# lesi
## Hungarian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɛʃi]
* Hyphenation: le‧si
* Rhymes: -ʃi

### Verb

lesi
* third-person singular indicative present definite of les

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ləˈsi]
* Hyphenation: lê‧si

### Noun

lêsi (plural lesi-lesi, first-person possessive lesiku, second-person possessive lesimu, third-person possessive lesinya)
* lesion,
** (medicine) a wound or injury.
** (medicine) an infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part.

#### Synonyms

* belur (Standard Malay)
* lesi, lesion (Standard Malay)

### Further reading

* “lesi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈle.zi/
* Rhymes: -ezi
* Hyphenation: lé‧si

### Participle

lesi m pl
* masculine plural of leso

### Adjective

lesi m pl
* masculine plural of leso

### References

* ↑ leso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* Sile, lise

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

lesi
* (non-standard since 2012) supine of lesa

### Participle

lesi
* (non-standard since 2012) neuter of lesen
* (non-standard since 2012) feminine of lesen

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

lesi
* dative/locative singular of leha

## Southern Ndebele
### Etymology

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

### Pronoun

lesi
* this; class 7 proximal demonstrative.

## Swazi
### Etymology

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

### Pronoun

lesi
* 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.

### Noun

lesi
* papaya.

### References

* ↑ Langdon, Robert (1989 April) “The Secret History of the Papaw in the South Pacific: An Essay in Reconstruction”, in The Journal of Pacific History‎, 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: /ˈlési/

### Pronoun

lesi
* this; class 7 proximal demonstrative.

#### Inflection

Stem -lési :
| Full form | lési |
| Locative | kulesi |
| Full form | lési | lési |
| Locative | kulesi | kulesi |
| Copulative | yilesi | 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

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “lesi”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “lesi (3.9)”