l

See also Appendix:Variations of "l", I, 1, and Ӏ

Translingual

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER L
Codepoint	U+006C
k ← Basic Latin → m

Wikipedia

Letter

l lower case (upper case L)

1. The twelfth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter L):  Ĺĺ  Ľľ  Ļļ  Ḷḷ  Ḹḹ  Ḽḽ  Ḻḻ  Łł  Ŀŀ  Ƚƚ  Ⱡⱡ  Ɫɫ  ɬ  ᶅ  ɭ  ȴ  ʟ  Ｌｌ  fl  ffl  ℔  LJLjlj  LJLjlj  Ỻỻ

Pronunciation

• IPA

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Symbol

Wikipedia

l

1. (IPA) alveolar lateral approximant.
2. litre or liter
3. The Roman numeral representing 50.
4. (linear) length (arclength is often denoted with a cursive l)

Synonyms

• (litre): L

See also

• ɮ (lezh)

Other representations of L:

• Letter styles
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  Capital and lowercase versions of L, in normal and italic type

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  Uppercase and lowercase L in Fraktur

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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(letter)IPA: /ɛl/

Audio (US)

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(phoneme)IPA: /l/, /ɫ/

Letter

l lowercase (uppercase L)

1. The twelfth letter of the English alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

Number

l lower case (upper case L)

1. The ordinal number twelfth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation

L

1. Latin Language
2. Lira
3. Low Pressure Front
4. Left
5. Lobby
6. Liber

l

1. litre, liter

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Azeri

Letter

l lower case (upper case L)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛl
• (letter name): IPA: /ɛl/

Letter

l (lower case, upper case L)

1. The twelfth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Noun

l m (plural l'en, diminutive l'etje)

1. (euphemistic) Short for lul or any other word for penis starting with an l.

See also

• Previous letter: k
• Next letter: m

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

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Letter

l lower case (upper case L)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called lo or el and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

Contraction of li, from French lui.

Pronoun

l

1. Contraction of li.

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Italian

Noun

l m and f (invariable)

1. See under L

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Latvian

Wikipedia ^lv

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [l]

Letter

L

l lower case (upper case L)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script.

See also

• Letters of the Latvian alphabet:

  burti: Aa, Āā, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ee, Ēē, Ff, Gg, Ģģ, Hh, Ii, Īī, Jj, Kk, Ķķ, Ll, Ļļ, Mm, Nn, Ņņ, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Ūū, Vv, Zz, Žž

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Malay

Letter

l

1. The twelfth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

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Mirandese

Article

l

1. the (definite article)

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /elː/, /ɛlː/
• (phoneme): IPA: /l/, /ɭ/, /ɽ/

Letter

l

1. The 12th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Usage notes

• IPA: /ɭ/ Retroflex, merge of rl.
• IPA: /ɽ/ Tjukk L (thick L), a phenomemon found in the eastern part of Norway, around Oslo and north.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /el/

Letter

l (lowercase, capital L)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /l/. Preceded by k and followed by m.

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (uppercase): L

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /l/

Letter

l (Cyrillic spelling л)

1. The 16th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by k and followed by lj.

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Spanish

Letter

l (lower case, upper case L)

1. The 12th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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Turkish

Letter

l lower case (upper case L)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called le and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) harf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz