Where does “laban” come from?
laban (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog labhan, from Tagalog laba, from English lava, from Italian lava, from Neapolitan lava, from Latin lābēs, from Latin lābor, from Old Latin labos — fox.
laban (Tagalog): fight; quarrel; match; contest; game; a going...
Definitions
- fight; quarrel; match; contest; game; a going...
Ancestry of “laban”, step by step
laban traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog labhan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | labhan | to wash clothes; to launder |
| 2 | Tagalog | laba | washing of clothes; laundering; laundry |
| 3 | English | lava | The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its... |
| 4 | Italian | lava | third-person singular present indicative of... |
| 5 | Neapolitan | lava | a torrent of rain which washed the streets |
| 6 | Latin | lābēs | fall, collapse |
| 7 | Latin | lābor | work |
| 8 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 9 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 10 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 11 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 12 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |
via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laban
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | *laban | to oppose; to go against someone |