la
* (Used in certain expressions of French origin) the
    à la, à la carte, à la grecque, à la mode, à la maison, à la suite

### References

* “la” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɑː/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse láta, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną. Akin to English let.

#### Alternative forms

* lata, late (long forms)

#### Verb

la (present tense lar or lèt, past tense lét, supine latt or late, past participle latt or laten, present participle latande, imperative la)
* let, allow
    La meg få gjera det.Let me do it.

##### Derived terms

* la vera
* la bli
* la seg gjera

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse hlaða, a strong verb from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.

#### Alternative forms

* lada, lade (long forms)

#### Verb

la (present tense lar, past tense ladde, supine ladd or ladt, past participle ladd, present participle ladande, imperative la)
* (ambitransitive) to load, charge
    Synonym: laste

##### Derived terms

* lading f
* ladekabel m

##### Related terms

* løe f
* lass n
* lade m

### Etymology 3

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. Through Italian.

#### Noun

la m (definite singular la-en, indefinite plural la-ar, definite plural la-ane)
* (music) la, a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.

##### Coordinate terms

* (scale of solfège): do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

la
* past of leggja and legga

### References

* “la” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* al

## Occitan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Article

la (masculine lo, feminine plural las, masculine plural los)
* the; feminine singular definite article

## Old English
### Etymology

Unknown. Probably onomatopoeic. Compare Polish ła. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɑː/

### Interjection

lā
* lo!, oh!, ah!
    Lā! næddrena cyn.Oh! generation of vipers.
* Enclitic particle used to emphasise interrogation, exclamation, entreaty, affirmation, negation]]
    Ðā cwæþ ic hwæt is ðæt lā?then said I 'what then is that?'

#### Derived terms

* ēalā

##### Descendants

* English: lo

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin illa(m).

### Article

la
* the (feminine singular oblique definite article)
* the (feminine singular nominative definite article)
** c. 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)

#### Inflection

$^1$ These singular forms elide to l' before a vowel or non-aspirate h.

### Pronoun

la
* it (feminine singular object pronoun)

#### Descendants

* Middle French: la
** French: la
*** → Norwegian Bokmål: la

## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* le

### Etymology

From a form of Proto-Celtic *letos (“side”), from which leth, which could be related to *ɸletos (“side”). However, compare Latin latus. The sense “in the language of” is a semantic loan from Latin apud and is perhaps encountered only in glosses of the Latin construction.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/

### Preposition

la (with the accusative)
* with
* belonging to
* among
* in the language of
* in the opinion of
* by (indicating the agent of a passive verb)
For quotations using this term, see Citations:la.

#### Derived terms

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”)
* lïa (“with his/her/its/their”)
* lïar (“with our”)
Combinations with a relative pronoun:
* lassa (“with which”)

#### Descendants

* Irish: le
* Manx: lesh
* Scottish Gaelic: le

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “la”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 272–73, 523; reprinted 2017

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin illa(m).

### Article

la (masculine lo)
* the; feminine singular definite article

#### Descendants

* Occitan: la

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* (Greater Poland):
** (Western Greater Poland) IPA: /ˈla/
** (Central Greater Poland) IPA: /ˈla/

### Preposition

la
* (Central Greater Poland, Western Greater Poland) Alternative form of dla

### Further reading

* Oskar Kolberg (1877) “la”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 19
* Oskar Kolberg (1877) “la”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 27

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /la/
* (Portugal) IPA: /lɐ/

### Pronoun

la
* 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

## Romagnol
### Article

la
* feminine of e’ (“the”)

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* ла (la) (Transnistria (Moldova))

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/
* Rhymes: -a

### Etymology 1

From Latin illac.

#### Preposition

la (+accusative)
* at, in
    Suntem la Paris.We're in Paris.
* to, towards

### Etymology 2

From Latin lavāre, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”).

