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4-letter words (6 found)

AVEL,LAVE,LEVA,VALE,VEAL,VELA,

3-letter words (6 found)

ALE,AVE,LAV,LEA,LEV,VAE,

2-letter words (5 found)

AE,AL,EA,EL,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from leva according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of leva

leva

English

Noun

leva

  1. plural of lev

Noun

leva (plural levas)

  1. 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.

Anagrams

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

Albanian

Verb

leva

  1. first-person singular aorist of lyej

French

Pronunciation

Verb

leva

  1. third-person singular past historic of lever

Anagrams

  • lave, lavé

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛba/ [ˈlɛ.β̞ɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛba
  • Hyphenation: le‧va

Verb

leva

  1. inflection of levar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “levar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Ingrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian лев (lev).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

leva

  1. lion

Declension

Derived terms

References

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

Interlingua

Verb

leva

  1. present of levar
  2. imperative of levar

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.va/
  • Rhymes: -ɛva
  • Hyphenation: lè‧va

Etymology 1

Noun

leva f (plural leve)

  1. lever
  2. (military) call-up, conscription, draft, national service
  3. (military, called up soldiers) those called-up, conscripts

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

leva

  1. inflection of levare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • lave, vale, vela

Latin

Verb

levā

  1. 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(key): /²leːʋɑ/

Verb

leva (present tense lever, past tense levde, past participle levt or levd, present participle levande, imperative lev)

  1. to live (be alive)
  2. to subsist (nourish oneself)

References

  • “leva” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Verb

lēva

  1. to leave behind

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Swedish: leva (obsolete)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

leva f (plural levas)

  1. wave (sudden unusually large amount of something)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

leva

  1. inflection of levar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. 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)

  1. lev (currency of Bulgaria)

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

leva

  1. inflection of levi:
    1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
    2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

leva (Cyrillic spelling лева)

  1. third-person singular present of levati

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈleba/ [ˈle.β̞a]
  • Rhymes: -eba
  • Syllabification: le‧va

Etymology 1

Deverbal from levar.

Noun

leva f (plural levas)

  1. (military) draft (of troops)
  2. (mechanical) cog
  3. (mechanical) cam
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

leva

  1. inflection of levar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. 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(key): /²leːva/

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)

  1. to live, to be alive (concretely or figuratively)
    1. to live (lead one's life somewhere, with someone, or the like)
      Synonym: (in a home) bo
    2. to live (in a particular way), to lead
  2. (with på or (more rarely) av) to live on, to live off (something)
    Synonym: (make a living, subsist) livnära
  3. (sports) to be live (be in active play, of a ball)
  4. (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)
    1. (in "leva om," with stress on "om") to party, to indulge in debauchery
Conjugation
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)

  1. (obsolete) to leave
    • 1541, Gustav Vasa Bible, Gospel of Matthew, 22:25
    Synonym: lämna
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • kvarleva

Etymology 3

Noun

leva

  1. 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

Source: wiktionary.org