lauva

Etymology
Borrowed from (cf. 🇨🇬), from 🇨🇬, a borrowing from 🇨🇬. It has been suggested, on the basis of 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, that there was an earlier Slavo-Balto-Germanic term with the root ; if so, this term was lost very early on in 🇨🇬, replaced by the 🇨🇬 borrowing. First mentioned (as, ) in 17th-century Bible translations. A family name is attested from the 16th century.

Noun

 * 1) lion in general
 * 2) specifically, a male lion
 * 1) specifically, a male lion
 * 1) specifically, a male lion
 * 1) specifically, a male lion

Usage notes
The term is ambigenous. It is masculine when it refers to males and feminine when it refers to females. It is, however, always declined as a feminine noun, with the exception of its dative singular form, which is when it refers to a male and  when it refers to a female.