lil

• IPA^(key): /lɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl
• Homophone: Lil

lil

1. Alternative form of li'l

• I'll, Ill., ill

• (Western) IPA^(key): /ˈlil/

lil

1. to look like, appear

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪl]

lil

1. masculine singular past participle of lít

lil f (genitive singular lile, nominative plural lile)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of lile (“lily”)

lil

1. far

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.

lil

1. to, with

   Synonym: għand

lil (nominative plural lils)

1. ear

• lilön