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label

Pronunciation: /ˈlabəl/

“label” is a Malay word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached
  2. a name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group
  3. a company that sells records

verb

  1. to put a label on (something)
  2. to give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing

Etymology

Borrowed from English label, from Middle English label (“narrow band, strip of cloth”), from Old French label, lambel (Modern French lambeau), from Frankish *lappā (“torn piece of cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *lappǭ, *lappô (“cloth stuff, rag, scraps, flap, dewlap, lobe, rabbit ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“blade”).

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