lil

English Online Dictionary. What means lil‎? What does lil mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl
• Homophone: Lil

Etymology 1

Adjective

lil

1. Alternative form of li'l

Etymology 2

Noun

lil (plural lils)

1. (gypsy slang, obsolete) A book.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• ill, Ill., ILL, 'ill, I'll

Aleut

Pronunciation

• (Western) IPA^(key): /ˈlil/

Verb

lil

1. to look like, appear

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪl]

Participle

lil

1. masculine singular past active participle of lít

Irish

Noun

lil f (genitive singular lile, nominative plural lile)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of lile (“lily”)

Declension

Lushootseed

Adjective

lil

1. far

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic لِ (li). The final -l may be due to backformation from the personal forms, themselves derived by reduplication. Compare Moroccan Arabic ليل (līl, “for”), North Levantine Arabic لإلي (laʔilli, “to me”), لإلك (laʔillak, “to you”), etc., reduplicated personal forms of ل (la). And compare a similar backformation from the personal forms in Maltese lejn.

Preposition

lil

1. to, with

   Synonym: għand

Inflection

Derived terms

Volapük

Noun

lil (nominative plural lils)

1. ear

Declension

Derived terms

• lilön