lip

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”).

Cognate with West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Norwegian leppe (“lip”), Danish læbe (“lip”), Latin labium (“lip”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: lĭp, IPA^(key): /lɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Noun

lip (countable and uncountable, plural lips)

2. (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.

   Synonym: labium
3. (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.

   Synonym: labium
4. (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.

   Synonyms: edge, rim, spout
5. (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.

   Synonyms: backchat, cheek (informal), impudence, rudeness, insolence
6. The edge of a high spot of land.
7. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
8. (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
9. (botany) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
10. (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
11. (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
12. (colloquial) Short for lipstick.

Meronyms

• (fleshy protrusion): philtrum, Cupid's bow, vermilion, commissure

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lip (third-person singular simple present lips, present participle lipping, simple past and past participle lipped)

1. (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
2. (transitive, figurative) (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
3. (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
4. (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
5. (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
   • 1920, W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Chapter 9, p. 242,^[11]

     It was a tiny stone house whose front window lipped the passing sidewalk where ever tramped the feet of black soldiers marching home.
6. (transitive) To utter verbally.
7. (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
8. (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
9. (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.

Translations

Anagrams

• LPI, PIL

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lip, from Middle Dutch leppe, with influence of Middle Low German lippe, from Old Dutch leppa, from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləp/

Noun

lip (plural lippe, diminutive lippie)

1. lip (part of the mouth)

   Die slang het in my lip gebyt! ― The snake has bitten me in my lip!

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪp]

Noun

lip

1. genitive plural of lípa

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch leppe, with influence of Middle Low German lippe, from Old Dutch leppa, from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪp/
• Hyphenation: lip
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Noun

lip f (plural lippen, diminutive lipje n)

1. lip (part of the mouth)

   Ze likte haar lippen na het eten van het heerlijke dessert. ― She licked her lips after eating the delicious dessert.

   De zoen op haar lippen bracht een glimlach op haar gezicht. ― The kiss on her lips brought a smile to her face.

2. lip (of a container)

   De fles had een speciale rubberen lip om morsen te voorkomen. ― The bottle had a special rubber lip to prevent spills.

   Het blikje had een metalen lipje waarmee je het gemakkelijk kon openen. ― The can had a metal tab that made it easy to open.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: lip
• Negerhollands: lip, lepp
• → Papiamentu: lep, lip, leep

Anagrams

• pil

Gallo

Etymology

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

Noun

lip ? (plural lips)

1. lip

Hokkien

Lower Sorbian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *lě̑pъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lip/, [lʲip]

Noun

lip m inan (diminutive lipk)

1. glue, birdlime

Declension

Derived terms

• lipaś

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lip

1. second-person singular imperative of lipaś

Alternative forms

• lipaj

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “lip”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “lip”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlip/
• Rhymes: -ip
• Syllabification: lip

Noun

lip f

1. genitive plural of lipa

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• lȇp (Ekavian)
• lijȇp (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěpъ.

Adjective

lip (Cyrillic spelling лип)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) nice, pretty
   • 1375, N.N., Muka svete Margarite (transribed from Glagolitic original):

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English leaf.

Noun

lip

1. leaf