leva

See also: Levä, levä, levae, levá, levà, levâ, Leva, and лева

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.

   • 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

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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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

Ingrian

Kaks levvaa - kullileva (kural) ja imikkoleva (oikial).

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
   • 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.

Declension

Declension of leva (type 3/kana, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	leva	levat
genitive	levan	levvoin
partitive	levvaa	levoja
illative	levvaa	levvoi
inessive	levas	levois
elative	levast	levoist
allative	levalle	levoille
adessive	leval	levoil
ablative	levalt	levoilt
translative	levaks	levoiks
essive	levanna, levvaan	levoinna, levvoin
exessive1)	levant	levoint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Derived terms

• imikkoleva
• kullileva

 

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)

   Han har levd eit langt liv.

   He has lived a long life.

2. 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

1. to leave behind

Conjugation

Conjugation of lēva (weak)

	present			past
infinitive	lēva			—
participle	lēvandi, lēvande			lēvþer
active voice	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
iæk	lēvir	lēvi, lēve	—	lēvþi, lēvþe	lēvþi, lēvþe
þū	lēvir	lēvi, lēve	lēv	lēvþi, lēvþe	lēvþi, lēvþe
han	lēvir	lēvi, lēve	—	lēvþi, lēvþe	lēvþi, lēvþe
vīr	lēvum, lēvom	lēvum, lēvom	lēvum, lēvom	lēvþum, lēvþom	lēvþum, lēvþom
īr	lēvin	lēvin	lēvin	lēvþin	lēvþin
þēr	lēva	lēvin	—	lēvþu, lēvþo	lēvþin
mediopassive voice	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
iæk	lēvis	lēvis, lēves	—	lēvþis, lēvþes	lēvþis, lēvþes
þū	lēvis	lēvis, lēves	—	lēvþis, lēvþes	lēvþis, lēvþes
han	lēvis	lēvis, lēves	—	lēvþis, lēvþes	lēvþis, lēvþes
vīr	lēvums, lēvoms	lēvums, lēvoms	—	lēvþums, lēvþoms	lēvþums, lēvþoms
īr	lēvins	lēvins	—	lēvþins	lēvþins
þēr	lēvas	lēvins	—	lēvþus, lēvþos	lēvþins

Descendants

• Swedish: leva (obsolete)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.vɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.vɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.va/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.vɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.vɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.bɐ/ [ˈlɛ.βɐ]

Etymology 1

Noun

leva f (plural levas)

1. 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

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

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	leva	leva		leve	levele
genitive-dative	leve	levei		leve	levelor
vocative	—			—

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

• ancla de leva
• mar de leva
• pieza de leva

 

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 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Swedish

Alternative forms

• lefva (obsolete spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²leːva/

• Audio:

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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)

   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 lever

   The composer is dead, but the music lives

   Hoppet lever

   Hope is alive

   Minnet lever i oss

   The 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]‎^[1], 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.

   1. to live (lead one's life somewhere, with someone, or the like)

      Synonym: (in a home) bo

      Monstren lever uppe i bergen

      The monsters live up in the mountains

      människorna som lever inom stadens murar

      the people who live within the city walls

      Lärjungarna lever med mästaren

      The disciples live with the master

   2. to live (in a particular way), to lead

      leva ett liv i synd

      live/lead a life of sin

      De levde ett stillsamt liv

      They lived/lead a quiet life

2. (with på or (more rarely) av) to live on, to live off (something)

   Synonym: (make a living, subsist) livnära

   leva på bröd och vatten

   live on bread and water

   leva på avkastning

   live off returns

   leva på hoppet

   live on [the] hope

   I den här lådan ligger allt jag kommer leva av under expeditionen

   In this box is everything I will live on during the expedition

3. (sports) to be live (be in active play, of a ball)

   Bollen lever

   The ball is alive

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)

   Hundarna levde om

   The dogs were being wild and noisy

   1. (in "leva om," with stress on "om") to party, to indulge in debauchery

Conjugation

Conjugation of leva (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	leva		levas
Supine	levt, levat		levts, levats
Imperative	lev		—
Imper. plural1	leven		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	lever	levde	levs, leves	levdes
Ind. plural1	leva	levde	levas	levdes
Subjunctive2	leve	levde	leves	levdes
	Participles
Present participle	levande
Past participle	levd
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)

1. (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

Conjugation of leva (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	leva		levas
Supine	levt		levts
Imperative	lev		—
Imper. plural1	leven		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	lever	levde	levs, leves	levdes
Ind. plural1	leva	levde	levas	levdes
Subjunctive2	leve	levde	leves	levdes
	Participles
Present participle	levande
Past participle	levd
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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