लवा

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लवा

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Inherited from Sanskrit लब (labá) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-).^[1] Cognate with Bhojpuri लउआ (lauā).

लवा • (lavā) m (Urdu spelling لؤا)

Declension of लवा (masc ā-stem)

^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “labá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 635

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “लवा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 888
Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “लवा”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 4269
Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “लवा”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 669