lip

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
2. (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
3. (broadly, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
4. (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
5. (countable, uncountable) The edge of a high spot of land.
6. (countable, uncountable) The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
7. (countable, uncountable) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
8. (countable, uncountable) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
9. (countable, uncountable) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
10. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
11. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable) Clipping of lipstick.

Verb

1. (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
2. (figuratively, transitive) (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
3. (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
4. (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
5. (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
6. (transitive) To utter verbally.
7. (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
8. To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
9. (transitive) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.

Conceptes

llavi

costat

vora

canto

llabi

Sinònims

lips

👄

mouth

rim

brim

edge

lower lip

upper lip

back talk

margin

labium

beak

sassing

kiss

😗

flange

teat

backtalk

utter

verge

ledge

brink

insincere

sass

limbus

lug

marge

mealymouthed

osculate

point

proud

pseudo

reeding

salience

sally

set-off

shifty

side

snout

speech

threshold

tip

tongue

👅

unfelt

labrum

spokesman of chief

impudent talk

flanch

outshot

shaft collar

projecting portion

apron

Traduccions

lèvre

labio

labbro

Lippe

lip

lábio

χείλος

labium

labrum

dudak

شفة

lêv

lèvres

labbra

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/lɪp/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: lippe

Heretat de anglès antic: lippa

Cognat amb frisó occidental: lippe

Cognat amb neerlandès: lip

Cognat amb alemany: Lippe

Cognat amb suec: läpp

Cognat amb noruec: leppe

Cognat amb danès: læbe

Cognat amb llatí: labium

In summary

From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Lippe (“lip”), West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Low German Lippe (“lip”), Luxembourgish Lëps (“lip”), Vilamovian łyp (“lip”), Yiddish ליפּ (lip, “lip”), Danish læbe (“lip”), Norwegian Bokmål leppe (“lip”), Norwegian Nynorsk leppa, leppe, lippa, lippe (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”),
Latin labium (“lip”).