# lez
## Translingual
### Symbol

lez
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Lezgi.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Lezgi terms

## English
### Alternative forms

* les

### Etymology

Clipping of lesbian.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɛz/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛz

### Noun

lez (plural lezzes)
* (slang, sometimes vulgar) Lesbian.

#### Derived terms

* lez out
* lez up

### Anagrams

* zel

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* leze, lezë
* lemzë

### Etymology

From fuller and dialectal lemzë, diminutive in -zë ~ ëz of dialectal lem (“birth; rise”), deverbative of lej (“to give birth”); the original meaning would have been ‘birthmark’.

### Noun

lez m (plural lezë, definite lezi, definite plural lezët)
* facial mole
* (medicine) wart
    Synonym: lyth
* (medicine) tumor
    Synonyms: tumor, iriq
* (dialectal) mark, spot, pimple, birthmark
    Synonyms: nishan, shenjë

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lez”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 220

### Further reading

* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
* “lez”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
* Mann, S. E. (1948) “lez”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 243

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɛs]
* Homophone: les
* Rhymes: -ɛs

### Verb

lez
* second-person singular imperative of lézt

## French
### Alternative forms

* lès

### Etymology

Inherited from Old French lez, from Late Latin latus (“next to, beside”), from Latin lātus (“side”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /le/, /lɛ/
* Audio:(file)

### Preposition

lez
* (obsolete) next to, near (still used in some place names)
    Saint-André-lez-Lille est une ville proche de Lille.Saint-André-lez-Lille is a town near Lille.

#### Derived terms

* Sauxure lez Bulgnéville

### Further reading

* “lez”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Lombard
### Etymology 1

From Latin legit, third-person singular present active indicative of legō.

#### Alternative forms

* legg, lesg, lensg (Milanese classical orthography)
* lez (Brescian classical orthography)
* lès, les (Eastern modern orthographies)

#### Pronunciation

* (Modern Western) IPA: /ˈle(ŋ)dʒ/, [lɛ(ŋ)tʃ], [lɛ(t)ʃ]
* (Modern Eastern) IPA: /lez/, [lɛs]
* (Northern, Camunian) IPA: /lez/, [lɛʰ]

#### Verb

lez (first-person singular present indicative lezi, infinitive lèzer, past participle lezud)
* third-person singular present indicative of lèzer
* third-person plural present indicative of lèzer

### Etymology 2

From Latin lex, legem (“law”).

#### Alternative forms

* lesg (Milanese classical orthography)

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Western) IPA: /ˈleːz/, [leːʃ]
* (Classical Eastern) IPA: /ˈleːz/, [les]

#### Noun

lez f (invariable)
* Alternative form of lege (“law”)

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* les, lés

### Etymology

From Latin lātus.

### Noun

lez oblique singular, m (oblique plural lez, nominative singular lez, nominative plural lez)
* side

#### Synonyms

* costé

#### Derived terms

* delez
* lez a lez

#### Descendants

* French: lès, lez
* → English: le