lippe
See also: Lippe
Afrikaans
Noun
lippe
- plural of lip
Estonian
Noun
lippe
- partitive plural of lipp
French
Etymology
From Middle French lippe, from Old French lipe, lepe (“underlip”), from Middle Dutch lippe (“lip”), from Frankish *lippjō (“lip”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lip/
Audio (file)
Noun
lippe f (plural lippes)
- a lip, especially the lower one when it is large or protruded
Derived terms
- faire la lippe
- lippée
- lippu
Further reading
- “lippe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
lippe f
- plural of lippa
Anagrams
- leppi, pepli
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English lippa, from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō.
Noun
lippe (plural lippes)
- (anatomy) lip
Descendants
- English: lip
- Scots: lip
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
lippe f or m (definite singular lippa or lippen, indefinite plural lipper, definite plural lippene)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by leppe
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
lippe f (definite singular lippa, indefinite plural lipper or lippor, definite plural lippene or lippone)
- (pre-2012) alternative form of leppe