As a Hindi name
लाब · lāb · s.m.
corr. of lābh, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 944
Cited formation "लाब" is ला- + ब: ब means "the twenty-third consonant in Hindi", and the prefix ला- forms without. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §5(4) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
Perdix Chinensis, (also ā)
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Dictionary citations
lāba m. (often written lāva) Perdix Chinensis, R.; Suśr. (also f(ā). )
a partic. gait, Saṃgīt.
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