las

las

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Gur Lama terms

• IPA^(key): /lɑːz/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːz

las

1. plural of la

• -sal, -sal-, ALS, ALs, ASL, LSA, SAL, SLA, Sal, a/s/l, al's, als, asl, sal, sal-

From Latin illas (“those ones”).

las

1. them (feminine direct object)

• lasu, alas, alasu

From Latin laxō.

las

1. alternative form of alas

• lãsari, lãsare

Latinizing modification of the popular form llas, from Old Catalan las, from Latin lassus.

• llas

las (feminine lassa, masculine plural lassos, feminine plural lasses)

1. weary, tired

• lassar
• lassitud

• “las” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• “las”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

las

1. plural of la

From Old Cornish lad, from Proto-Brythonic *llad, from Proto-Celtic *latis. Cognate with Irish and Scottish Gaelic laith, and Welsh llad.

las m (plural lasow)

1. alcohol

   Synonym: alkohol

2. liquor

Borrowed from English lace.

las m (plural lasow or lasys)

1. lace

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

las

1. soft mutation of glas (“blue; green; grey”)

From Middle Low German las (“patch, scrap”).

las c (singular definite lasen, plural indefinite laser)

1. rag
2. shred

• “las” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “las” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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• Rhymes: -ɑs

las c (plural lassen, diminutive lasje n)

1. joint, weld

• Afrikaans: las
• → Indonesian: las

las

1. singular past indicative of lezen
2. inflection of lassen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• als, sla

• lase

las

1. second-person singular imperative of laskma

   Las ma söön.

   Let me eat.

lase governs the adessive (verb in the infinitive), las governs the nominative (verb in corresponding person, in the present).

las

1. first-person plural past indicative of lesa
2. third-person plural past indicative of lesa

Inherited from Old French las, from Latin lassus.

• IPA^(key): /la/ ~ /lɑ/
• Homophones: lacs (general); la, là (with /a/)

las (feminine lasse, masculine plural las, feminine plural lasses)

1. weary, tired

   Synonyms: épuisé, fatigué

   • 1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes amis [My Friends]‎^[3], Paris: Émile-Paul Frères:

     La solitude me pèse. J’aimerais à avoir un ami, un véritable ami, ou bien une maîtresse à qui je confierais mes peines. Quand on erre, toute une journée, sans parler, on se sent las, le soir dans sa chambre.

     Loneliness weighs heavily on me. I would like to have a friend, a true friend, or a lover to whom I could confide my sorrow. When one wanders all day without speaking to anybody, one feels weary in one's bedroom at night.

• de guerre lasse

Clipping of hélas.

• IPA^(key): /las/

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• Homophones: lace, lacent, laces (general); lasse, lassent, lasses (one pronunciation)

las

1. (dated) alas

   Synonym: hélas

• “las”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

las f pl (feminine singular la, masculine singular lo, masculine plural los)

1. alternative form of as (“the”, feminine plural)

The l- forms of article are compulsorily used after the preposition por and adverb u. It is optional when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, after unstressed pronouns nos, vos and lles (when they are enclitic) of ambos, entrambos, todos, tras and copulative conjunction (e mais and tonic pronouns vós and nós followed by a numerical precision).

• los
• as

las f pl (accusative)

1. alternative form of as (“them”, feminine plural)

The l- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, and are suffixed to the preceding word.

• los
• nas
• as

las m pl

1. plural of la

• IPA^(key): /laːs/

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• Rhymes: -aːs

las

1. first/third-person singular preterite of lesen

las

1. romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐍃

From Dutch las (“welding, joint”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈlas/ [ˈlas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: las

las (plural las-las)

1. weld

   Synonyms: gumpa, kimpal

• “las”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Old Irish lasaid,^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”).^[2]

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠasˠ/^[3]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠosˠ/^[4]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠɔsˠ/^[5]

las (present analytic lasann, future analytic lasfaidh, verbal noun lasadh, past participle lasta)

1. (transitive) to light (start (a fire); illuminate)
2. (intransitive) to blaze (shine like a flame)

• dolasta
• so-lasta

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “las”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “lasaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 420
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “las”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “las”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lě̑sъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlas/
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: las

las m inan (diminutive lôsk, related adjective lasowi or lasny)

1. forest, woods (dense uncultivated tract of trees)

• Stefan Ramułt (1893), “las”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 90
• Jan Trepczyk (1994), “las”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “las”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[4]
• “las”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

las (singular la, masculine los, Hebrew spelling לאס)

1. the (feminine plural)

Inherited from French lasse (“weary, tired”).

• IPA^(key): /las/
• Rhymes: -as

las

1. tired

   Synonyms: dormétik, épwizé, fatigé, fourbu, harasé

las

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of lēsen

Borrowed from Old French laz, from the verb lacier (“to lace”).

