Lille

See also: lille and lisle

English

Etymology

From French Lille (see there for more), from Old French l'Isle (“the Island”), ultimately from Latin īnsula (“island”). Compare also isle and Lyle.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /lil/, enPR: lēl
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /liːl/, /lɪl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophones: leal, li'l
• Rhymes: -iːl, -ɪl

Proper noun

Lille

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Lille

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2. The capital of Nord department and the Hauts-de-France region, France.
4. A town and municipality of the province of Antwerp, Belgium.

Derived terms

• Lille lace

Translations

city in France

Arabic: لِيل (ar) f (līl) Hijazi Arabic: ليل f (līl) Armenian: Լիլ (hy) (Lil) Belarusian: Ліль m (Lilʹ) Bulgarian: Лил m (Lil) Catalan: Lilla f Chinese: Mandarin: 里爾 / 里尔 (Lǐ'ěr) Corsican: Lilla f Czech: Lille (cs) n Dutch: Rijsel (nl) n Esperanto: Lillo Finnish: Lille (fi) Franco-Provençal: Lila f French: Lille (fr) f Georgian: ლილი (lili) German: Lille n, (obsolete) Ryssel n Greek: Λίλλη (el) f (Lílli), Λιλ (el) f (Lil) Hebrew: ליל (he) m (Lil) Hindi: लील (hi) f (līl) Italian: Lilla (it) f Japanese: リール (ja) (Rīru) Korean: 릴 (Ril) Latin: Īnsula (la) f Limburgish: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: Lilis m Luxembourgish: Lille (lb) Macedonian: Лил m (Lil) Marathi: लिल n (lil) Occitan: Lilla (oc) f Picard: Lile f Polish: Lille (pl) n Portuguese: Lille f, Lila f Romanian: Lille (ro) f Russian: Лилль (ru) m (Lillʹ) Spanish: Lille (es) f, (historical) Lila (es) f Thai: ลีล (liil) Turkish: Lille Ukrainian: Лілль m (Lillʹ) Urdu: لیل m (līl) West Flemish: Rysel n West Frisian: Risel n, Lille n

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Lille

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Etymology

Inherited from Old French l'Isle (“the Island”), from Latin Īnsula, from īnsula (“island”), whence also île. The name was resegmented (like its Dutch counterpart Rijsel): in à l'Isle (“at the Isle”), the definite article came to be considered part of the name, and it was thus interpreted as à Lille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lil/
• Rhymes: -il

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Proper noun

Lille f

1. Lille (the capital of Nord department and the Hauts-de-France region, France)

   Meronyms: Bois-Blancs, Faubourg de Béthune, Fives, Hellemmes-Lille, Lille-Moulins, Lomme, Saint-Maurice Pellevoisin, Vauban-Esquermes, Wazemmes

Derived terms

• lillois
• Lillois m, Lilloise f

German

Etymology

From French Lille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪl/, /liːl/

Proper noun

Lille n (proper noun, genitive Lilles or (optionally with an article) Lille)

1. Lille (city in France)

   Synonym: (obsolete) Ryssel

Derived terms

• Liller