#### Alternative forms

* (Transylvania) lăia

#### Verb

a la (third-person singular present lă, past participle lăut) 1st conjugation
* (uncommon) to wash (especially the head)
    Synonyms: se spăla, scălda, îmbăia

##### Derived terms

* lăutoare, lăutură

##### Related terms

* lături
* lăun
* spăla

## Samoan
### Noun

la
* sun

## Santa Catarina Albarradas Zapotec
### Noun

la
* name

### References

* Basic Vocabulary, page 63

## Sassarese
### Alternative forms

* -lla (pronoun, enclitic, used when previous syllable is stressed)
* -ra (pronoun, enclitic, used when previous syllable is unstressed)

### Etymology

From Latin illa, feminine of ille (“that”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/, (after a word ending in a vowel) /ra/

### Article

la f sg (plural li, masculine lu)
* the (feminine singular)

#### Usage notes

* Becomes l' before a vowel.

#### Inflection
### Pronoun

la f (plural li, masculine lu)
* (followed by chi) that
* her (accusative)
* it (accusative)

### References

* Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

## Sicilian
### Etymology 1

From the apheresis of Vulgar Latin *illa, from Latin illam, from illa.

#### Alternative forms

* a

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/

#### Article

la f sg (m lu, plural li)
* (feminine singular definite article) the
    Synonym: a

##### Usage notes

* This article is nowadays an obsolete variant, unlike its illiquid counterpart a. It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
* Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
* Its use is however almost undisputed before nouns (or nominalized forms of other parts of speech, most often adjectives) that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic l'. Otherwise, illiquid definite articles are phonetically absorbed by the following noun. I.e: l'arancina (liquid) and ârancina (illiquid).

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2

From the apheresis of Vulgar Latin *illa, from Latin illam, from illa.

#### Alternative forms

* -la (enclitic)
* a (illiquid form)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/

#### Pronoun

la f sg (plural li, masculine lu)
* (accusative) her
    Synonym: a
    La canusci? ― Do you know her?
* (accusative) it, this or that thing
    Synonym: a
    Quannu ti la desi. ― When I gave it to you.

##### Usage notes

* This pronoun is now an obsolete variant. It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
* Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
* Its use is however almost undisputed before words that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic l'.

## Southern Ndebele
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronoun

la
* these; class 6 proximal demonstrative.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/ [la]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: la

### Etymology 1

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

#### Article

la f sg (plural las, masculine el, masculine plural los)
* feminine singular definite article; the

#### Pronoun

la
* accusative of ella, ello (when the antecedent's implied gender is feminine), and usted (when referring to a woman); her, it, you (formal)
* impersonal neuter pronoun (accusative) in certain colloquial phrases: it, this
    La sabe toda.He/she knows everything (it all)
    ¿¡Dónde la viste!?Where did you see that!?
    No te la creo.I don't believe you. (from, "I don't believe you [when it comes to] this.")

##### Usage notes

* 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”). This is especially true with body parts and with articles of clothing or similar accessories.
* Where a feminine noun begins with stressed (h)a-, though not common, el is used instead: el alma, el águila, el hacha. (The article remains la where an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun: la majestuosa águila.) The plural remains las.

#### Derived terms

* a la
* a la de
* lo
* saberla
* pasarla
* jugársela
* buscársela
* verla
| | | | | nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive |
| first person | singular | singular | singular | yo | me | me | mí$^1$ |
| first person | plural | masculine$^2$ | masculine$^2$ | nosotros | nos | nos | nosotros |
| first person | plural | feminine | feminine | nosotras | nos | nos | nosotras |
| second person | singular | tuteo | tuteo | tú | te | te | ti$^1$ |
| second person | singular | voseo | voseo | vos | te | te | vos |
| second person | singular | formal$^3$ | formal$^3$ | usted | le, se$^4$ | lo/la$^5$ | usted |
| second person | plural | familiar$^6$ | masculine$^2$ | vosotros | os | os | vosotros |
| second person | plural | familiar$^6$ | feminine | vosotras | os | os | vosotras |
| second person | plural | formal/general$^3$ | formal/general$^3$ | ustedes | les, se$^4$ | los/las$^5$ | ustedes |
| third person | singular | masculine$^2$ | masculine$^2$ | él | le, se$^4$ | lo | él |
| third person | singular | feminine | feminine | ella | le, se$^4$ | la | ella |
| third person | singular | neuter | neuter | ello$^7$ | le, se$^4$ | lo | ello |
| third person | plural | masculine$^2$ | masculine$^2$ | ellos | les, se$^4$ | los | ellos |
| third person | plural | feminine | feminine | ellas | les, se$^4$ | las | ellas |
| third person | reflexive | reflexive | reflexive | — | se | se | sí$^1$ |
* Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
* Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
* Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
* If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., Se lo dije instead of Le lo dije)
* Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
* Used primarily in Spain
* Used only in rare circumstances

