l

Letter

l (upper case L)

1. The twelfth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Gallery

• Letter styles
• 
  Capital and lowercase versions of L, in normal and italic type
• 
  Uppercase and lowercase L in Fraktur

See also

• ɮ (lezh)

Other representations of L:

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /l/

Letter

l lower case (upper case L)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛl
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ɛl/

Letter

l (lower case, upper case L)

1. The twelfth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Noun

l m (plural l'en, diminutive l'etje n)

1. (euphemistic) Short for lul or any other word starting with an l.

See also

• Previous letter: k
• Next letter: m

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Letter

l (lower case, upper case L)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called lo and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l/

Letter

l (upper case L)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /æl/

• Audio

  (file)

Letter

l (lower case, upper case L)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l/

Letter

l (lower case, upper case L)

1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology

Contraction of li, from French lui.

Pronoun

l

1. Contraction of li.

Pronunciation

• (context pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l/
• (letter name) IPA^(key): /le/

Letter

l (upper case L)

1. The twelfth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

l m, f (invariable)

1. See under L

Article

l m (singular)

1. the

See also

• la, l'
• i
• les

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [l]

Letter

L

l (lower case, upper case L)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /l/

Letter

l (upper case L)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) kēratēḑ; A a, Ā ā, Ä ä, Ǟ ǟ, B b, D d, Ḑ ḑ, E e, Ē ē, F f, G g, H h, I i, Ī ī, J j, K k, L l, Ļ ļ, M m, N n, Ņ ņ, O o, Ō ō, Ȯ ȯ, Ȱ ȱ, Õ õ, Ȭ ȭ, P p, R r, Ŗ ŗ, S s, Š š, T t, Ț ț, U u, Ū ū, V v, Z z, Ž ž

Letter

l (lower case, upper case L)

1. The twelfth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Article

l

1. the (definite article)

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /elː/, /ɛlː/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /l/, /ɭ/, /ɽ/

Letter

l

1. The 12th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Pronunciation

• Audio (BR)

  (file)

Letter

l (lower case, upper case L)

1. The twelfth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
   1. (humorous, possibly offensive) Sometimes, the consonant r is changed to l when depicting stereotypical speech of a Chinese person.
      • 1989, "O estranho que veio da China", Ranma ½, episode 1, Brazilian dub

        Chinese man: [speaking in broken Portuguese] Vocês, senholes, muito estlanhos, não? Este lugar muito peligoso! Ninguém usa agola, tem mais de cem fontes aqui. E cada uma delas tem uma lenda telivelmente tlágica!

        Chinese man: [speaking in broken Portuguese] You, gentlemen, are very weird, no? This place is very dangerous! Nobody uses it nowadays, it has more than one hundred springs here. And each one has a terribly tragic legend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /el/

Letter

l (lowercase, capital L)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /l/. Preceded by k and followed by m.

Alternative forms

• (uppercase) L

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /l/

Letter

l (Cyrillic spelling л)

1. The 16th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by k and followed by lj.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /l/

Letter

l (upper case L)

1. The twentieth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) bukva; A a,  â, B b, C c, Č č, Ʒ ʒ, Ǯ ǯ, D d, Đ đ, E e, F f, G g, Ǧ ǧ, Ǥ ǥ, H h, I i, J j, K k, Ǩ ǩ, L l, M m, N n, Ŋ ŋ, O o, Õ õ, P p, R r, S s, Š š, T t, U u, V v, Z z, Ž ž, Å å, Ä ä, ʹ

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /l/
• (letter name) IPA^(key): /ˈele/

  • Audio (Spain)

    (file)

Letter

l (lower case, upper case L)

1. The 12th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Letter

l (lower case, upper case L)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called le and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /l/

Letter

l (upper case L)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) harp; A a, B b, Ç ç, D d, E e, Ä ä, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, Ž ž, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ň ň, O o, Ö ö, P p, R r, S s, Ş ş, T t, U u, Ü ü, W w, Y y, Ý ý, Z z

Letter

l (lower case, upper case L)

1. The twelfth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.