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# lev

«lev» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **divided into 100 stotinki** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a lev, leva) — Bulgarian money; Ukrainian and Russian word in Latin letters

### meaning for a pupil

1) (money) The money of Bulgaria; one lev is divided into 100 stotinki. Plural: leva. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lev/#m1)

2) (Ukrainian, Russian «лев») The word for «lion»; it sounds like «lev» to an English ear. It is not an English word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lev/#m2)

3) (a name) Lev is a man's first name, as in the Russian writer Lev (Leo) Tolstoy, and a Hebrew name meaning «heart». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lev/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Lev means heart in Hebrew, and its numerical value is thirty-two, matching the thirty-two paths of wisdom in Sefer Yetzirah. In the primary lessons: In maths and geography lessons about money around the world, the Bulgarian lev appears in exchange-rate problems. In stories from Eastern Europe, Lev is a common name. Phrases: Bulgarian lev.

### examples

- In the Bahir, the Thirty-Two Ways are associated with the gematria value of לֵב lev ‘heart’ ([Bahir 63], [Bahir 95] inter alia cf. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lev/#x1)
- The lev is the money of Bulgaria. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lev/#x2)
- The ice cream cost three leva. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lev/#x3)
- One lev is 100 stotinki. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lev/#x4)
- Lev Tolstoy wrote very long novels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lev/#x5)
- «Lev» means «lion» in Ukrainian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lev/#x6)
- In our maths problem, we changed pounds into Bulgarian leva. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lev/#x7)

### note

Plural of the money: leva. Pronounced LEV. «Lev» as a word for lion is Ukrainian/Russian, not English. Do not confuse with «level» or «leave». Bulgaria decided to replace the lev with the euro.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lev» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lev/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.