lesi

See also: lesi-, leśi, leşi, leşî, and le si

Hungarian

Etymology

les (“to spy, peep, peek”) +‎ -i (personal suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛʃi]
  • Hyphenation: le‧si
  • Rhymes: -ʃi

Verb

lesi

  1. third-person singular indicative present definite of les

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch lesie, laesie (“lesion”), from Latin laesiō (“injury”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian)
    • IPA(key): /ˈlesi/ [ˈle.si]
      • Rhymes: -esi
    • IPA(key): /ləˈsi/ [ləˈsi]
      • Rhymes: -i
  • Syllabification: le‧si

Noun

lêsi (plural lesi-lesi)

  1. lesion,
    1. (medicine) a wound or injury
    2. (medicine) an infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part
Synonyms
  • belur (Standard Malay)
  • lesi, lesion (Standard Malay)
Derived terms
  • lesi prakanker
  • lesi primer
  • lesi sekunder

Etymology 2

Inherited from Malay lesi.

Pronunciation

Adjective

lesi (comparative lebih lesi, superlative paling lesi)

  1. white
    Synonym: putih
  2. pale
    Synonym: pucat
Derived terms

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈle.zi/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ezi
  • Hyphenation: lé‧si

Participle

lesi m pl

  1. masculine plural of leso

Adjective

lesi m pl

  1. masculine plural of leso

References

  1. ^ leso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lesi

  1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of lesa

Participle

lesi

  1. (non-standard since 2012) neuter of lesen
  2. (non-standard since 2012) feminine of lesen

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

lesi

  1. dative/locative singular of leha

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

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Pronoun

lesi

  1. this; class 7 proximal demonstrative.

Swazi

Etymology

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Pronoun

lesi

  1. this; class 7 proximal demonstrative.

Tongan

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Fijian weleti, from the ship General Wellesley named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, which brought papayas from Penang and landed in Vanua Levu as part of the sandalwood trade in October 1808. Cognate with Samoan ʻesi.[1]

Noun

lesi

  1. papaya.

References

  1. ^ Langdon, Robert (April 1989) “The Secret History of the Papaw in the South Pacific: An Essay in Reconstruction”, in The Journal of Pacific History‎[1], volume 24, number 1, pages 3-20

Zulu

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlési/

Pronoun

lesi

  1. this; class 7 proximal demonstrative.

Inflection

Stem -lési (locative kulesi)
full form lési
locative kulesi
copulative yilesi
Possessive forms
modifier substantive
class 1 walesi owalesi
class 2 balesi abalesi
class 3 walesi owalesi
class 4 yalesi eyalesi
class 5 lalesi elalesi
class 6 alesi awalesi
class 7 salesi esalesi
class 8 zalesi ezalesi
class 9 yalesi eyalesi
class 10 zalesi ezalesi
class 11 lwalesi olwalesi
class 14 balesi obalesi
class 15 kwalesi okwalesi
class 17 kwalesi okwalesi

References

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