lilas
French
Alternative forms
- lilac (archaic)
Etymology
Frequently until the nineteenth century lilac, borrowed in the seventeenth from Arabic لِيلَك (līlak).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.la/, /li.lɑ/
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Descendants
Derived terms
- → Basque: lila
- → Breton: lireu
- → Catalan: lilà, lila
- → Corsican: lillà
- → Czech: lila
- → Danish: lilla
- → Dutch: lila
- → English: lilac
- → Cornish: laylok
- → Irish: líológ
- → Manx: laylac
- → Scottish Gaelic: liagh
- → Welsh: leloc
- → Friulian: lile
- → Galician: lila
- → German: Lila, lilafarben, lila
- → Low German: lila
- → Hungarian: lila
- → Icelandic: lila
- → Italian: lilà, lilla
- → Norwegian Bokmål: lilla
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: lilla
- → Occitan: lillà
- → Polish: lilak, lila
- → Portuguese: lilás
- → Romanian: lila
- → Spanish: lila, lilac
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovene: lȋla
- → Swedish: lila
- → Turkish: lila
- → Zazaki: lila
See also
blanc | gris | noir |
rouge; cramoisi, carmin | orange; brun, marron | jaune; crème |
lime | vert | menthe |
cyan, turquoise; bleu canard | azur, bleu ciel | bleu |
violet, lilas; indigo | magenta; pourpre | rose |
Further reading
- “lilas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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