# lil
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɪl/
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* Rhymes: -ɪl
* Homophone: Lil

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

lil
* Alternative form of li'l

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

lil (plural lils)
* (gypsy slang, obsolete) A book.
** 1851, George Borrow, Lavengro: The Scholar-The Gypsy-The Priest:[H]e'll have quite enough to do in writing his own lils, and telling the world how handsome and clever he was; and who can blame him? Not I. If I could write lils, every word should be about myself and my own tacho Rommanis — my own lawful wedded wife, which is the same thing.

#### References

* John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

### Anagrams

* ill, Ill., ILL, 'ill, I'll

## Aleut
### Pronunciation

* (Western) IPA: /ˈlil/

### Verb

lil
* to look like, appear

### References

* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɪl]

### Participle

lil
* masculine singular past active participle of lít

## Irish
### Noun

lil f (genitive singular lile, nominative plural lile)
* (obsolete) Alternative form of lile (“lily”)

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
lil
lile
vocative
a lil
a lile
genitive
lile
lil
dative
lil
lile
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an lil
na lile
genitive
na lile
na lil
dative
leis an lil don lil
leis na lile :

## Lushootseed
### Adjective

lil
* far

## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic لِ (li). The final -l may be due to backformation from the personal forms, themselves derived by reduplication. Compare Moroccan Arabic ليل (līl, “for”), North Levantine Arabic لإلي (laʔilli, “to me”), لإلك (laʔillak, “to you”), etc., reduplicated personal forms of ل (la). And compare a similar backformation from the personal forms in Maltese lejn.

### Preposition

lil
* to, with
    Synonym: għand
** 2018, Antoinette Borg, Amina, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:Għafastha għax emozzjonata ħafna u għandi bżonn kbir li nħoss lil xi ħadd qrib tiegħi.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral”, in Fanali bil-Lejl:u lili firdu minn mal-art għal dejjem, u jien sfajt blata u gżira l-aktar ċkejkna, bi ftit faqqiegħ u ftit gremxul sewdieni ngħix ħajja waħdi.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Inflection

Inflected forms of lil :
| Personal-pronoun- including forms | Personal-pronoun- including forms | singular | singular | plural | plural |
| Personal-pronoun- including forms | Personal-pronoun- including forms | m | f | plural | plural |
| 1st person | 1st person | lili | lili | lilna | lilna |
| 2nd person | 2nd person | lilek | lilek | lilkom | lilkom |
| 3rd person | 3rd person | lilu | lilha | lilhom | lilhom |
| Definite forms ||||||
| Xemxin | Xemxin | Xemxin | Xemxin | Qamrin | Qamrin |
| liċ- · lid- · lin- lir- · lis- · lit- · lix- · liz- · liż- | liċ- · lid- · lin- lir- · lis- · lit- · lix- · liz- · liż- | liċ- · lid- · lin- lir- · lis- · lit- · lix- · liz- · liż- | liċ- · lid- · lin- lir- · lis- · lit- · lix- · liz- · liż- | lill- | lill- | lill- | lill- |

#### Derived terms

* ilu
* kell
* lejn
* xulxin

## Volapük
### Noun

lil (nominative plural lils)
* ear

#### Declension

* $^1$ status as a case is disputed
* $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Derived terms

* lilön