ليلك

ليلك

See also: لیلک‎ and لیلك‎

Arabic

ليلَك

Etymology

From Persian لیلک‎ (līlak, “lilac”), also related to نیلک‎ (nīlak), doublet of نِيلَج‎ (nīlaj), نِيل‎ (nīl, “indigo”).

Pronunciation

• (classicized) IPA^(key): /laj.lak/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /liː.lak/

Noun

لَيْلَك or لِيلَك • (laylak or līlak) m

1. lilac (Syringa gen. et spp.)

Declension

Declension of noun لَيْلَك (laylak)‎; لِيلَك (līlak)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	لَيْلَك‎; لِيلَك laylak‎; līlak	اللَّيْلَك‎‎; اللِّيلَك‎ al-laylak‎; al-līlak	لَيْلَك‎; لِيلَك laylak‎; līlak
Nominative	لَيْلَكٌ‎; لِيلَكٌ laylakun‎; līlakun	اللَّيْلَكُ‎‎; اللِّيلَكُ‎ al-laylaku‎; al-līlaku	لَيْلَكُ‎; لِيلَكُ laylaku‎; līlaku
Accusative	لَيْلَكًا‎‎; لِيلَكًا‎ laylakan‎; līlakan	اللَّيْلَكَ‎‎; اللِّيلَكَ‎ al-laylaka‎; al-līlaka	لَيْلَكَ‎; لِيلَكَ laylaka‎; līlaka
Genitive	لَيْلَكٍ‎; لِيلَكٍ laylakin‎; līlakin	اللَّيْلَكِ‎‎; اللِّيلَكِ‎ al-laylaki‎; al-līlaki	لَيْلَكِ‎; لِيلَكِ laylaki‎; līlaki

Derived terms

• لَيْلَكِيّ‎ (laylakiyy, “lilac-coloured”)

Descendants

• → French: lilas, lilac
  • → Basque: lila
  • → Breton: lireu
  • → Catalan: lilà, lila
  • → Corsican: lillà
  • → Czech: lila
  • → Danish: lilla
  • → Dutch: lila
  • → English: lilac
    • → Cornish: laylok
    • → Irish: líológ
    • → Manx: laylac
    • → Scottish Gaelic: liagh
    • → Welsh: leloc
  • → Friulian: lile
  • → Galician: lila
  • → German: Lila, lilafarben, lila
    • → Belarusian: ліловы (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: лѝла

    Latin: lìla

  • → Slovene: lȋla
  • → Swedish: lila
    • → Finnish: liila, lila
  • → Turkish: lila
  • → Zazaki: lila
• → Ottoman Turkish: لیلاق‎ (leylak)
  • Turkish: leylak
  • → Albanian: llullaq, lilak, lailak, laila
  • → Armenian: լեյլախ (leylax), լելաղ (lelał)
  • → Bulgarian: лю́ляк (ljúljak), ли́ляк (líljak), ли́лек (lílek); лю́лек (ljúlek), люле́к (ljulék); люляка f (ljuljaka)
  • → Polish: lilak (also from French)
  • → Romanian: liliac
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: љи́љак

    Latin: ljíljak

  • → Ukrainian: лілія́к (liliják) (dialectal, also from French)