li

• IPA^(key): /liː/
• Rhymes: -iː

An early romanization of Chinese Mandarin 里 (lǐ). As a Korean unit, via the Yale romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from the Chinese distance.

• (Korea): ri

li (plural lis or li)

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 393 m.

• (China): Chinese mile
• (Korea): Korean mile

From Mandarin 市厘 (lí).

li (plural li)

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

From Mandarin 禮 (lǐ).

li (plural li)

1. (Chinese philosophy) A meaningful ceremony or ritual; etiquette, behaviour.

From Mandarin 鬲 (lì).

li (plural li)

1. An ancient Chinese cauldron having three hollow legs.

li

1. (mathematics) Logarithmic integral function

Altered from la. vowel changed to 'e' to signify a raised note.

li (uncountable)

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

• A-sharp
• B-flat
• ta
• te

• I'l, IL, il-

li f

1. smallpox

From Latin līnum.

li m

1. flax

From Latin illis, dative common plural of ille. Compare Romanian le.

li f (short/unstressed accusative form of eali)

1. (direct object) them (all-female group)

• lã (feminine/masculine plural dative- short/unstressed form)
• u (feminine singular accusative- short/unstressed form)
• (a) lor (feminine/masculine plural dative- long/stressed form)

From Latin illī, dative common singular of ille.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈli/
• Rhymes: -i

li (enclitic and proclitic)

1. him, her, it (indirect object)

• Audio

  (file)

li m (uncountable)

1. li (Chinese unit of distance).

From Italian lui, French lui, or Spanish le, plus the i of personal pronouns.

• Audio

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /li/
• Hyphenation: li

li (accusative lin, possessive lia)

1. (personal pronoun) he

• ŝli

• ili (“they”)

• IPA^(key): /li/

li m (plural lis)

1. li (Chinese unit of distance).

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

• il

From Portuguese ali. Cognates with Kabuverdianu li.

li

1. here

From French lui.

li

1. he
2. him
3. she
4. her
5. it

From French lire.

li

1.  To read

lu (“he, him, she, her, it, that”) +‎ -i (“-s; plural”)

li pl

1. they, them

• ili (“they, them”) (masculine)
• eli (“they, them”) (feminine)
• oli (“they, them”) (neuter)

li

1. the

li

1. masculine plural definite article
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:

     Ti me pari oûna dea infra li dai,

     You seem to me a goddess among the gods,

• IPA^(key): /li/, [l̺i]
• Homophone: lì

From Latin illī, nominative masculine plural of ille.

• -li (enclitic)

li m pl (female le, singular lo)

1. (accusative) them

   Li ricordo. ― I remember them.

Never elides.

Variant of gli.

li m pl (singular lo)

1. Archaic form of gli.

   li studenti ― the students

li m pl (singular lo)

1. (dative) Archaic form of gli.

li

1. Misspelling of lì.

• il

From Portuguese ali.

li

1. here

li

1. in

   li Kurdistanê (in Kurdistan)

2. li ser: on:
   li ser maseyê (on the table)

li

1. 2nd person singular imperative form of lǟdõ

From French lui.

li

1. he
2. him
3. she
4. her

• IPA^(key): /li/

li

1. (relative) who; that

   ir-raġel li seraq il-karozza

   the man who stole the car

li (Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄧ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 哩
2. Pinyin transcription of 裏
3. Pinyin transcription of 裡
4. Pinyin transcription of 里

li

1. Nonstandard spelling of lī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of lí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of lǐ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of lì.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From French le, lui

li

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

From French le.

• IPA^(key): [lɪ]

li m (feminine la, masculine and feminine plural lii)

1. the

li

1. water

• Eduard Conzemius, Ethnographical Survey of the Miskito and Sumu Indians (1932)

• IPA^(key): /i/

li

1. Alternative form of 'i

li

1. the

From Old French li, from Vulgar Latin *illui, a Vulgar Latin dative of Classical Latin ille.

li

1. (Guernsey) him

From Old Norse hlíð

• IPA^(key): /liː/

li f or m (definite singular lia or lien, indefinite plural lier, definite plural liene)

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

• “li” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse hlíð

• IPA^(key): /liː/

li f (definite singular lia, indefinite plural lier, definite plural liene)

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

• “li” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

li

1. the

From Latin ille (“that”).

