(mathematics) The symbol for the logarithmic integral function.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /liː/
Rhymes: -iː
Etymology 1
An early romanization of ChineseMandarin里(lǐ). As a Korean unit, via the Yale romanization of Korean리(ri), from the Chinese distance.
Alternative forms
(Korea):ri
Noun
li (plurallisorli)
The Chinese mile, a traditional unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).
Synonym:Chinese mile
The Korean mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.
Synonym:Korean mile
Translations
Etymology 2
From Mandarin市厘(lí).
Noun
li (pluralli)
A traditional Chinese unit of weight, equal to one-thousandth of a liang, or fifty milligrams.
Etymology 3
From Mandarin禮(lǐ).
Noun
li (pluralli)
(Chinese philosophy) A meaningful ceremony or ritual; etiquette, behaviour.
Etymology 4
From Mandarin鬲(lì).
Noun
li (pluralli)
An ancient Chinese cauldron having three hollow legs.
Etymology 5
Altered from la, with the vowel changed to signify a raised note.
Noun
li (uncountable)
(music) In solfège, the raised sixth note of a major scale (the note A-sharp in the fixed-do system).
Synonyms:A-sharp, B-flat, ta, te
Anagrams
I'l, IL, il-
Albanian
Etymology 1
Orel suggests from South Slavic, compare Serbo-Croatianlȉh(“exclusive”), lȋh(“false, odd”), Slovenelȋh(“uneven, odd”). However, generally thought to be from Ancient Greekεὐλογία(eulogía) "blessing", with a euphemistic sense development. Compare e.g. the euphemistic synonym "e lume" (the happy/blessed one)
Alternative forms
lijë
Noun
lif (definite singularlia)
pox
olive scab, peacock spot (Cycloconium oleaginum)
Synonym:sypallua
Derived terms
Hyponyms
References
Etymology 2
Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latinlīnum.
Noun
lim (definite singularliri)
flax
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latinille(“that one”).
Pronoun
li
him (indirect object)
Synonyms
le
Aromanian
Etymology
From Latinillis, dative common plural of ille. Compare Romanianle.
From Latinilli, masculine plural of ille, from Old Latinolle. Cognates include Italiangli(“the, them”) and Romanianîi(“them”).
Pronoun
li
him, her (indirect object)
them (indirect object)
Archaic form of i.
See also
Article
li
Archaic form of i.
References
https://infcor.adecec.net/
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
lim (uncountable)
li (Chinese unit of distance).
Esperanto
Etymology
From Italianlui, Frenchlui, or Spanishle, plus the i of personal pronouns.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /li/
Hyphenation: li
Audio:
Pronoun
li (accusativelin, possessivelia)
(personal pronoun) 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 "li aŭ ŝi". Some people think this is an imperfect solution which is inappropriately long, and since the 2010s it is additionally also criticized by some as being too exclusive to non-binary people. In response to such criticisms, there have been various proposals for new pronouns, but the only proposal that has been gaining some adoption is ri.
Synonyms
(person whose gender is unknown):ri, ŝli
Related terms
ili(“they”) (plural)
French
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /li/
Noun
lim (plurallis)
li (Chinese unit of distance).
Further reading
“li” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
il
Guinea-Bissau Creole
Etymology
From Portugueseali. Cognate with Kabuverdianuli.
Adverb
li
here
Haitian Creole
Etymology 1
From Frenchlui.
Pronoun
li (contracted forml)
he
him
she
her
it
Etymology 2
From Frenchlire.
Verb
li
to read
Ido
Etymology
From lu(“he, him, she, her, it, that”) + -i(“-s; plural”).
Pronoun
lipl
they, them
Related terms
ili(“they, them”, masculine)
eli(“they, them”, feminine)
oli(“they, them”, neuter)
Istriot
Article
li
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
Italian
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /li/, [l̺i]
Homophone: lì
Etymology 1
From Latinillī, nominative masculine plural of ille.
Alternative forms
-li (enclitic)
Pronoun
lim pl (femalele, singularlo)
(accusative) them
Usage notes
Never elides.
See also
Etymology 2
Variant of gli.
Article
lim pl (singularlo)
Archaic form of gli.
Pronoun
lim pl (singularlo)
(dative)Archaic form of gli.
Etymology 3
Adverb
li
Misspelling of lì.
Anagrams
il
Japanese
Romanization
li
Rōmaji transcription of り゚
Rōmaji transcription of リ゚
Jarawa
Etymology
Cognate to Öngeli.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /li/
Determiner
li
this, these
Synonym:lijə(“this here, this”)
Coordinate term:luwə(“that”)
Pronoun
li
this, these, this one, these ones
Coordinate term:luwə(“that”)
References
Kumar, Pramod (2012). Descriptive and Typological Study of Jarawa (PhD). Jawaharlal Nehru University. Page 85, 101—102.
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portugueseali.
