Lilian

Lilian

English

Alternative forms

• (the normal US spelling): Lillian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪli.ən/

Proper noun

Lilian

1. 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.

Related terms

• Lila, Lil, Lili, Lilia, Liliana, Liliane, Liliane, Lilias, Lilli, Lillia, Lilianna, Lilliana, Lilliane, Lilliann, Lillianna, Lillianne, Lillie, Lilly, Lillyan, Lillyanne, Lily, Lilyan, Lilyann.

Translations

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

Anagrams

• alliin

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Basque

Proper noun

Lilian ?

1. a female given name

References

• Xarles Bidegain, Izendegia, 1999, Elkarlanean, Donostia, →ISBN, page 271

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Danish

Proper noun

Lilian

1. a female given name borrowed from English

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Estonian

Proper noun

Lilian

1. a female given name borrowed from English

Related terms

• Liilia
• Lilli

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.ljɑ̃/

Proper noun

Lilian m

1. a male given name, the masculine equivalent of Liliane

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Swedish

Proper noun

Lilian c (genitive Lilians)

1. a female given name of English origin