Lille

See also: lille and lisle

English

Etymology

From French Lille (see there for more), from Old French l'Isle (“the Island”), ultimately from Latin īnsula (“island”). Compare also isle and Lyle.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lēl
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /liːl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /lil/
• Homophone: leal
• Rhymes: -iːl

Proper noun

Lille

1. A city, the capital of the Nord department, France; regional capital of Hauts-de-France.
2. A town and municipality of the province of Antwerp, Belgium.

Translations

city in France

• Arabic: لِيل (ar) f (līl)

  Hijazi Arabic: ليل f (līl)

• Armenian: Լիլ (hy) (Lil)
• Belarusian: Ліль m (Lilʹ)
• Catalan: Lilla f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 里爾 (zh) (Lǐ'ěr)

• Corsican: Lilla f
• Czech: Lille (cs) n
• Dutch: Rijsel n
• Esperanto: Lillo
• Finnish: Lille (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Lila f
• French: Lille (fr) f
• Georgian: ლილი (lili)
• German: Lille f, (historical) Ryssel n
• Greek: Λίλλη (el) f (Lílli), Λιλ (el) f (Lil)
• Hebrew: ליל (he) m (Lil)
• Hindi: लील (hi) f (līl)
• Italian: Lilla (it) f
• Japanese: リール (Rīru)
• Korean: 릴 (Ril)
• Latin: Īnsula (la) f
• Limburgish: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: Lilis m
• Luxembourgish: Lille (lb)
• Macedonian: Лил m (Lil)
• Marathi: लिल n (lil)
• Occitan: Lilla (oc) f
• Picard: Lile f
• Polish: Lille (pl) n
• Portuguese: Lille f, Lila f
• Romanian: Lille (ro) f
• Russian: Лилль (ru) m (Lillʹ)
• Spanish: Lille (es) f, (historical) Lila (es) f
• Thai: ลีล (liil)
• Turkish: Lille
• Ukrainian: Лілль m (Lillʹ)
• Urdu: لیل m (līl)
• West Flemish: Rysel n
• West Frisian: Risel n, Lille n

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French l'Isle (“the Island”), from Latin Īnsula, from īnsula (“island”), whence also île. The name was resegmented (like its Dutch counterpart Rijsel): in à l'Isle (“at the Isle”), the definite article came to be considered part of the name, and it was thus interpreted as à Lille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lil/
• Rhymes: -il

• Audio (Paris)

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Proper noun

Lille f

1. Lille (the department capital of the Nord department, France; regional capital of Hauts-de-France)

   Meronyms: Bois-Blancs, Faubourg de Béthune, Fives, Hellemmes-Lille, Lille-Moulins, Lomme, Saint-Maurice Pellevoisin, Vauban-Esquermes, Wazemmes

Derived terms

• lillois
• Lillois m, Lilloise f