li

Symbol

 * 1)  The symbol for the logarithmic integral function.

Etymology 1
An early romanization of. As a Korean unit, via the Yale romanization of, from the Chinese distance.

Noun

 * 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 393m.
 * 1) The Korean mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 393m.
 * 1) The Korean mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 393m.
 * 1) The Korean mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 393m.
 * 1) The Korean mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 393m.
 * 1) The Korean mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 393m.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

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

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A meaningful ceremony or ritual; etiquette, behaviour.

Etymology 4
From.

Noun

 * 1) An ancient Chinese cauldron having three hollow legs.

Etymology 5
Altered from, with the vowel changed to signify a raised note.

Noun

 * 1)  In solfège, the raised sixth note of a major scale (the note A-sharp in the fixed-do system).

Etymology 1
Orel suggests from, compare 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬. However, generally thought to be from "blessing", with a euphemistic sense development. Compare e.g. the euphemistic synonym "e lume" (the happy/blessed one)

Noun

 * 1) pox
 * 2) olive scab, peacock spot

Etymology 2
Borrowed through from.

Noun

 * 1) flax

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) him

Etymology
From, dative common plural of. Compare 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)  them (all-female group)

Related terms

 * (a) lor
 * (a) lor
 * (a) lor

Etymology
, dative common singular of.

Pronoun

 * 1) him, her, it (indirect object, singular all genders)

Etymology
From, masculine plural of , from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) him, her
 * 2) them

Noun

 * 1) li.

Etymology
From, , or , plus the i of personal pronouns.

Pronoun

 * 1)  he

Usage notes

 * Li is traditionally used as both a masculine and a gender-neutral pronoun, but since the 1970s generic usage has sometimes been criticized and is increasingly being avoided and replaced by "ĝi" and or "oni" and or "li aŭ ŝi". Some people (reformists) think this is an imperfect solution which is inappropriately long. In response to such criticisms, there have been various proposals for new pronouns, but the only proposal that has been gaining some adoption is.

Related terms

 * (plural)

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) li

Etymology 2
Probably from influence of.

Pronoun

 * 1)  him
 * 2)  it

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) here

Etymology 1
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) he
 * 2) him
 * 3) she
 * 4) her
 * 5) it

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1) to read

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) they, them

Etymology 1
From, nominative masculine plural of.

Pronunciation

 * As an unstressed clitic, it does not trigger of the following consonant. It also actively blocks syntactic gemination of its initial consonant, such as after a word like  that would normally trigger syntactic gemination. (This does not apply to the enclitic form, e.g. .)

Pronoun

 * 1)  them (masculine)

Usage notes

 * Never elides.

Etymology 2
Variant of.

Etymology
Cognate to 🇨🇬.

Determiner

 * 1) this, these

Pronoun

 * 1) this, these, this one, these ones

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) here

Etymology
From, from. Cognate to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) crossbow

Pronoun

 * 1) he
 * 2) him
 * 3) she
 * 4) her
 * 5) it

Etymology
From. Compare common dialectal 🇨🇬. The use as a conjunction is widely found in Maghrebi Arabic, so there is no reason to consider it a Romance influence (as might otherwise be thought; compare 🇨🇬, which is both a relative pronoun and the conjunction “that”).

Pronoun

 * 1)  who; which; that

Usage notes

 * Unlike standard Arabic, the relative pronoun is normally used also with indefinite referents (example sentence 2). However, it is optional in this case.

Conjunction

 * 1) that

Romanization




Etymology
From,.

Pronoun

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

Etymology
From.

Article

 * 1) the

Noun

 * 1) water

Noun

 * 1) woman

Etymology
from

Noun

 * 1) bed

Particle

 * 1) here, there, thus, so

Article

 * 1) the

Etymology
From, from , a Vulgar Latin dative of Classical.

Pronoun

 * 1)  him

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬, from earlier *ne < *en. Ultimately from.

Preposition

 * 1) in

Usage notes

 * In most cases, "li" refers to on rather than in. The more south it goes the more the sense becomes much more extensive; in 🇨🇬 encapsulating from, on, in, over, etc. as a whole. Around more Northern dialects, (li) ser ("on top") is used to mean on and in those regions "li" especially has the meaning of in, often times replacing di in "di ... de" ("in, inside"), compare.
 * "li" can be added pretty much before any preposition except di, ji, bi; as in li ber, li pêş, li dijî, li hember, etc., all of which can be used without the li.

Etymology
From.