• lace, lase, lasse, laz, lesse

• IPA^(key): /laːs/, /las/

las (plural lass)

1. lace
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his las.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• English: lace
• Yola: laace, laase, laus

• “lās, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Generally seen as borrowed from Old Norse lǫskr (“weak”) (from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz) or a related word, with simplification of /sk/ to /s/ like in Northern Middle English asse (“ashes”),^[1] although the lack of unsimplified forms (except for the ambiguous spelling lasce) is problematic.

However, Liberman, following a connection made by Björkman,^[2] instead suggests borrowing from a cognate of Old Danish las (“rag”);^[3] older proposals that he mentions deriving the word from Old English lǣssa, Middle English lesse (“smaller”) or *laddesse, from ladde (“boy, lad”) +‎ -esse (“-ess”) are to be rejected.

The spelling laas is possibly due to the scribe of the Vernon Manuscript incorrectly guessing that this unfamilar Northern dialectal word had a long vowel when copying the Northern Homily Cycle (possibly due to the analogy of Etymology 1); there is no other evidence for a long vowel other than Middle Scots lais, which can be attributed to the late Middle Scots interchange of short and long vowel spellings.

• laas, lasce, lasse, lysse

• IPA^(key): /las/

las (plural lasses)

1. (Lancashire, Northern) A girl; a female baby, child or young adult.^[4]

   Synonyms: girle (rare), mayde, mayde child, mayden, mayden child, wenche

• English: lass
• Middle Scots: las, lasse
  • Scots: lass

las f pl (singular la, masculine l, masculine plural ls)

1. the

   las bacas de l fazendeiro

   the cows of the farmer

las

1. past of lesa

   Det var forfattaren sjølv som las.

   It was the author himself who was reading.

• eras (Gascon)
• lei, leis (_V) (Provençal)
• li (Niçard)
• as, řas (País mentonasc)

From Latin illās.

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las (singular la, masculine lo, masculine plural los)

1. the; feminine plural definite article

• a las

See a las

las !

1. alas

From Latin illās.

las (singular la)

1. the; feminine plural definite article

• Occitan: las

• les

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lě̑sъ. First attested in the second half of the 13th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /lʲas/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /lʲas/

las m animacy unattested (diminutive lasek, related adjective leśny)

1. (attested in Lesser Poland, Greater Poland) forest, woods (dense uncultivated tract of trees)
   • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎^{scan transliteration, transcription}, numbers 49, 11, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament]:

     Moia sø wszistka zwerzøta lassow (omnes ferae silvarum)

     [Moja są wszystka źwierzęta lasow (omnes ferae silvarum)]

   • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 77r:

     Lucus walt silua nemus idem czyemny lasz

     [Lucus walt silua nemus idem ciemny las]

   • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 125v:

     Silua eyn walt lyąsz

     [Silua eyn walt las]

• Polish: las, les (Middle Polish)
• Silesian: las, les (Southern Silesian)

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “las”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965), “las”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
• Mańczak, Witold (2017), “las”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “las”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “las”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
• Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “las”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /las, ɽas/

las (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling لس)

1. it
2. him
3. her (dist acc)

• les (Biori)

• Henrik Liljegren; Naseem Haider (2011), “las”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[5], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Borrowed from Middle Low German las.

• IPA^(key): /las/

las m ?

1. salmon

• Polański, Kazimierz (1971), “las”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 2 (ďüzd – ľotü), Wrocław; Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 314
• Polański, Kazimierz; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “las”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 87
• Olesch, Reinhold (1962), “Las”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 493

• les (Middle Polish)

Inherited from Old Polish las.

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• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: las
• Homophone: Las

las m inan (diminutive lasek, related adjective leśny or lasowy)

1. forest, woods (dense uncultivated tract of trees)

   Synonym: (dialectal) bór

2. forest (dense collection or amount)
3. forest (large number or quantity of something that makes it difficult to orient oneself and act properly)

Both bór and las have been used to a similar degree in the Kuyavian dialect.

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), las is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 24 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 3 times in essays, 48 times in fiction, and 25 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 109 times, making it the 566th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

• las in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• las in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• las in PWN's encyclopedia
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “las”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “LAS”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 19.12.2018
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “las”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “las”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “las”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 686
• las in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Oskar Kolberg (1867), “bór”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 268

las

1. alternative form of as (third-person feminine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic and mesoclitic following a verb form ending in a consonant (-z, -r and -s, but not -m); the consonant is elided and the preceding vowel takes an accent if necessary

las

1. inflection of lăsa:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *volsь.

las f (Cyrillic spelling лас)

1. (Kajkavian) hair

   Synonym: vlas

• “las”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga kajkavskoga književnog jezika [Dictionary of the Croatian Kajkavian literary language] (in Serbo-Croatian), https://kajkavski.hr, 1984–2026

• les (Southern Silesian)

Inherited from Old Polish las.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlas/

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• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: las

las m inan (related adjective leśny)

1. forest, woods (dense uncultivated tract of trees)

   Synonyms: (Cieszyn) dōmbrowa, gŏj

• las in dykcjonorz.eu
• las in silling.org

• laſ (Bohorič alphabet)

From Proto-Slavic *volsь. Compare with obsolete vlas. First attested in the 15th century.

