li

See also: Appendix:Variations of "li"

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

An early romanization of Chinese Mandarin 里 (lǐ). As a Korean unit, via the Yale romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from the Chinese distance.

Alternative forms

  • (Korea): ri

Noun

li (plural lis or li)

  1. The Chinese mile, a traditional unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).
  2. The Korean mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.
Synonyms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 市厘 (lí).

Noun

li (plural li)

  1. A traditional Chinese unit of weight, equal to one-thousandth of a liang, or fifty milligrams.

Etymology 3

From Mandarin 禮 (lǐ).

Noun

li (plural li)

  1. (Chinese philosophy) A meaningful ceremony or ritual; etiquette, behaviour.

Etymology 4

From Mandarin 鬲 (lì).

Noun

li (plural li)

  1. An ancient Chinese cauldron having three hollow legs.

Etymology 5

Symbol

li

  1. (mathematics) Logarithmic integral function

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology 1

Noun

li f

  1. smallpox

Etymology 2

From Latin līnum.

Noun

li m

  1. flax

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin illis, dative common plural of ille. Compare Romanian le.

Pronoun

li f (short/unstressed accusative form of eali)

  1. (direct object) them (all-female group)
  • lã (feminine/masculine plural dative- short/unstressed form)
  • u (feminine singular accusative- short/unstressed form)
  • (a) lor (feminine/masculine plural dative- long/stressed form)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin illī, dative common singular of ille.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

li (enclitic and proclitic)

  1. him, her, it (indirect object)

Declension

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

li m (uncountable)

  1. li (Chinese unit of distance).

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian lui, French lui, or Spanish le, plus the i of personal pronouns.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /li/

Pronoun

li (accusative lin, possessive lia)

  1. (personal pronoun) he

Derived terms

  • ili (“they”)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /li/

Noun

li m (plural lis)

  1. li (Chinese unit of distance).

Further reading

Anagrams

Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

From French lui.

Pronoun

li

  1. he
  2. him
  3. she
  4. her
  5. it

Etymology 2

From French lire.

Verb

li

  1.  To read

Ido

Etymology

lu (“he, him, she, her, it, that”) +‎ -i (“-s; plural”)

Pronoun

li pl

  1. they, them
  • ili (“they, them”) (masculine)
  • eli (“they, them”) (feminine)
  • oli (“they, them”) (neuter)

Interlingue

Article

li

  1. the

Istriot

Article

li

  1. masculine plural definite article
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:
      Ti me pari oûna dea infra li dai,
      You seem to me a goddess among the gods,

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /li/, [l̺i]
  • Homophone: lì

Etymology 1

From Latin illī, nominative masculine plural of ille.

Pronoun

li m pl (female le, singular lo)

  1. (accusative) them
    Li ricordo. ― I remember them.
Usage notes

Never elides.

See also

Etymology 2

Variant of gli.

Article

li m pl (singular lo)

  1. Archaic form of gli.
    li studente ― the students

Pronoun

li m pl (singular lo)

  1. (dative) Archaic form of gli.

Etymology 3

Adverb

li

  1. Misspelling of lì.

Anagrams

Kurdish

Preposition

li

  1. in
    li Kurdistanê (in Kurdistan)
  2. li ser: on:
    li ser maseyê (on the table)

Livonian

Verb

li

  1. 2nd person singular imperative form of lǟdõ

Maltese

Pronunciation

Pronoun

li

  1. (relative) who; that
    ir-raġel li seraq il-karozza
    the man who stole the car

Mandarin

Romanization

li (Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄧ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of 哩
  2. Pinyin transcription of 裏
  3. Pinyin transcription of 裡
  4. Pinyin transcription of 里

li

  1. Nonstandard spelling of lī.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of lí.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of lǐ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of lì.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French le, lui

Pronoun

li

  1. he, she, it (third-person singular personal pronoun)

See also

Michif

Etymology

From French le.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [lɪ]

Article

li m (feminine la, masculine and feminine plural lii)

  1. the

Miskito

Noun

li

  1. water

References

  • Eduard Conzemius, Ethnographical Survey of the Miskito and Sumu Indians (1932)

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

Pronoun

li

  1. Alternative form of 'i

Niuatoputapu

Article

li

  1. the

Norman

Etymology

From Old French li, from Vulgar Latin *illui, a Vulgar Latin dative of Classical Latin ille.

Pronoun

li

  1. (Guernsey) him

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hlíð

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liː/

Noun

li f, m (definite singular lia or lien, indefinite plural lier, definite plural liene)

  1. A sloping mountainside or hillside covered with grass or forest.

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hlíð

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liː/

Noun

li f (definite singular lia, indefinite plural lier, definite plural liene)

  1. A sloping mountainside or hillside covered with grass or forest.

References

Novial

Article

li

  1. the

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin ille (“that”).