#### Descendants

* → Translingual: La

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

la m (plural las)
* (music) la (sixth note of the scale)
* (music) A (the musical note or key)

##### See also

* do
* fa
* la
* mi
* re
* si
* sol

### Further reading

* “la”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* al

## Sumerian
### Romanization

la
* Romanization of 𒆷 (la)

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

Other scripts :
| Ajami | ـلَ |
From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ́a.

#### Verb

-la (infinitive kula)
* to eat
* (by extension) to consume, to eradicate

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -la :
| Positive present | -nakula |
| Subjunctive | -le |
| Negative | -li |
| Imperative singular | kula |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kula |
| Negative | kutokula |
Imperatives :
| Singular | kula |
| Plural | kuleni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hula |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -likula |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kula |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -takula |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -takula |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sile |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngekula |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singekula |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalikula |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalikula |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mekula |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshakula |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jala |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kila |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipokula |
| Consecutive | kala / positive subject concord + -kala |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kale |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

##### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Applicative: -lia
** Causative: -lisha (“to feed”)
** Passive: -liwa
** Stative: -lika (“be edible”)
** Other formations: -la chumvi nyingi (“to live a long life (idiomatic)”), -la fedha, -la hasara, -la njama, -la rushwa, -la yamini
* Nominal derivations:
** chakula (“food”)
** mla (“eater”)
** ulaji (“eating”)

### Etymology 2

From Arabic لَا (lā).

#### Interjection

la
* no

#### See also

* siyo
* hapana

### Etymology 3

See -a.

#### Particle

la
* ji class$_{(V)}$ inflected form of -a

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Alternative forms

* lade

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɑː/
* Rhymes: -ɑː

#### Verb

la
* past indicative of lägga

### Etymology 2

Clipping of earlier fälle and fuller. Listed in a dictionary from the 1800s, and believed to have existed for longer.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/

#### Adverb

la (not comparable)
* (dialectal, Gothenburg, Västergötland) Synonym of väl

### References

* 1 2 “La”, in isof.se‎ (in Swedish), Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore, 2011 June, archived from the original on 28 September 2020

### Anagrams

* -al, al

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /la/ [lɐ]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: la

### Etymology 1
#### Interjection

la (Baybayin spelling ᜎ)
* used in directing an animal to stop, especially carabaos and cattle

##### See also

* ho
* han

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish la, from Latin labii.

#### Noun

la (Baybayin spelling ᜎ)
* la (the note 'A')

### Etymology 3

Influenced by Baybayin character ᜎ (la).

#### Noun

la (Baybayin spelling ᜎ)
* the name of the Latin-script letter L/l, in the Abakada alphabet
    Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) el, (in the Abecedario) ele

##### See also

* lala

### Further reading

* “la”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

## Tetum
### Adverb

la
* not

## Tsafiki
### Pronoun

la
* I; the first-person singular masculine pronoun; the first-person singular pronoun used by adult men

#### Coordinate terms

* čiʰké (first-person singular feminine pronoun, first-person singular pronoun used by adult women)
* če (first-person singular pronoun used by children)
* čiʰke-lá (first-person plural pronoun)

### References

* The Languages of the Andes (2004, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Pieter C. Muysken)

## Turkish
### Alternative forms

* lan

### Interjection

la
* (dialectal) ulan

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [laː˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [laː˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [laː˧˧]

### Etymology 1

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Opper (2017)'s Phonological Contrast in Bai cited Jiànchuān Bai la˦/⁴⁴ "to yell, to curse" from Xú & Zhào (1984).”

