Appendix:Lojban/melbi

Lojban

Etymology

In Lojbanized spelling.

• Chinese: mei — 美 (měi)
• English: biutafl — beautiful
• Spanish: bel — bello
• Arabic: jamil — جَمِيل (jamīl)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmel.bi/

Root

melbi (rafsi mel or mle)

1. beautiful; x₁ is beautiful/pleasant to x₂ in aspect x₃ (ka) by aesthetic standard x₄.

   la meiris. jinvi le du'u le ka bunre cu melbi

   Mary thinks that brownness is beautiful.

   la meiris. jinvi le du'u le bunre cu melbi

   Mary thinks that the color brown is beautiful.

Derived terms

Various senses of 'cute', 'sexy', or beautiful with the modifying rafsi filling the x3 place:

• cifmle: childishly-beautiful (cifnu zei melbi); cute : babies, puppies
• citmle: youthfully-beautiful (citno zei melbi); cute/fair of face: a pretty/handsome person
• cinmle: sexually-beautiful (cinse zei melbi); sexy in a perceptive rather than agentive sense
• nolmle: nobly-beautiful (nobli zei melbi); elegant
• racmle: delicately-beautiful (ralci zei melbi); vase, lacy lingerie, lace in general.

See also

• pluka
• xamgu