leben

British

/ ˈlɛbən /

noun

a semiliquid food made from curdled milk in N Africa and the Levant

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Etymology

Origin of leben

C17: from Arabic laban

Example Sentences

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Under the body is the inscription: "Wir starben, auf dass Deutschland lebe, so lasset uns leben in euch" - "We died that Germany lives, so let us live in you".

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2014

It's all very apparent today, this spirit of "leben und leben lassen"�a cheery apathy and beery tolerance combined with a benign condescension toward anything German that is not also old Bavarian.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were certain runaways whom Fritz the Great bullied back into the battle with a 'R�, wollt ihr ewig leben?'

From Time Magazine Archive

Hoch soil er leben, Hock soil er leben, Hoch soil er leben.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I’m in dry-goods business twenty years—fifteen on Grand Stritt and five on Graham Am-yer and never ins leben do I see a seven months so big.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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