#### Verb

la • (羅, 囉)
* to cry, to shout
* (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) to reprimand, to scold
    bị vợ la ― to be scolded by wife

##### Derived terms

* kêu la
* la hét
* la làng
* la lối
* la mắng
* la ó
* la rầy

### Etymology 2

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 騾 (“mule”, SV: loa).

#### Noun

(classifier con) la • (騾)
* a horse–donkey hybrid; a mule or a hinny

#### See also

* lừa

## Votic
### Alternative forms

* laa

### Etymology

From laskõa. Compare Estonian las.

### Pronunciation

* (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA: /ˈlɑ/, [ˈɫɑ]
* Rhymes: -ɑ
* Hyphenation: la

### Particle

la
* let (with a verb); forms a first-person or third-person imperative.

#### Usage notes

* Usually used with the indicative present personal forms of verbs. The verb may also be inflected in the negative to create a negative imperative.
* The person who is allowed to do something may be placed between la and the verb.
* The third-person imperatives using la (e.g. la teeb) are more common than the forms using -ko(d) (tehko).
* Forming second-person imperatives with la is theoretically possible, but practically never done; the inflected imperative forms are used instead.

### References

* Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “la”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

## Walloon
### Etymology

From Latin illac.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la/

### Adverb

la
* there

#### Synonyms

* låvå

#### Antonyms

* chal, droci

## Wolof
### Pronoun

la
* you (second-person singular object pronoun)

#### See also

| | singular subject | plural subject | singular object | plural object |
| 1st person | man | nun | ma | nu |
| 2nd person | yow | yeen | la | leen |
| 3rd person | moom | ñoom | ko | leen |

## Xhosa
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronoun

la
* these; class 6 proximal demonstrative.

## Xokleng
### Etymology

From Proto-Southern Jê *ra (“sun”).

### Pronunciation

IPA: [ˈla]

### Noun

la
* sun

## Yatzachi Zapotec
### Noun

la
* name

## Yoruba
### Etymology 1

Proposed to have derived from Proto-Yoruboid *lá. Possibly cognate with Proto-Bantu *-dáada

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lá/

#### Verb

lá
* to dream

##### Derived terms

* lá àlá (“to dream a dream”)
* àlá (“dream”)

### Etymology 2

Proposed to have derived from Proto-Yoruboid *lá

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lá/

#### Verb

lá
* to lick, including with one's finger
    Synonym: pọ́n lá
* to become worn out

##### Derived terms

* ilá (“okra”)
* ìka ìlábẹ̀ (“index finger”)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /là/

#### Verb

là
* to be wealthy; to become wealthy, to become rich

##### Derived terms

* kò-là-kò-ṣagbe (“middle class”)
* ọlọ́là (“rich person”)
* ọlà (“wealth, riches”)

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /là/

#### Verb

là
* to dilute a liquid
    Synonym: fi omi lú

##### Derived terms

* ìlà (“dilution”)

### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /là/

#### Verb

là
* to shine like the moon/sun/light, to glow, to radiate
    òòrùn-ún là ― The sun shone

### Etymology 6
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /là/

#### Verb

là
* to survive

##### Derived terms

* gbà là (“to save”)
* ìgbàlà (“salvation”)

### Etymology 7
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /là/

#### Verb

là
* to cut, to divide, to separate, to slice

##### Derived terms

* Ẹ̀là (“A spirit and energy force in the Yoruba religion and divination”)
* làwàà (“to open suddenly”)
* ìlà (“line, partition, mark”)

## Zulu
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlá/

### Pronoun

la
* these; class 6 proximal demonstrative.

#### Inflection
### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “la”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “la (2)”