lilas

See also: Lilas, lîlas, lilás, lilàs, and lila's

French

Alternative forms

• lilac (archaic)

Etymology

Frequently until the nineteenth century lilac, borrowed in the seventeenth from Arabic لِيلَك (līlak).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.la/, /li.lɑ/

• Audio:

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Noun

lilas m (plural lilas)

1. lilac (plant and colour)

Descendants

Derived terms

• → Basque: lila
• → Breton: lireu
• → Catalan: lilà, lila
• → Corsican: lillà
• → Czech: lila
• → Danish: lilla
• → Dutch: lila
• → English: lilac
  • → Cornish: laylok
  • → Irish: líológ
  • → Manx: laylac
  • → Scottish Gaelic: liagh
  • → Welsh: leloc
• → Friulian: lile
• → Galician: lila
• → German: Lila, lilafarben, lila
  • → Belarusian: ліло́вы (lilóvy)
  • → Latvian: lillā
    • → Estonian: lilla
    • → Livonian: lilla
  • → Polish: lilowy, liliowy
  • → Russian: лило́вый (lilóvyj)
  • → Ukrainian: ліло́вий (lilóvyj)
• → Low German: lila
• → Hungarian: lila
• → Icelandic: lila
• → Italian: lilà, lilla
• → Norwegian Bokmål: lilla
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: lilla
• → Occitan: lillà
• → Polish: lilak, lila
• → Portuguese: lilás
• → Romanian: lila
• → Spanish: lila, lilac
  • → Cebuano: lila
  • → Tagalog: lila
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: лѝла

  Latin script: lìla

• → Slovene: lȋla
• → Swedish: lila
  • → Finnish: liila, lila
• → Turkish: lila
• → Zazaki: lila

See also

Colors in French · couleurs (layout · text)

blanc	gris	noir
rouge; cramoisi, carmin	orange; brun, marron	jaune; crème
lime	vert	menthe
cyan, turquoise; bleu canard	azur, bleu ciel	bleu
violet, lilas; indigo	magenta; pourpre	rose

Further reading

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

Spanish

Adjective

lilas m pl or f pl

1. plural of lila

Noun

lilas f pl

1. plural of lila

Volapük

Noun

lilas

1. genitive plural of lil

Yami

Noun

lilas

1. (anatomy) pancreas