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labba

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See also: lábba, lábbá, and Labba

English

Noun

labba (countable and uncountable, plural labbas or labba)

  1. (Guyana) A paca (large rodent) or its meat.
    • 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.
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Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

Verb

labba

  1. alternative spelling of laaba

Icelandic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

More information infinitive nafnháttur, supine sagnbót ...
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
More information infinitive nafnháttur, supine sagnbót ...
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
More information strong declension (sterk beyging), singular (eintala) ...
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Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of laborera.

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial) short for laborera

Conjugation

More information active, passive ...

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

References

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