Lilian

English edit

Used since the sixteenth century, possibly originally a pet form of Elizabeth, but generally accepted as a variant of Late Latin lilium (“lily”).

Lilian

A female given name from Latin.
- 1830, Alfred Tennyson, Lilian:
  Airy, fairy Lilian, / Flitting, fairy Lilian, / When I ask her if she loves me, / Claps her tiny hands above me, / Laughing all she can.
- 2004, Willem Dijkstra, May You Live in Interesting Times, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 77:
  When it was my turn Roger told the crowd that my romanised second and third name, if written as one word in Pinyin, as is now the custom, was exactly like the English girl's name Lilian and he therefore proposed to leave it like that, Lilian being a very pretty name, he said.

female given name

Arabic: لِيلْيَان‎ f (lilyān)
Basque: Lilian
Chinese:
Mandarin: 莉蓮／莉莲 (Lìlián)
Czech: Liliana (cs) f
Danish: Lilian, Lillian
Estonian: Lilian
French: Liliane (fr) f
German: Lilian (de) f
Hawaiian: Liliana
Italian: Liliana (it) f
Japanese: リリアン (Ririan)
Korean: 릴리안 (Rillian)
Norwegian: Lillian (no)
Portuguese: Liliana (pt) f
Russian: Лилиа́на (ru) f (Liliána), Лилиа́н (Lilián) (transliteration, indeclinable)
Spanish: Liliana (es) f
Swedish: Lilian (sv)
Turkish: Lilyan

Lilian anim

Declension of Lilian (animate, ending in consonant)

“Lilian” in Euskal Onomastikaren Datutegia [Basque Onomastic Database], euskaltzaindia.eus
Xarles Bidegain, Izendegia, 1999, Elkarlanean, Donostia, →ISBN, page 271

Lilian

Lilian

Lilian m

Lilian c (genitive Lilians)