# lab
## English
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

Clipping of laboratory.

#### 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.
** 2023 August 2, Ben Tinker, Meg Tirrell and Brenda Goodman, “New director named at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases after Fauci’s retirement”, in CNN‎:The NIAID supports projects at universities and research organizations around the United States as well as a network of 21 NIAID labs across the country.
* (colloquial) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.
    I dropped my mixture while doing my lab, so I had to start over.

##### Derived terms

* clan lab
* computer lab
* drug lab
* dry lab, dry-lab
* fab lab
* hot lab
* lab assistant
* lab coat
* lab dip
* lab lit
* lab mouse
* lab on a chip
* lab rat
* lab tech
* lab work
* language lab
* meth lab
* science lab
* wet lab

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Clipping of Labrador retriever.

#### Noun

lab (plural labs)
* (colloquial) A Labrador retriever.

##### Derived terms

* choco lab

##### Translations
### 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.
* 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.

### Noun

lab m (labe, f.)
* southern Albanian (male)
    (male person from Labëri (“land of lab”), Labëria (“the land of lab”))

#### Related terms

* Labëri
* Labëria
* labërisht
* Labërishtja
* arbër

### 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
### Verb

lab
* imperative of labbe

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* labo

### Etymology

Clipping of laboratorium.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

lab n (plural labs, diminutive labje n)
* (Netherlands) lab

#### Derived terms

* labvlees

## Lhao Vo
### Etymology

Cognate with 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: /ˈlab/ [ˈlaβ̞]
* Rhymes: -ab
* Syllabification: lab

### Noun

lab m (plural labs)
* lab (laboratory)

## Zhuang
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /laːp˧/
* Tone numbers: lab$^8$
* 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