labda

labda (plural labdas)

1. Archaic form of lambda.

• Badal, abdal, badla

Borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian lopta, Slovak lopta.^[1] First attested in c. 1405.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɒbdɒ]

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• Hyphenation: lab‧da
• Rhymes: -dɒ

labda (plural labdák)

1. ball (object, generally spherical, used for playing games)

• → Pannonian Rusyn: лабда (labda)

• labda in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λάβδα (lábda), a form of λάμβδα (lámbda).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫab.da]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlab.d̪a]

labda m (genitive labdae); first declension

1. The letter lambda, Λ
2. A voluptuary

First-declension noun.

• (voluptuary): irrumātor

• “labda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• labda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• (obsolete) labuda

Borrowed from Omani Arabic لابد (lābid, “perhaps”), from Arabic لَا بُدَّ (lā budda, “it is absolutely necessary”). Given the frequent use of this phrase, the meaning was gradually weakened; compare Persian لابد (lâbod, “probably”).

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labda

1. perhaps