Pronunciation: p ō - ' lä-b ē - ə n, - ' l ā -
Function: noun
Etymology: Polab, ultimately from Polabian po on + Låbí, the Elbe River
Date: 1866
1 or Po · lab \ p ō - ' läb \ : a member of a Slavic people formerly dwelling in the basin of the Elbe and on the Baltic coast of Germany
2 : the extinct West Slavic language of the Polabians