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: (file)

Noun

lilas m (plural lilas)

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: leylak
- → Irish: líológ
- → Manx: laylac
- → Scottish Gaelic: liagh
- → Welsh: lelog
→ 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

plural of lila

Noun

lilas f pl

plural of lila

Volapük

Noun

lilas

genitive plural of lil

Yami

Noun

lilas

(anatomy) pancreas