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Lille
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lille lisle
English
Etymology
From en fr Lille (see there for more), from en fro l'Isle the Island, ultimately from en la īnsula island. Compare also en isle and en Lyle.
Pronunciation
en /lil/ GA, lēl
en En-us-Lille.ogg GA
en /liːl/ /lɪl/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Lille.wav Southern England
en leal li'l
en iːl ɪl 1
Proper noun
en Q648en capital dept/Nord and the r:also:suf/Hauts-de-France c/France.
en Q725235en town/and/municipality p:pref/Antwerp c/Belgium.
en comm town:pref/Grand Isle s/Maine c/USA, across the river from Canada. TopoZone: Lille, Maine
Derived terms
en Lille lace
Translations
city in France
Arabic: ar لِيل f
Hijazi Arabic: acw ليل f līl
Armenian: hy Լիլ
Belarusian: be Ліль m
Bulgarian: bg Лил m
Catalan: ca Lilla f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 里爾//里尔 Lǐ'ěr
Corsican: co Lilla f
Czech: cs Lille n
Dutch: nl Rijsel n
Esperanto: eo Lillo
Finnish: fi Lille
Franco-Provençal: frp Lila f
French: fr Lille f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Risel n, fy Lille n
Georgian: ka ლილი
German: de Lille n, obsolete de Ryssel n
Greek: el Λίλλη f, el Λιλ f
Hebrew: he ליל m Lil
Hindi: hi लील f
Italian: it Lilla f
Japanese: ja リール Rīru
Korean: ko ^릴
Latin: la Īnsula f
Limburgish: li
Lithuanian: lt Lilis m
Luxembourgish: lb Lille
Macedonian: mk Лил m
Marathi: mr लिल n
Occitan: oc Lilla f
Picard: pcd Lile f
Polish: pl Lille n
Portuguese: pt Lille f, pt Lila f
Romanian: ro Lille f
Russian: ru Лилль m
Spanish: es Lille f, historical es Lila f
Thai: th ลีล
Turkish: tr Lille
Ukrainian: uk Лілль m
Urdu: ur لیل m līl
West Flemish: vls Rysel n
References
French
fr:
Etymology
fr fro l'Isle the Island, from fr la Īnsula, from la īnsula island, whence also fr île. The name was en resegment resegmented (like its nl - counterpart nl Rijsel): in fro à l'Isle at the Isle, the definite article came to be considered part of the name, and it was thus interpreted as fr à Lille.
Pronunciation
Lile
fr il 1
fr Fr-Paris--Lille.ogg Paris
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-Lille.wav <<France>> (<<Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-Lille.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-Lille.wav <<France>> (<<Somain>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-Lille.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
Proper noun
f
fr Lille Q648
fr Bois-Blancs Faubourg de Béthune Fives Hellemmes-Lille Lille-Moulins Lomme Saint-Maurice Pellevoisin Vauban-Esquermes Wazemmes
Derived terms
fr lillois
fr Lillois m, fr Lilloise f
German
Etymology
de :bor fr:Lille
From de fr Lille.
Pronunciation
de /lɪl/ /liːl/
Proper noun
toponym
de city in <<c/France>> Lille
de obsolete Ryssel
Derived terms
de Liller