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lev

English

Etymology

From Bulgarian ??? (lev), a variant of ??? (l?v, “lion”). Doublet of Leo, leu, lion, and Lyon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l?v/

Noun

lev (plural leva or levs)

  1. The currency of Bulgaria, divided into 100 stotinki

Translations

References

Anagrams

  • ELV, vel

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech lev, from Proto-Slavic *l?v?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?l?f]
  • Hyphenation: lev
  • Rhymes: -?f

Noun

lev m anim

  1. lion
  2. (heraldry) lion

Declension

Further reading

  • lev in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
  • lev in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hleifr, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“bread”), cognate with Swedish lev, English loaf, German Laib, Gothic ???????????????????????? (hlaifs).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /le??v/, [?le??w], [?lew?]

Noun

lev c (singular definite leven, plural indefinite leve)

  1. (archaic) bread
Inflection

References

  • “Lev,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 2

From Bulgarian ??? (lev).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l?f/, [?l?f]

Noun

lev c (singular definite leven, plural indefinite leva)

  1. lef (currency in Bulgaria)
Inflection

References

  • “lev” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /le??v/, [?le??w], [?lew?]

Verb

lev

  1. imperative of leve

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lev

  1. imperative of leve

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lev

  1. imperative of leva

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?v?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Noun

lev m

  1. lion

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: lev

Further reading

  • “lev”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?[1], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Portuguese

Noun

lev m (plural levs)

  1. lev (currency of Bulgaria)

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Sutsilvan) leav
  • (Vallader) leiv

Etymology

From Latin levis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?leng??- (“light”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l?f/

Adjective

lev m (feminine singular leva, masculine plural levs, feminine plural levas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) light (of weight)
  2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) easy

Synonyms

  • (Puter, Vallader) liger

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l?u?/
  • Homophone: leu

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *l?v?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Noun

lev m (genitive singular leva, nominative plural levy, genitive plural levov, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. lion
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Bulgarian ??? (lev).

Noun

lev m (genitive singular leva, nominative plural levy, genitive plural levov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. lev, currency of Bulgaria
Declension

References

  • lev in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?v?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l???/

Noun

l?v m anim (female equivalent levínja)

  1. lion

Inflection

Derived terms

  • l?v?ek

Further reading

  • “lev”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /le?v/

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish lever, from Old Norse hleifr, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz. Cognate with Icelandic hleifur, English loaf, German Laib.

Noun

lev c

  1. a loaf of bread
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lev

  1. imperative of leva.

Etymology 3

From Bulgarian ??? (lev, “lion”)

Noun

lev (plural leva)

  1. lev, the currency of Bulgaria
Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Veps

Etymology

From Russian ??? (lev).

Noun

lev

  1. lion

Inflection

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “???”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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les

English

Alternative forms

  • lez

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US), IPA(key): /l?z/
  • Rhymes: -?z

Noun

les (plural leses)

  1. (slang, colloquial) Clipping of lesbian.

Adjective

les (comparative more les, superlative most les)

  1. (slang, colloquial) Clipping of lesbian.

Anagrams

  • ELs, ESL, LSE, SLE, els

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch les (“lesson”), from Middle Dutch lesse, from Latin l?cti?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l?s/

Noun

les (plural lesse, diminutive lesje)

  1. lesson

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin ille (“that one”).

Pronoun

les

  1. them (indirect object)

Synonyms

  • lis

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin illas.

Article

les f pl (masculine sg el, feminine sg la, neuter sg lo, masculine plural los)

  1. (definite) the

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin ill?s, from ille.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /l?s/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /les/
  • Rhymes: -es

Article

les f pl (masculine plural els, masculine singular el, feminine singular la)

  1. the; feminine plural definite article

Pronoun

les (enclitic and proclitic)

  1. them (feminine, direct object)
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin laesus.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /?l?s/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /?l?s/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /?les/

Adjective

les (feminine lesa, masculine plural lesos, feminine plural leses)

  1. (law) harmed
Derived terms
  • crim de lesa humanitat
Related terms
  • il·lès

Further reading

  • “les” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech les, from Proto-Slavic *l?s?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?l?s]
  • Hyphenation: les
  • Rhymes: -?s
  • Homophone: lez

Noun

les m inan

  1. forest

Declension

Synonyms

  • hvozd

Related terms

  • lesní
  • lesník
  • jak se do lesa volá, tak se z lesa ozývá

Further reading

  • les in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
  • les in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

les c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of le

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l?s/
  • Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lesse, from Latin l?cti?.

Noun

les f (plural lessen, diminutive lesje n)

  1. course, lesson
Derived terms
  • gymles
  • gymnastiekles
  • lesgeven
  • lesplan
  • lesrooster
  • lessen
  • paardrijles
  • rijles
  • zangles
  • zwemles
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: les
  • ? Indonesian: les

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

les

  1. first-person singular present indicative of lessen
  2. imperative of lessen

Anagrams

  • els

French

Etymology

From Middle French les, from Old French les, from Latin ill?s m and ill?s f which are the accusative plurals of ille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /le/
  • Homophones: lé, lés

Article

les

  1. plural of le: the
  2. plural of la: the

Usage notes

  • de les is never used: contracted into des.
  • à les is never used: contracted into aux.

