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labba

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See also: lábba and lábbá

English

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Noun

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labba (plural labbas)

  1. (Guyana) A paca (large rodent).
    • 1888, H. I. Perkins, “Seven months up the Puruni River”, in Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana:
      During the last three months, of my stay, labba meat (Cœlogenys paca), which is justly looked upon as the caviare of the bush, was fairly plentiful. This was due to a small black and white dog, belonging to one of the boat hands, which hunted labba excellently; sometimes killing four or five in a morning, and once even six.
    • 1995, Brian L. Moore, Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism: Colonial Guyana, 1838-1900, McGill-Queen's Press:
      Game included accouries (a kind of guinea pig), water-dogs (otters), labbas (hollow cheek pacas), deer, wild hogs, mypouris (tapirs), monkeys, sloths, water haas (capybaras), armadillos, snakes, tigers, jaguars, iguanas, manatees (sea cows), etc.
    • 2011, Helena Martin, Walk Wit’ Me...: All Ova Guyana, BalboaPress, page 54:
      Labba was my favourite meat. I say “was”, because that came to an end on one of my visits to Guyana.

Icelandic

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Etymology

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Likely derived from a noun, compare Norwegian labb (itself related to löpp (foot)). Appears in the 17th century.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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labba (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative labbaði, supine labbað)

  1. to walk slowly, to amble, to stroll
    Synonyms: rölta, slangra, ráfa

Conjugation

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Somali

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Numeral

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labba

  1. two

Swedish

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Etymology

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Clipping of laborera.

Verb

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labba (present labbar, preterite labbade, supine labbat, imperative labba)

  1. (colloquial) Short for laborera.

Conjugation

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Conjugation of labba (weak)
active passive
infinitive labba labbas
supine labbat labbats
imperative labba
imper. plural1 labben
present past present past
indicative labbar labbade labbas labbades
ind. plural1 labba labbade labbas labbades
subjunctive2 labbe labbade labbes labbades
present participle labbande
past participle

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

References

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