Noun

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

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) a sloping mountainside or hillside covered with grass or forest.

Etymology 2
From, from. The sense of may be a loan from.

Verb

 * 1)  to pass, elapse
 * 2)  to suffer
 * 3)  to endure
 * 4)  to tolerate, like

Etymology 1
From. The use for the nominative singular is due to a Vulgar Latin alteration of under the influence of the pronoun. The same influence (through the dative ) also explains the Vulgar Latin forms mentioned in etymology 2 below. .

Article

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

Etymology 2
Either directly from, dative singular of , or from reduction of , , themselves from 🇨🇬. This depends on whether the innovative forms had replaced entirely in Gaul or whether they existed side by side with it. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) ; to him, to her, to it,

Etymology
From.

Article

 * 1) the masculine nominative singular and plural definite article

Etymology
. ..

Particle
particle


 * 1)  whether … or
 * 2) and; and also
 * 1)  whether … or
 * 2) and; and also
 * 1) and; and also
 * 1) and; and also
 * 1) and; and also
 * 1) and; and also
 * 1) and; and also
 * 1) and; and also
 * 1) and; and also
 * 1) and; and also

Conjunction
conjunction


 * 1)  ; if

Etymology 1
.

Particle

 * 1)  only
 * 1)  only
 * 1)  only

Conjunction

 * 1)  if
 * 2)  since, because
 * 3)  though
 * 4)  when
 * 5)  or
 * 1)  when
 * 2)  or
 * 1)  or
 * 1)  or

Etymology 2
.

Etymology 3
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) she

Pronoun

 * 1) to them

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

Etymology
From, masculine and feminine plural forms of.

Usage notes

 * Becomes before a vowel.

Etymology
.

Particle

 * (Croatian: "nemam pojma je li došao")
 * 1)  if
 * (when "li" is used in this sense, it is usually translated as a subjunctive form "should", and when "" is used, it is usually translated as "if" - ako me pokušaš napasti = if you try to attack me)
 * (Croatian: "nemam pojma je li došao")
 * 1)  if
 * (when "li" is used in this sense, it is usually translated as a subjunctive form "should", and when "" is used, it is usually translated as "if" - ako me pokušaš napasti = if you try to attack me)
 * (Croatian: "nemam pojma je li došao")
 * 1)  if
 * (when "li" is used in this sense, it is usually translated as a subjunctive form "should", and when "" is used, it is usually translated as "if" - ako me pokušaš napasti = if you try to attack me)
 * (Croatian: "nemam pojma je li došao")
 * 1)  if
 * (when "li" is used in this sense, it is usually translated as a subjunctive form "should", and when "" is used, it is usually translated as "if" - ako me pokušaš napasti = if you try to attack me)

Etymology 1
From the conflation of the apheresis of and, both nominative plurals of.

Article

 * 1)  the

Usage notes

 * This article is nowadays an obsolete variant, unlike its illiquid counterpart . It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
 * Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
 * Its use is however almost undisputed before nouns (or nominalized forms of other parts of speech, most often adjectives) that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic . Otherwise, illiquid definite articles are phonetically absorbed by the following noun. I.e: l'arancini (liquid) and ârancini (illiquid).

Etymology 2
From the conflation of the apheresis of and, both nominative plurals of.

Pronoun

 * 1)  them
 * 2)  them, these or those thing
 * 1)  them, these or those thing
 * 1)  them, these or those thing

Usage notes

 * This pronoun is now an obsolete variant. It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
 * Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
 * Its use is however almost undisputed before words that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic.

Etymology
From.

Numeral

 * 1) four

Etymology 1
. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to be, to exist
 * 2) to become
 * 1) to become
 * 1) to become
 * 1) to become

Usage notes

 * Since this is a defective verb, it does not have many conjugations, and the remaining conjugations needed are constructed using as an auxiliary verb. For example, the 1st person singular negative remote past of -li is.
 * This verb removes the augment of the noun after it (e.g., not *ndi emanzi "I am a courageous person").
 * The 3rd person singular present and 3rd person plural present forms are usually only used after a locative class or a place name. In other cases, the noun is almost always left augmentless (e.g. "he/she is a person").

Derived terms

 * -roho
 * -rumu
 * -liyo
 * -raha

Etymology 2
. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Determiner

 * 1) that, those distal demonstrative determiner

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) cup; glass

Noun

 * 1) a crease (a line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance)

Article

 * 1) the

Pronoun

 * 1) him, her, it

Adverb

 * 1) also

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 1) four