# leva
## English
### Noun

leva
* plural of lev

### Noun

leva (plural levas)
* Alternative form of lev (“Bulgarian currency”)
** 1941, United States. Department of Commerce, Foreign Commerce Weekly (volume 3, page 536)
    […] must be furnished with a supplementary Government revenue tax stamp of 1 leva for each box.
** 2001, Bulgaria: The Dual Challenge of Transition and Accession, page 155:The planned PSO support for 2000 is 40 million levas, and for 2001, 30 million levas.

### Anagrams

* Vale, Veal, Vela, avel, eval, lave, vale, veal, vela

## Albanian
### Verb

leva
* first-person singular aorist of lyej

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

leva
* third-person singular past historic of lever

### Anagrams

* lave, lavé

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛba/ [ˈlɛ.β̞ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɛba
* Hyphenation: le‧va

### Verb

leva
* inflection of levar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Ingrian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian лев (lev).

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈleʋɑ/, [ˈlʲe̞ʋɑ]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈleʋɑ/, [ˈle̞ʋɑ]
* Rhymes: -eʋɑ
* Hyphenation: le‧va

### Noun

leva
* lion
** 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 52:Afrikan ja Läns-Aazian variloil steeppilöil ellää suur vihakas hiisnikka - leva.In the warm steppes of Africa and West-Asia lives a big angry predator - the lion.

#### Derived terms

* imikkoleva
* kullileva

### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 262

## Interlingua
### Verb

leva
* present of levar
* imperative of levar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛ.va/
* Rhymes: -ɛva
* Hyphenation: lè‧va

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

leva f (plural leve)
* lever
* (military) call-up, conscription, draft, national service
* (military, called up soldiers) those called-up, conscripts

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

leva
* inflection of levare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* lave, vale, vela

## Latin
### Verb

levā
* second-person singular present active imperative of levō

### References

* "leva", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* leve

### Etymology

From Old Norse lifa. Akin to English live.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²leːʋɑ/

### Verb

leva (present tense lever, past tense levde, past participle levt or levd, present participle levande, imperative lev)
* to live (be alive)
    Han har levd eit langt liv.He has lived a long life.
* to subsist (nourish oneself)
    Pandaen lever av bambus.The panda subsists on bamboo.

### References

* “leva” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse leifa, from Proto-Germanic *laibijaną.

### Verb

lēva
* to leave behind

#### Descendants

* Swedish: leva (obsolete)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlɛ.vɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlɛ.vɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈlɛ.va/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈlɛ.vɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈlɛ.vɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈlɛ.bɐ/ [ˈlɛ.βɐ]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

leva f (plural levas)
* wave (sudden unusually large amount of something)
    Uma leva de vândalos entrou na loja.A wave of vandals entered the store.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

leva
* inflection of levar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Bulgarian лева (leva), plural of лев (lev, “lion”), from Proto-Slavic *lьvъ (“lion”).

### Noun

leva f (plural leve)
* lev (currency of Bulgaria)

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Adjective

leva
* inflection of levi:
** feminine nominative/vocative singular
** neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

### Verb

leva (Cyrillic spelling лева)
* third-person singular present of levati

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleba/ [ˈle.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -eba
* Syllabification: le‧va

### Etymology 1

Deverbal of levar.

#### Noun

leva f (plural levas)
* (military) draft (of troops)
* (mechanical) cog
* (mechanical) cam

##### Derived terms

* ancla de leva
* árbol de levas
* mar de leva
* pieza de leva

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

leva
* inflection of levar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “leva”, 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

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* lefva (obsolete spelling)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²leːva/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Old Swedish liva, from Old Norse lifa, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”). Cognate with Norwegian leve, Danish leve, Icelandic lifa, Dutch leven, German leben and English live.

#### Verb

leva (present lever, preterite levde, supine levt, imperative lev)
* to live, to be alive (concretely or figuratively)
    Lever den skådisen än? Jag trodde han var död.Is that actor still alive? I thought he was dead.
    Den lever!It's alive!
    Kompositören är död, men musiken leverThe composer is dead, but the music lives
    Hoppet leverHope is alive
    Minnet lever i ossThe memory lives in us
    Man kan inte arbeta hela tiden. Man måste ha tid att leva också.You can't work all the time. You have to have time to live too.
** 1990, Claes Eriksson (lyrics and music), “Gôtt å leva [Gött att leva] [Good to live/be alive]”, in Det ska va gôtt å leva [Det ska vara gött att leva – ô signifies a dialectal vowel sound] [It should be good to live/be alive]‎, performed by Anders Eriksson, Jan Rippe:Livet är gött [colloquial or dialectal form of gott], världen är stor. Här sitter vi, jag och min bror. Fisken i sjön sover nog nu. Den är nog trött. Eller vad tror du? Det ska va' [vara] gött å [att] leva, annars kan det kvitta. Fint å [att] leva, annars kan det kvitta. Lätt å [att] leva, annars kan det kvitta. Spring inte runt och vela, då sabbar du det hela. Spring inte runt och veva. Det ska va' [vara] gött, gött, gött, gött å [att] leva.[The] life is good, the world is big. Here we sit, me and my brother. The fish in the lake is probably sleeping now. It is probably tired. Or what do you think? It should be good to live, otherwise there's no point ("otherwise it may (might as well) not matter" (what happens or the like)). Nice to live, otherwise there's no point. Easy to live, otherwise there's no point. Don't run around and vacillate, then you ruin the whole thing. Don't run around and wave. It should be good, good, good, good to live.
** to live (lead one's life somewhere, with someone, or the like)
    Synonym: (in a home) bo
    Monstren lever uppe i bergenThe monsters live up in the mountains
    människorna som lever inom stadens murarthe people who live within the city walls
    Lärjungarna lever med mästarenThe disciples live with the master
** to live (in a particular way), to lead
    leva ett liv i syndlive/lead a life of sin
    De levde ett stillsamt livThey lived/lead a quiet life
* (with på or (more rarely) av) to live on, to live off (something)
    Synonym: (make a living, subsist) livnära
    leva på bröd och vattenlive on bread and water
    leva på avkastninglive off returns
    leva på hoppetlive on [the] hope
    I den här lådan ligger allt jag kommer leva av under expeditionenIn this box is everything I will live on during the expedition
* (sports) to be live (be in active play, of a ball)
    Bollen leverThe ball is alive
* (often as "leva om," with stress on "om") to be wild (and noisy) (of a person or animal the like, or other things by extension)
    Hundarna levde omThe dogs were being wild and noisy
** (in "leva om," with stress on "om") to party, to indulge in debauchery

##### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

##### Derived terms

* livs levande
* länge leve

##### Related terms

* liv

### Etymology 2

From Old Swedish lēva, from Old Norse leifa, from Proto-Germanic *laibijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”). Cognate with Icelandic leifa, English leave.

#### Verb

leva (present lever, preterite levde, supine levt, imperative lev)
* (obsolete) to leave
** 1541, Gustav Vasa Bible, Gospel of Matthew, 22:25
    När oss woro siw brödher / Then förste toogh sigh hustru och bleff dödh. Och effter han hadhe ingen sädh / leeffde han sina hustru sinom brodher.(pre-1906 spelling) När oss voro sju bröder; den förste tog sig hustru, och blef död; och efter han hade ingen säd, lefde han sina hustru sinom broder.Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
    Synonym: lämna

##### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

##### Derived terms

* kvarleva

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

leva
* indefinite plural of lev (“lev (currency of Bulgaria)”)

### References

* leva in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* leva in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* leva in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* elva, lave, vale, vela