Adverb
li
here
Khumi Chin
Etymology
From Proto-Kuki-Chin*lii, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan*d-liy. Cognate to Burmeseလေး(le:, “bow”) and S'gaw Karenချံၣ်(khleè, “bow”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /li˥/
Noun
li
crossbow
References
K. E. Herr, The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin[1], Payap University, 2011, page 45
Livonian
Verb
li
2nd person singular imperative form oflǟdõ
Louisiana Creole French
Etymology
From Frenchlui.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /li/
Pronoun
li (third-person singular, pluralyé, objectiveli, possessivesô, emphaticli-chin)
he.
him.
she.
her.
Coordinate terms
mo
to
nou, no, nouzòt
vouzòt, ouzòt, zòt, zo
yé
Maltese
Alternative forms
illi (after a word-final consonant cluster)
Etymology
From Arabicاَلَّذِي (allaḏī, relative pronoun). Compare common dialectal Arabicاللي (illi, lli). 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 Italianche, which is both a relative pronoun and the conjunction “that”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /li/
Pronoun
li
(relative) 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
li
that
Mandarin
Romanization
li (Zhuyin˙ㄌㄧ)
Pinyin transcription of 哩
Pinyin transcription of 裏
Pinyin transcription of 裡
Pinyin transcription of 里
li
Nonstandard spelling of lī.
Nonstandard spelling of lí.
Nonstandard spelling of lǐ.
Nonstandard spelling of lì.
Usage notes
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.
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From Frenchle, lui
Pronoun
li
he, she, it (third-person singular personal pronoun)
See also
Michif
Etymology
From Frenchle.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [lɪ]
Article
lim (femininela, masculine and feminine plurallii)
the
Miskito
Noun
li
water
References
Eduard Conzemius, Ethnographical Survey of the Miskito and Sumu Indians (1932)
Munsee
Particle
lí
here, there, thus, so
References
Neapolitan
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /i/
Pronoun
li
Alternative form of 'i
Niuatoputapu
Article
li
the
Norman
Etymology
From Old Frenchli, from Vulgar Latin*illui, a Vulgar Latin dative of Classical Latinille.
Pronoun
li
(Guernsey) him
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European*en.
Pronunciation
Rhymes: -ɪ
Preposition
li
in
an element of several prepositions and circumpositions
Related terms
li ... de
li cem
li ber
li dijî
li dora
li gora
li pey
li pêş
li rex
li ser
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norsehlíð
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /liː/
Noun
lif or m (definite singularliaorlien, indefinite plurallier, definite pluralliene)
A sloping mountainside or hillside covered with grass or forest.
References
“li” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams
il
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /liː/
Etymology 1
From Old Norsehlíð, from Proto-Germanic*hlīdō, from Proto-Indo-European*ḱléyteh₂(“something leaned, inclined”).
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)
See also
vi
ni
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic*li.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /li/
Particle
li (Cyrillic spellingли)
question-forming interrogative particle (postpositive, unlike other particles, never first word in a sentence)
used as conjunction with da (except in Croatian, je li is used instead)
(Croatian: "nemam pojma je li došao")
(as a conjunction) if
(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)
used as an emphatic intensifier
See also
zar(interrogative particle)
Sicilian
Etymology
From Latinillī or illae, nominative plurals of ille.
Article
lim pl or f pl
(definite) the
See also
Vietnamese
Alternative forms
ly
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 璃(“glass”).
Pronunciation
(Hà Nội) IPA(key): [li˧˧]
(Huế) IPA(key): [lɪj˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [lɪj˧˧]
Noun
(classifiercái) li
cup, glass (def. 2)
See also
Volapük
Particle
li
Appended with a hyphen to a verb, it turns the entire clause it is in into a question.
Walloon
Article
li (after an open syllable and/or before a vowel:l', plural:les, plural after an open syllable and before a vowel:ls)
the
Pronoun
li
him, her, it (direct object, before verb)
Westrobothnian
Etymology 1
Noun
lif
Alternative form of lid
Etymology 2
From Old Norselé, specifically the accusative léa, from Proto-Germanic*lewô. The duosyllabic accent might be derived from the definite singular form.
Pronunciation
(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
Noun
lîm (definite singularlien)
scythe
Derived terms
libɑka(“the trailing edge of a scythe”)
liörv(“shaft on a scythe”)
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
lin (definite singularliä)
afterbirth from calving
Synonyms:ättföring, leg
Etymology 4
From Old Norselíða, from Proto-Germanic*līþaną. The sense “suffer” may be borrowed from Middle Low German, but derive from the same root in any case.
Verb
li
to elapse.
to come to an end, run out.
to suffer.
References
Yoruba
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /lí/
Noun
lí
The name of the Latin-script letter L.
See also
(Latin-script letter names)lẹ́tà; á, bí, dí, é, ẹ́, fí, gí, gbì, hí, í, jí, kí, lí, mí, ní, ó, ọ́, pí, rí, sí, ṣí, tí, ú, wí, yí
Zou
Etymology
From Proto-Kuki-Chin*lii, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan*b-ləj. Cognates include Burmeseလေး(le:) and Sichuan Yiꇖ(ly).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /li˧/
Numeral
li
four
References
Lukram Himmat Singh, A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, 2013, page 40