different between leu vs lev

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Romanian leu (“lion”), from Latin le? (“lion”). Doublet of Leo, lev, lion, and Lyon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?.u?/

Noun

leu (plural lei)

1. The unit of currency of Romania, equal to one hundred bani.
2. The unit of currency of Moldova, equal to one hundred bani.

Translations

Anagrams

• -ule, Elu, Lue, lue, ule

Bourguignon

Alternative forms

• lei

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. (Morvan) place

Catalan

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. leu (currency of Romania)
2. leu (currency of Moldova)

Further reading

• “leu” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “leu” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “leu” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Finnish

Noun

leu

1. leu (unit of currency of Romania and Moldova)

Declension

Synonyms

• lei

Anagrams

• lue

French

Etymology

From Romanian leu (“lion”). Doublet of lion.

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. leu (currency of Romania)

Further reading

• “leu” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• élu, lue

Galician

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. leu

Verb

leu

1. Third-person singular (el, ela, vostede^?) preterite indicative of ler

Middle French

Verb

leu

1. past participle of lire

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin lupus.

Alternative forms

• lou, lu

Noun

leu m (oblique plural leus, nominative singular leus, nominative plural leu)

1. wolf (animal)

Descendants

• French: loup
• French: à la queue leu leu

Etymology 2

From Latin locus.

Noun

leu m (oblique plural leus, nominative singular leus, nominative plural leu)

1. place

Synonyms

• endroit

Derived terms

• Middle French: lieu
  • French: lieu

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?eu?/

Pronoun

leu

1. third-person plural accusative of la
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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish lejos and French loin .

Adjective

leu

1. far

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?lew/

Etymology 1

Verb

leu

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) preterite indicative of ler

Etymology 2

From Romanian leu (“leu; lion”).

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. leu (currency unit of Romania and Moldova)

Romanian

Alternative forms

• ??? (post-1930s (Moldovan) Cyrillic spelling)

Etymology

Probably a later learned borrowing from Latin le? (“lion”) (around the 17th century), itself from Ancient Greek ???? (lé?n). If inherited from the nominative form, the expected result in Romanian would have been *ieu (as iepure from leporem); furthermore, all the other Romance cognates were derived from the accusative form le?nem or genitive le?nis (and some were borrowings themselves). Cf. also l?un and L?une(le) (“a river in Romania”), as well as leoaie.

For the name of the currency, it was probably based on the Dutch leeuwendaalder (“lion thaler/dollar”), which depicted a lion; cf. daalder, also German löwenthaler. This traces back to the 17th century, when the Dutch currency was used in the Romanian principalities. Another explanation gives the origin of this sense as a calque of Turkish arslan (“lion”), which was also used to refer to a type of currency with a lion on it; see also piastru (English piastre). Compare also the sense of currency with Bulgarian ??? (lev).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lew/

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. lion
2. leu (the Romanian unit of currency)

Declension

Quotations

Derived terms

• leoaic?
• leoaie

References

Slovak

Etymology

From Romanian leu (“lion”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?u?/
• Homophone: lev

Noun

leu m (nominative plural lei)

1. leu (currency of Romania)

Usage notes

This noun can also be undeclined.

Further reading

• leu in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. leu

Walloon

Alternative forms

• leû

Etymology

From Old French leu, from Latin lupus.

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. wolf

References

• “Leu” in Laurent Remacle, Dictionnaire wallon-français (1852).
• “Leu” in Joseph Hubert, Dictionnaire wallon-liégeois et français (1853).

English

Etymology

From Bulgarian ??? (lev), a variant of ??? (l?v, “lion”). Doublet of Leo, leu, lion, and Lyon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?v/

Noun

lev (plural leva or levs)

1. The currency of Bulgaria, divided into 100 stotinki

Translations

References

Anagrams

• ELV, vel

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech lev, from Proto-Slavic *l?v?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?f]
• Hyphenation: lev
• Rhymes: -?f

Noun

lev m anim

1. lion
2. (heraldry) lion

Declension

Further reading

• lev in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• lev in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hleifr, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“bread”), cognate with Swedish lev, English loaf, German Laib, Gothic ???????????????????????? (hlaifs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??v/, [?le??w], [?lew?]

Noun

lev c (singular definite leven, plural indefinite leve)

1. (archaic) bread

Inflection

References

• “Lev,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 2

From Bulgarian ??? (lev).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?f/, [?l?f]

Noun

lev c (singular definite leven, plural indefinite leva)

1. lef (currency in Bulgaria)

Inflection

References

• “lev” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??v/, [?le??w], [?lew?]

Verb

lev

1. imperative of leve

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lev

1. imperative of leve

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lev

1. imperative of leva

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?v?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Noun

lev m

1. lion

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: lev

Further reading

• “lev”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?^[1], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Portuguese

Noun

lev m (plural levs)

1. lev (currency of Bulgaria)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) leav
• (Vallader) leiv

Etymology

From Latin levis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?leng??- (“light”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?f/

Adjective

lev m (feminine singular leva, masculine plural levs, feminine plural levas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) light (of weight)
2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) easy

Synonyms

• (Puter, Vallader) liger

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?u?/
• Homophone: leu

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *l?v?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Noun

lev m (genitive singular leva, nominative plural levy, genitive plural levov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. lion

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Bulgarian ??? (lev).

Noun

lev m (genitive singular leva, nominative plural levy, genitive plural levov, declension pattern of dub)

1. lev, currency of Bulgaria

Declension

References

• lev in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?v?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???/

Noun

l?v m anim (female equivalent levínja)

1. lion

Inflection

Derived terms

• l?v?ek

Further reading

• “lev”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?v/

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish lever, from Old Norse hleifr, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz. Cognate with Icelandic hleifur, English loaf, German Laib.

Noun

lev c

1. a loaf of bread

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lev

1. imperative of leva.

Etymology 3

From Bulgarian ??? (lev, “lion”)

Noun

lev (plural leva)

1. lev, the currency of Bulgaria

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Veps

Etymology

From Russian ??? (lev).

Noun

lev

1. lion

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “???”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika