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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Romanian leu (“lion”), from Latin le? (“lion”). Doublet of Leo, lev, lion, and Lyon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?.u?/

Noun

leu (plural lei)

1. The unit of currency of Romania, equal to one hundred bani.
2. The unit of currency of Moldova, equal to one hundred bani.

Translations

Anagrams

• -ule, Elu, Lue, lue, ule

Bourguignon

Alternative forms

• lei

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. (Morvan) place

Catalan

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. leu (currency of Romania)
2. leu (currency of Moldova)

Further reading

• “leu” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “leu” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “leu” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Finnish

Noun

leu

1. leu (unit of currency of Romania and Moldova)

Declension

Synonyms

• lei

Anagrams

• lue

French

Etymology

From Romanian leu (“lion”). Doublet of lion.

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. leu (currency of Romania)

Further reading

• “leu” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• élu, lue

Galician

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. leu

Verb

leu

1. Third-person singular (el, ela, vostede^?) preterite indicative of ler

Middle French

Verb

leu

1. past participle of lire

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin lupus.

Alternative forms

• lou, lu

Noun

leu m (oblique plural leus, nominative singular leus, nominative plural leu)

1. wolf (animal)

Descendants

• French: loup
• French: à la queue leu leu

Etymology 2

From Latin locus.

Noun

leu m (oblique plural leus, nominative singular leus, nominative plural leu)

1. place

Synonyms

• endroit

Derived terms

• Middle French: lieu
  • French: lieu

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?eu?/

Pronoun

leu

1. third-person plural accusative of la
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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish lejos and French loin .

Adjective

leu

1. far

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?lew/

Etymology 1

Verb

leu

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) preterite indicative of ler

Etymology 2

From Romanian leu (“leu; lion”).

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. leu (currency unit of Romania and Moldova)

Romanian

Alternative forms

• ??? (post-1930s (Moldovan) Cyrillic spelling)

Etymology

Probably a later learned borrowing from Latin le? (“lion”) (around the 17th century), itself from Ancient Greek ???? (lé?n). If inherited from the nominative form, the expected result in Romanian would have been *ieu (as iepure from leporem); furthermore, all the other Romance cognates were derived from the accusative form le?nem or genitive le?nis (and some were borrowings themselves). Cf. also l?un and L?une(le) (“a river in Romania”), as well as leoaie.

For the name of the currency, it was probably based on the Dutch leeuwendaalder (“lion thaler/dollar”), which depicted a lion; cf. daalder, also German löwenthaler. This traces back to the 17th century, when the Dutch currency was used in the Romanian principalities. Another explanation gives the origin of this sense as a calque of Turkish arslan (“lion”), which was also used to refer to a type of currency with a lion on it; see also piastru (English piastre). Compare also the sense of currency with Bulgarian ??? (lev).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lew/

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. lion
2. leu (the Romanian unit of currency)

Declension

Quotations

Derived terms

• leoaic?
• leoaie

References

Slovak

Etymology

From Romanian leu (“lion”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?u?/
• Homophone: lev

Noun

leu m (nominative plural lei)

1. leu (currency of Romania)

Usage notes

This noun can also be undeclined.

Further reading

• leu in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Noun

leu m (plural lei)

1. leu

Walloon

Alternative forms

• leû

Etymology

From Old French leu, from Latin lupus.

Noun

leu m (plural leus)

1. wolf

References

• “Leu” in Laurent Remacle, Dictionnaire wallon-français (1852).
• “Leu” in Joseph Hubert, Dictionnaire wallon-liégeois et français (1853).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: lea, Lea, Lee, leigh, Leigh, li, Li, Lie

Etymology 1

From Middle English lee, from Old English hl?o, hl?ow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz (compare German Lee (“lee”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *?ley- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin cal?re (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit ???? (?arad, “autumn”)).

Noun

lee (plural lees)

1. (sailing) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
2. (sailing) The side of the ship away from the wind.
3. A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.

   the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship

   • We lurked under lee.

   • 1873, John Tyndall, "Niagara", in Fragments of Science (1907), page 182

     Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.

   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:^[1]

     He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one.

Antonyms

• (geology) stoss
• (nautical) weather, windward

Derived terms

• alee
• leeward
• leeway

Translations

Adjective

lee (not comparable)

1. (sailing, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.

   lee side, lee shore, lee helm

Etymology 2

Noun

lee (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Lees; dregs.

Further reading

• Lee in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• lee at OneLook Dictionary Search
• lee in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ELE, eel

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?/

Noun

lée f 

1. water

References

• Tomoyuki Yabe, The Morphosyntax of Complex Verbal Expressions in the Horn of Africa (2007), which cites Hayward (1976) as the source of a usex lee fax-te "the water boiled"
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 99
• Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar?^[3], Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington (doctoral thesis)., page 5

Belizean Creole

Adjective

lee

1. little

References

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 212.

Finnish

Etymology

< Swedish lä (“lee”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?/, [?le??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: lee

Noun

lee

1. (nautical) lee (side of the ship away from the wind)
2. (nautical) lee (place protected from the wind by some object)

Declension

Synonyms

• (side of ship): suojanpuoli

Derived terms

• leenpuoleinen

Anagrams

• ele

Luxembourgish

Verb

lee

1. second-person singular imperative of leeën

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English l?ogan

Verb

lee

1. To lie; to speak falsely.

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Northern Sotho

Noun

lee

1. egg

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ledd.

Verb

lee (present tense leer, past tense lea or leet, past participle lea or leet)

1. to move; to make a body part, or a thing (such as a bolder), move

References

• “lee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “lee” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lee (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative le)

1. Alternative form of lea

Scots

Etymology

From Old English l?ogan

Verb

lee (third-person singular present lees, present participle leein, past leet, past participle leet)

1. To lie (tell lies).

Spanish

Verb

lee

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of leer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of leer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of leer.

Tswana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.?/

Noun

lee 5 (plural mae)

1. egg

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English lien, from Old English li??an, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan.

Verb

lee (second-person singular simple present leeesth)

1. to lie, lay

Etymology 2

Verb

lee

1. Alternative form of laave

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN