lè

• IPA^(key): /lɛ/

From French l'heure.

lè

1. time, hour

• alè

lè

1. when

• kilè

• le — nonstandard

lè (le⁴, Zhuyin ㄌㄜˋ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 乐
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 仂
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 勒
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 叻
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 哷
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 屰
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忇
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 扐
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 垃
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 捋
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 朵
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 朸
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 楽, 樂 / 乐
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 氻
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 泐
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 玏
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 砳
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 竻
19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 簕
20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 肋
21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 脟
22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 艻
23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 阞
24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 韷
25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 頱
26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鰳 / 鳓
27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㔀

• IPA^(key): /lɛ˧˩/

• vlè

lè

1. water buffalo.

• lò / vlò

lè

1. contrastive marker.
2. clause final particle.

lè

1. it happened; it is true

   Ika le.

   Something is happening there.

   Kichi yu le?

   Did this really happen.

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “lè”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lɛ˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lɛ˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [lɛ˨˩]

From Proto-Vietic *t-lɛːl (“to stick out tongue”). Compare Proto-Khmuic *-lɛːl (“to lick, to taste”).

See also thè.

• le

lè • (𠻗, 摛, 离)

1. (transitive) to stick out

   Synonym: thè

   lè lưỡi ― to stick out one's tongue

lè

1. Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam form of nhè (“to push (usually food) out of one's mouth”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

lè • (离, 離, 囄, 𪺇)

1. (in compounds) highly; greatly