Pronoun

les ?

  1. plural of le: them
  2. plural of la: them

Related terms

References

Further reading

  • “les” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • sel

Galician

Verb

les

  1. second-person singular present indicative of ler

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /le?s/

Verb

les

  1. (colloquial) first-person singular present of lesen
  2. (colloquial) singular imperative of lesen

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *lä?? (“hiding place; lurk”). Cognates include Southern Mansi [script needed] (l?š-), Northern Mansi [script needed] (l??-).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?l??]
  • Rhymes: -??

Noun

les (plural lesek)

  2. cover, hideaway, ambush (the place where one is concealed, in wait to attack by surprise, or the act of concealing oneself there)
    Synonyms: lesállás, leshely
    Hypernyms: búvóhely, rejtekhely, (hiding place in general) rejtek
  3. (hunting) hide, blind
  4. (soccer) offside
    Synonyms: lesállás, leshelyzet

Declension

Verb

les

  2. (transitive) to spy, peep, peek
  3. (transitive) to stare, goggle, eye
  4. (transitive) to cheat at a test by looking at someone else's work

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

  • (ambush): les in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
  • (to spy): les in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l??s/
  • Rhymes: -??s

Noun

les n (genitive singular less, nominative plural les)

  1. (linguistics) lexeme (set of inflected forms taken by a single word)
  2. (computing) lexeme (individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis)

Declension

Synonyms

  • (lexeme): flettiorð

Derived terms

  • lesgreining
  • lesgreinir

See also

  • tóki

Verb

les

  1. first-person singular of lesa (“to read”)
    Ég les mikið af þýskum bókum.
    I read a lot of German books.
  2. third-person singular of lesa (“to read”)
    Pálmi les alltaf sömu söguna, þótt hann eigi margar bækur.
    Pálmi always reads the same story, even though he has many books.

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch les (“course, lesson”), from Middle Dutch lesse, from Latin l?cti?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?l?s]
  • Hyphenation: lès

Noun

lès (first-person possessive lesku, second-person possessive lesmu, third-person possessive lesnya)

  1. (education, colloquial) cram school, private tuition.

Verb

lès

  1. (education, colloquial) to cram, to study hard, to learn at cram school.

Etymology 2

From Dutch lis (“reed”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?l?s]
  • Hyphenation: lès

Noun

lès (first-person possessive lesku, second-person possessive lesmu, third-person possessive lesnya)

  1. rein.

Further reading

  • “les” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Pronoun

les

  1. (dative) to them

Usage notes

  • Precedes conjugated verbs.
  • Can be of mixed gender (not just masculine).

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin illas.

Article

les f (plural)

  1. the

See also

  • l
  • la, l'
  • i

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • lese, lees, leas, leasse

Etymology

From Old English l?as (“false, void, loose”).

Cognate with Middle High German l?s (“loose”), Old Swedish lø?s (“loose”); a doublet of loos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l??s/

Adjective

les

  1. false; lying; deceptive

Noun

les (uncountable)

  1. falsehood; a lie

Middle French

Etymology

from Old French les, from Latin ill?s m and ill?s f

Article

les m pl or f pl (masculine singular le, feminine singular la)

  1. the

Descendants

  • French: les

Norman

Pronunciation

Article

les pl (singular lé, and la)

  1. Alternative form of l's

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

les

  1. imperative of lese

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

les

  1. present tense of lesa
  2. imperative of lesa

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?s?.

Noun

les m

  1. forest
    Synonym: hvozd

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: les

Further reading

  • “les”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?[2], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Old French

Etymology

From Latin illas and illos.

Article

les

  1. the (feminine plural oblique definite article)
  2. the (feminine plural nominative definite article)
  3. the (masculine plural oblique definite article)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle French: les
    • French: les

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l?es?/

Pronoun

les

  1. third-person singular masculine of la

Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali.

Noun

les

  1. tail

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lê?s/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *l?s? (“tree, forest”).

Alternative forms

  • (Ijekavian) lij?s

Noun

l?s m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

  1. coffin
  2. (regionally) lumber
  3. (regionally) forest, woods
Declension

Etymology 2

From German Löss.

Noun

l?s m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

  1. (geology) loess

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?s?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?l?s/

Noun

les m (genitive singular lesa, nominative plural lesy, genitive plural lesov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. forest

Declension

Further reading

  • les in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?s?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lé?s/

Noun

l??s m inan

  1. wood

Inflection

Further reading

  • “les”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?les/, [?les]

Etymology 1

From Latin ill?s, dative plural of ille.

Pronoun

les

  1. dative of ellos and ellas; to them, for them
  2. dative of ustedes; to you all, for you all (formal)

See also

Etymology 2

Gender-neutral e replaces the gendered endings/elements a and o.

Article

les m pl or f pl

  1. (gender-neutral, neologism) the

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English lazy.

Adjective

les

  1. lazy
  2. tired, fed up

Verb

les

  1. be lazy
  2.  be tired, be fed up

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /le?s/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English lace.

Noun

les f (plural lesau, not mutable)

  1. lace (light fabric patterned with holes)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lease.

Noun

les f (plural lesoedd, not mutable)

  1. lease
Derived terms
  • lesddeiliad (“leaseholder”)

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “les”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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