( lanpostua)

iz. [from *aita-bertze (father-other), cf. Lat. "alter pater"] (B) (L)

1. ( aitapontekoa) godfather

2. (irud.)

a. connection; Jonek \aitabitxi asko ditu eta horregatik lortu zuen lanpostua Jon' s got a lot of connections and that' s why he got the job

b. ( babeslea) sponsor, patron

iz.

1. Fin.

a. order

b. [ izenen aurrean ] order-; \eskabide-orri order form | order sheet

a. ( lanpostua eskatzeko) application

b. ( zerbait eskatzeko idazkia) application, petition; Eusko Jaurlaritzari egindako \eskabidea a petition made to the Basque Government; \eskabidea ontzat hartzeko in order to accept the petition

iz.

a. ( oro.) work; etxean zer \lan egiten duzu? what work do you do at home?; irakasleei \lana errazteko in order to make the work easy for teachers; irakurleei \lana errazteko to make it easy for readers; esku\lan handy work; gaueko \lan i. night work ii. ( oro.) Lagunart. smuggling; taldeko \lan team work, group work; \lan arin light work; \lan aspergarri {boring || tedious} work; \lan handi a lot of work; \lan nekagarri {tiresome || wearisome} work, backbreaking work; \lan xehe menial work; \lan zail painstaking work; \lan eta \lan ari da he's working his tail off; \lanean ari dira they're working; \lanean hasi zen he started working; \lanean leher egin to work one's {head || tail} off | to work o.s. to death

b. ( nekea) toil, labour (GB), labor (USA) ; forced labor (USA) ; \lan behartu forced labour (GB), forced labor (USA)

c. (esa.) hau \lana! what a bother! (GB) | how terrible! | what a bummer! (USA) Argot. ; ez naiz mutil ederra, hau \lana! I'm not a handsome boy, {what a bother || what luck!}!; \lan eta \lan beti always working and working

d. [ izenen aurrean ] work-; \lan-talde work group; \lan-tresnak work tools

a. ( lan egitea) work; \lanaren bila dabil he's looking for work; \lanera joan to go to work; \lanetik bizi behar da you have to live from working; \lanetik etxera joan to go from work to home; \lanik eza lack of work; \lanik gabekoak the jobless; ongi \\ gaizki saritutako \lana well-paid \\ poorly paid work

b. [ izenen aurrean ] work, working; \lan-orduak working hours

c. baserri-\lanetan ari da he's doing farm work

d. (esa.) \lan lasterra, \lan alferra (atsot.) haste makes waste (atsot.)

3. ( \lan bat, \lana)

a. ( lanpostua) job; i-i \lana eman to give sb a job | to employ sb; \lana utzi zuen he quit his job; \lan bat hasi to start a job; etxez etxe saltzen ibiltzea da bere \lana his job is going around and selling door to door

b. ( eginkizuna) task, job, assignment

4. (Pol.) (Ind.)

a. labour (GB), labor (USA) ; labour; kapitala eta \lana capital and labour; \lanaren irabaziak earnings from labour

b. [ izenen aurrean ] labour- (GB), labor- (USA) ; \lan arazoak labour problems; \lan-banaketa division of labour; \lan hitzarmenak labour agreements; L\lan Ministeritza i. Ministry of Labour ii. (USA) Department of Labor

5. ( obra)

a. work; I. Kant-en \lan hautatuak selected works of I. Kant; Goethe-ren L\lan Guztiak the Complete Works of Goethe; haren azken \lana irakurri nahi dut I want to read his latest work

b. (Arteg.) zur-\lan wood work; har-\lan stone work

6. \lanak [ izen plurala ] works; herri-\lanak public works

7. ( naturako indarrari d.) force; uraren \lanaren ondorioak the effects of the force of water; pozoiak bere \lan egin zuen the poison took effect

8. Fis. work; \lana kilogrametan neurtuta work measured in kilograms

9. ( zailtasuna) sinesteak \lana du it's hard to believe; \lanak eman zizkidan hori egiteak it was hard for me to do that; \lanak izango dituk hori egiteko it'll be hard for you to do that

10. ( kaltea) \lanean ezartzen nauzu you're putting me in a bind

11. Nekaz. early wheat harvest