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English

Alternative forms

• les

Etymology

Clipping of lesbian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?z/
• Rhymes: -?z

Noun

lez (plural lezzes)

1. (slang, sometimes vulgar) Lesbian.

Derived terms

• lez out

Anagrams

• zel

Albanian

Alternative forms

• leze, lezë
• lemzë

Etymology

From fuller and dialectal lemzë, diminutive in -zë ~ ëz of dialectal lem (“birth; rise”), deverbative of lej (“to give birth”); the original meaning would have been ‘birthmark’.

Noun

lez m (indefinite plural lezë, definite singular lezi, definite plural lezët)

1. facial mole
2. (medicine) wart
3. (medicine) tumor
4. (dialectal) mark, spot, pimple, birthmark

Synonyms

• (wart, mole): lyth, yll
• (tumor): iriq

References

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?s/
• Homophone: les
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

lez

1. second-person singular imperative of lézt

French

Alternative forms

• lès

Etymology

From Old French lez, from Late Latin latus (“next to, beside”), from Latin l?tus (“side”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le/

Preposition

lez

1. (obsolete) next to, near (still used in some place names)

   Saint-André-lez-Lille est une ville proche de Lille.

   Saint-André-lez-Lille is a town near Lille.

Further reading

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• les, lés

Etymology

From Latin l?tus.

Noun

lez m (oblique plural lez, nominative singular lez, nominative plural lez)

1. side

Synonyms

• costé

Derived terms

• delez

Descendants

• French: lès, lez

English

Etymology

Short for Lepidoptera.

Noun

lep (plural leps)

1. A butterfly or moth.

Anagrams

• 'elp, -ple, EPL, LPE, pel

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *läpp? (“roof, cover”). Cognate with Udmurt ?????? (lipyny, “covering, roof”) and Lule Sami liehpa/liehppa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?p]
• Rhymes: -?p

Verb

lep

1. (literary or archaic) to cover

   Synonyms: borít, fed, takar

Usage notes

This form normally occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:

• lep (…) be, be … lep ? belep
• lep (…) el, el … lep ? ellep
• lep (…) meg, meg … lep ? meglep

Conjugation

Derived terms

• lepel

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• lep 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

Luo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??p/

Noun

lep

1. tongue

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lep

1. (non-standard since 1938) present tense of lepja
2. (non-standard since 1938) imperative of lepja

Anagrams

• pel

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l??p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?p/

Noun

lep m inan

1. flypaper (“a strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it”)

Declension

Related terms

• (adjectives) lepki, lepowy
• (noun) lepiszcze
• (verb) lepi?

Noun

lep f

1. genitive plural of lepa

Verb

lep

1. second-person singular imperative of lepi?

Further reading

• lep in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• lep in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): lij?p
• (Ikavian): lip

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lê?p/

Adjective

l?p (definite l?p?, comparative l?pš?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. nice, pretty

Declension

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *l?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lé?p/

Adjective

l??p (comparative l??pši, superlative n?jl??pši)

1. beautiful; handsome

   Antonym: g?d

2. nice

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• lepóten
• lepóta
• lepótec / lepotíca
• l??pšati

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lé?p/

Noun

l??p m inan

1. (archaic) glue

   Synonym: lepílo

Inflection

Further reading

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

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish leppä.

Noun

lep

1. alder

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lep]

Noun

lep (nominative plural leps)

1. (male or female) ape
2. (male or female) monkey

Declension

Derived terms

• lepik

Related terms

• lif
• lifav
• sügaf
• süganim
• süganimav
• nim
• nimav