Pronunciation

Article

li

  1. the (masculine nominative singular and plural definite article)
Inflection

Etymology 2

Pronoun

li

  1. third-person singular indirect object pronoun; to him, to her, to it
Descendants

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ille (“that”).

Article

li

  1. the (masculine nominative singular and plural definite article)

Polish

Etymology 1

Adverb

li (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) only

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 里 (lǐ)

Noun

li n (indeclinable)

  1. li, Chinese unit of distance
  2. li, Chinese unit of weight

Etymology 3

From Mandarin 禮／礼 (lǐ)

Noun

li n (indeclinable)

  1. li, a meaningful ceremony or ritual

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -i

Verb

li

  1. First-person singular (eu) preterite indicative of ler

Romanian

Pronoun

li (dative form of ele; form of le)

  1. to them

Usage notes

This word is used when le (which is dative) is combined with the following accusatives:

  • îl (the accusative of el, contracted as li-l)
  • îi (the accusative of ei, contracted as li-i)
  • le (the accusative of ele)
  • se (the reflexive accusative of all third-person pronouns)

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *li.

Pronunciation

Particle

li (Cyrillic spelling ли)

  1. question-forming interrogative particle (postpositive, unlike other particles, never first word in a sentence)
    poznaješ li me — do you know me?
    jesi li stigao na odredište? — did you reach the destination?
    jeste li ga vid(j)eli — have you seen him?
    gd(j)e li se samo nalazimo? — where could we be?
    kad li će doći? — when will he/they come?
    je li? — Is it? (Is that so? Isn't that so?)
  2. used as conjunction with da (except in Croatian, "je li" is used instead)
    da li — whether
    nemam pojma da li je došao — I have no idea whether he came (Croatian: "nemam pojma je li došao")
  3. (as a conjunction) if
    pokušaš li me napasti, ja ću ti uzvratiti — should you try to attack me, I'll strike you back (when "li" is used in this sense, it is usually translated as a subjunctive form "should", and when "ako" is used, it is usually translated as "if" - ako me pokušaš napasti = if you try to attack me)
  4. used as an emphatic intensifier
    a sn(ij)eg pada li pada — the snow just keeps falling and falling...
    d(ij)ete plače li plače — the child just keeps crying and crying...

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin illī or illae, nominative plurals of ille.

Article

li m pl, f pl

  1. (definite) the

See also

Sicilian articles
Masculine Feminine
indefinite singular un, nu na
definite singular lu, û la, â
definite plural li, î li, î

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 璃 (“glass”).

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cái) li

  1. cup, glass (def. 2)

See also

Volapük

Particle

li

  1. Appended with a hyphen to a verb, it turns the entire clause it is in into a question.

Walloon

Alternative forms

l', el

Article

li m, f

  1. the (before a singular name)

Pronoun

li

  1. him, her, it (direct object, before verb)

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

Noun

li f

  1. Alternative form of lid[1]

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lé, specifically the accusative léa, from Proto-Germanic *lewô. The duosyllabic accent might be derived from the definite singular form.

Pronunciation

  • (Hössjö) IPA(key): [lìː]
  • (Skellefteå) IPA(key): [lèɪ̯ːj]
  • (Luleå) IPA(key): [lø̀ʏ̯ː]
  • (Kalix) IPA(key): [lɛ̀ɪ̯ː]
    Rhymes: -ìː
    (ð-dropping) Rhymes: -ìː, -ìːð
    (northern í-ý merger) Rhymes: -ìː, -ỳː

Noun

lî m (definite singular lien)

  1. scythe[1]
Compounds
  • libɑka (“the trailing edge of a scythe”)
  • liörv (“shaft on a scythe”)

Etymology 3

Noun

li n (definite singular liä)

  1. afterbirth from calving[2]
Synonyms
  • ättföring f
  • leg n

Etymology 4

From Old Norse líða, from Proto-Germanic *līþaną. The sense “suffer” may be borrowed from Middle Low German, but derive from the same root in any case.

Verb

li

  1. to elapse[1]
    he li på dɑgen
    The day draws to a close.
    he var brɑno lide på
    It was quite late.
  2. to suffer[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Larsson, Evert, Söderström, Sven, “lid s. li:, lie s. lî:, lida v. li: etc”, in Hössjömålet : ordbok över en sydvästerbottnisk dialekt [The Hössjö speech: dictionary of a southern Westrobothnian dialect] (in Swedish) →ISBN, page 119
  2. ↑ Rietz, Johan Ernst, “LI” in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 400
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