• IPA^(key): /li/

li

1. the (masculine nominative singular and plural definite article)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Li rois respont: "N'est pas mançonge"

     The king replied "this is no lie"

li

1. third-person singular indirect object pronoun; to him, to her, to it
   • circa 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, 'Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette':

     Si li ancomancent a dire

     He started to tell him

• French: lui

From Latin ille (“that”).

li

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

li (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) only

From Mandarin 里 (lǐ)

li n (indeclinable)

1. li, Chinese unit of distance
2. li, Chinese unit of weight

From Mandarin 禮／礼 (lǐ)

li n (indeclinable)

1. li, a meaningful ceremony or ritual

• li in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -i

li

1. First-person singular (eu) preterite indicative of ler

li (dative form of ele; form of le)

1. to them

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

• îl (the accusative of el, contracted as li-l)
• îi (the accusative of ei, contracted as li-i)
• le (the accusative of ele)
• se (the reflexive accusative of all third-person pronouns)

• vi
• ni

From Proto-Slavic *li.

• IPA^(key): /li/

li (Cyrillic spelling ли)

1. question-forming interrogative particle (postpositive, unlike other particles, never first word in a sentence)

   poznaješ li me — do you know me?

   jesi li stigao na odredište? — did you reach the destination?

   jeste li ga vid(j)eli — have you seen him?

   gd(j)e li se samo nalazimo? — where could we be?

   kad li će doći? — when will he/they come?

   je li? — Is it? (Is that so? Isn't that so?)

2. used as conjunction with da (except in Croatian, "je li" is used instead)

   da li — whether

   nemam pojma da li je došao — I have no idea whether he came (Croatian: "nemam pojma je li došao")

3. (as a conjunction) if

   pokušaš li me napasti, ja ću ti uzvratiti — should you try to attack me, I'll strike you back (when "li" is used in this sense, it is usually translated as a subjunctive form "should", and when "ako" is used, it is usually translated as "if" - ako me pokušaš napasti = if you try to attack me)

4. used as an emphatic intensifier

   a sn(ij)eg pada li pada — the snow just keeps falling and falling...

   d(ij)ete plače li plače — the child just keeps crying and crying...

• zar (interrogative particle)

From Latin illī or illae, nominative plurals of ille.

li m pl or f pl

1. (definite) the

• ly

Sino-Vietnamese word from 璃 (“glass”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [li˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lɪj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [lɪj˧˧]

(classifier cái) li

1. cup, glass (def. 2)

• chén
• cốc
• tách

li

1. Appended with a hyphen to a verb, it turns the entire clause it is in into a question.

li (after an open syllabe and/or before a vowel : l', plural : les, plural after an open syllabe and before a vowel: ls)

1. the

   Li mwaisse

   The master

   Li maistrece

   The mistress

   L' ome

   The man

   C' est li l' mwaisse

   He is the master

   Les måjhons

   The houses

   Les omes

   The men

   Çou sont ls åtes tchesteas

   These are the other castles

li

1. him, her, it (direct object, before verb)

   C' est li l' mwaisse

   It's him who's the master

li f

1. Alternative form of lid[1]

From Old Norse lé, specifically the accusative léa, from Proto-Germanic *lewô. The duosyllabic accent might be derived from the definite singular form.

• (Hössjö) IPA^(key): [lìː]
• (Skellefteå) IPA^(key): [lèɪ̯ːj]
• (Luleå) IPA^(key): [lø̀ʏ̯ː]
• (Kalix) IPA^(key): [lɛ̀ɪ̯ː]

  Rhymes: -ìː

  (ð-dropping) Rhymes: -ìː, -ìːð

  (northern í-ý merger) Rhymes: -ìː, -ỳː

lî m (definite singular lien)

1. scythe[1]

• libɑka (“the trailing edge of a scythe”)
• liörv (“shaft on a scythe”)

li n (definite singular liä)

1. afterbirth from calving[2]

• ättföring f
• leg n

From Old Norse líða, from Proto-Germanic *līþaną. The sense “suffer” may be borrowed from Middle Low German, but derive from the same root in any case.

li

1. To elapse.[1]

   he li på dɑgen

   The day draws to a close.

   he var brɑno lide på

   It was quite late.

2. To come to an end, run out.

   Da mâtn fâr lii fara ṣwiṇa strii.

   When the food begins to run low, the swine begin to fight. (proverb)

3. To suffer.[1]