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Lilith
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lilith
English
Etymology
Borrowed from en he לִילִית lîlîṯ.
Pronunciation
en /ˈlɪlɪθ/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Lilith.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en mythology A Mesopotamian storm demon, a bearer of disease and death.
en Judaism The first wife of Adam in Jewish folklore.
240 Body's Beauty Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told / (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) / That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, / And her enchanted hair was the first gold.
en astrology The "dark moon" or "black moon", a fictitious invisible second moon of Earth proposed by astrologers in the early 20th century. Now often interpreted as the position of the apogee of the actual Moon, or as the empty focus of the Moon's elliptical orbit (Earth occupying the other focus).
en female Hebrew.
Derived terms
en Lilithian
Translations
mythological demon
Arabic: ar لِيلِيث f
Armenian: hy Լիլիթ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 莉莉斯 Lìlìsī, cmn 莉莉絲
Danish: da Lilith, da Lilit
French: fr Lilith f
Georgian: ka ლილითი
German: de Lilith f
Greek: el Λίλιθ f
Hebrew: he לִילִית f lilít
Hindi: hi लीलीत f
Icelandic: is Lilith
Japanese: ja リリス Ririsu
Kazakh: kk Лилит
Khmer: km លីលីត
Korean: ko ^릴리트
Kyrgyz: ky Лилит
Latin: la Līlīth f
Latvian: lv Lilita
Marathi: mr लिलिथ f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Lilit
Nynorsk: nn Lilit
Persian: fa لیلیت lilit
Polish: pl Lilith f, pl Lilit f
Russian: ru Лили́т
Swedish: sv Lilit
fictitious invisible second moon
French: fr Lilith f
female given name
Armenian: hy Լիլիթ
German: de Lilith f
Hebrew: he לִילִית f lilít
Hindi: hi लिलिथ f
Latvian: lv Lilita
See also
mul ⚸
References
Further reading
Lilith (disambiguation)
Polish
pl:
thumb|Lilith
Alternative forms
pl Lilit
Etymology
pl :lbor he:לִילִית + 1
Pronunciation
lilit Li.lith
Proper noun
f 1
pl Bible Judaism en Lilith first wife of Adam and demon in Jewish folklore
Further reading
pl Individuals Mythological creatures