dav

See also: DAV, Dav, daV, and d.a.v.

Translingual

Symbol

dav

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Taita.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Taita terms

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdaf]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: dav
  • Rhymes: -af

Etymology 1

Noun

dav m inan

  1. crowd (group of people)
    On zmizel v davu.He vanished into the crowd.
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dav

  1. second-person singular imperative of dávit

Verb

dav

  1. masculine singular past transgressive of dát

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

Clipping of goddag (good day).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /davˀ/, [ˈd̥ɑwˀ]

Interjection

dav

  1. (colloquial) hello

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [daʋ]

Noun

dav m inan (relational adjective davový)

  1. crowd, mob

Declension

Declension of dav
(pattern dub)
singularplural
nominativedavdavy
genitivedavudavov
dativedavudavom
accusativedavdavy
locativedavedavoch
instrumentaldavomdavmi

Further reading

  • dav”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

White Hmong

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /da˧˦/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *qlaŋX (hawk, eagle). Cognate with Iu Mien jaangv.

Noun

dav

  1. hawk.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *Kʷi̯aŋX (wide), from Chinese  / 广. Cognate with Iu Mien jangv. Compare Thai กว้าง (gwâang) and Lao ກວ້າງ (kuāng).

Adjective

dav

  1. broad; wide.

Etymology 3

Adjective

dav

  1. lonely; cheerless (of a house).

References

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.