• IPA^(key): /láːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs
• Hyphenation: las
• Homophone: laz

lȃs m inan or f

1. (anatomy) hair on top of head
2. (obsolete, dialectal) hair (anywhere)^[→SSKJ]
   • 2019 March 5, “Faun je ... Izvor in pomen besede "faun"”, in Punto Marinero‎^[6]:

     Ta kratkodobna, prekrita z lasjo bitje je bila zelo priljubljena med prebivalci rimskih vasi.

     This short-lived being covered with hair was very popular between the inhabitants of Roman villages.

3. nap, pile (The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile)
4. (agriculture) corn silk

Unlike in English, the singular is reserved only for a single hair. For hair as a collection of many hairs, the plural is used. The feminine form is chiefly western dialects ^[→SSKJ] and is also commonly used as an uncountable noun (see quotation under sense 2).

First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , long mixed accent, ending -u in genitive singular , ending -je in nominative plural , null ending in genitive dual/plural , special endings in plural from former i-stem declension , special accent changes
nom. sing.	lȃs
gen. sing.	lasȗ
	singular	dual	plural
nominative imenovȃlnik	lȃs	lȃsa	lasjẹ̑
genitive rodȋlnik	lasȗ	lás	lás
dative dajȃlnik	lȃsu, lȃsi	lȃsoma, lȃsama	lasẹ̑m
accusative tožȋlnik	lȃs	lȃsa	lasẹ̑, lȃse+prep.
locative mẹ̑stnik	lȃsu, lȃsi	lasẹ́h	lasẹ́h
instrumental orọ̑dnik	lȃsom	lȃsoma, lȃsama	lasmí
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	lȃs	lȃsa	lasjẹ̑

First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent, special accent changes
nom. sing.	lȃs
gen. sing.	lȃsa
	singular	dual	plural
nominative imenovȃlnik	lȃs	lȃsa	lási
genitive rodȋlnik	lȃsa	lás	lás
dative dajȃlnik	lȃsu, lȃsi	lȃsoma, lȃsama	lásom
accusative tožȋlnik	lȃs	lȃsa	láse
locative mẹ̑stnik	lȃsu, lȃsi	lásih, lásah	lásih, lásah
instrumental orọ̑dnik	lȃsom	lȃsoma, lȃsama	lási
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	lȃs	lȃsa	lási

• chiefly western dialects, often uncountable

Second feminine declension (i-stem) , long mixed accent
nom. sing.	lȃs
gen. sing.	lasȋ
	singular	dual	plural
nominative imenovȃlnik	lȃs	lasȋ	lasȋ
genitive rodȋlnik	lasȋ	lasī	lasī
dative dajȃlnik	lási	lasẹ̄ma	lasẹ̄m
accusative tožȋlnik	lȃs	lasȋ	lasȋ
locative mẹ̑stnik	lási	lasẹ́h	lasẹ́h
instrumental orọ̑dnik	lasjọ́	lasẹ̄ma	lasmí
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	lȃs	lasȋ	lasȋ

• (sense 1)

• (sense 2)

• volna
• žima
• runo
• laso (some forms are the same)

• “las”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “las”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lě̑sъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlas/
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: las

las m inan (related adjective lasny)

1. forest, woods (dense uncultivated tract of trees)

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908), “lãs”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[7] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 544

• IPA^(key): /las/ [las]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: las

Inherited from Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

las f pl

1. feminine plural definite article; the
   • 2025 June 20, Randi Kaye and David von Blohn, “El ICE renueva acuerdo con el centro de detención que, según la agencia, no cumplía las normas”, in CNN en Español‎^[8]:

     Sin embargo, en abril de este año, cuando las deportaciones se dispararon bajo la segunda administración de Trump, el ICE restableció su contrato con el condado de Glades.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

las f pl

1. accusative of ellas; them
2. accusative of ustedes (when referring to more than one woman); you all (formal)
3. feminine plural pronoun

   las que no hablan

   those (women) who do not speak

las m pl

1. plural of la

• “los”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

las

1. past passive indicative of lägga

• IPA^(key): /laːs/

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

las

1. soft mutation of glas

From English lace.

las f (plural lasau or lasiau or lasys, singulative lasen or lasyn)

1. lace

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “las”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies