lip

See also lip-

English

Lips.

Etymology

From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepjōn (“lip”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”). Cognate with Eastern Frisian lip (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Norwegian leppe (“lip”), Latin labium (“lip”), Russian to kiss.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lĭp, IPA: /lɪp/, X-SAMPA: /lIp/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪp

Noun

lip (countable and uncountable; plural lips)

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.
   • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Part 2

     I twisted my thighs, squeezed, and compressed the lips of that virgin slit

3. (countable) The rim of an open container.
4. (slang, uncountable) backtalk, verbal impertinence.

   Don’t give me any lip!

Synonyms

• (either of the fleshy protrusions around the mouth): labium (medical term)
• (part of body resembling a lip): labium (medical)
• (rim of an open container): edge, rim
• (impertinence): backchat, cheek (informal), impudence, rudeness

Derived terms

Terms derived from lip

black lip cleft lip fat lip lip gloss lipless liplike lip-lock

lipped lipping lippy lip-read lip-reader lip service lip-smacking

lipstick lip-strap lip-synch loose lip tight-lipped

Translations

fleshy protrusion framing the mouth

• Afrikaans: lip (af)
• Albanian: buzë (sq) f
• Alviri-Vidari:

  Vidari: لو (lev)

• Arabic: شِفّة (ar) (šáfa) f

  Egyptian Arabic: شِفّة (šíffa) f

• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܣܦܬܐ (septhā, septho) f

  Hebrew: ספתא (septhā, septho) f

• Armenian: շրթունք (hy) (šrt’unk’), շուրթ (hy) (šurt’)

  Old Armenian: շուրթն (šurtʿn)

• Asturian: llabiu (ast) m
• Azeri: dodaq (az)
• Baluchi: لنٹ (lunť)
• Bashkir: ирен (iren)
• Basque: ezpain (eu)
• Belarusian: губа (be) (hubá) f
• Bengali: ঠোঁট (bn) (ţhõţ)
• Bulgarian: устна (bg) (ústna) f
• Burmese: နှုတ်ခမ်း (my) (hnou' khan:, hnou' hna̱ khan:)
• Catalan: llavi (ca) m
• Chamicuro: c̈hiila
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嘴唇 (cmn) (zuǐchún)

• Coptic: ⲥⲫⲟⲧⲟⲩ (ʔsfoḍu, ʔsfoṭu) m pl
• Czech: ret (cs) m
• Danish: læbe (da) c
• Dutch: lip (nl) f
• Esperanto: lipo (eo)
• Estonian: huul (et)
• Ewe: nuyi
• Faroese: vørr (fo) f
• Finnish: huuli (fi)
• French: lèvre (fr) f
• Georgian: ტუჩი (ka) (tuč'i)
• German: Lippe (de) f (human's lip), Lefze (de) f (animal's lip)
• Greek: χείλος (el) (cheílos) n, χείλι (el) (cheíli) n

  Ancient: χεῖλος n

• Guaraní: tembe (gn)
• Gujarati: હોઠ (gu) (hoth´) m
• Hebrew: שפה (he) (safá) f
• Hindi: होंठ (hi) (hõṭh) m, लब (hi) (lab) m
• Hungarian: ajak (hu)
• Icelandic: vör (is) f
• Indonesian: bibir (id)
• Italian: labbro (it) m
• Japanese: 唇 (ja) (くちびる, kuchibirú)
• Kazakh: ерін (kk) (yerin)
• Khmer: បបូរមាត់ (km) (bɑboo moat)
• Korean: 입술 (ko) (ipsul)
• Kurdish: lêv (ku) f, لێو (ku)
• Kyrgyz: эрин (ky) (erin)

• Lao: ຮິມຝີປາກ (lo) (himfīpāk)
• Latin: labium (la) n, lābrum (la) n, labellum (la) n
• Latvian: lūpa (lv) f
• Lithuanian: lūpa (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Lëps (lb) f
• Macedonian: усна (mk) (úsna) f
• Malay: bibir (ms)
• Maltese: xoffa (mt) f
• Maori: ngutu (mi)
• Mi'kmaq: nsi ("my lip")
• Mongolian: уруул (mn) (uruul)
• Narragansett: mussissttoon
• Navajo: adaaʼ
• Norwegian: leppe (no) c
• Old Irish: bus
• Old Norse: vǫrr f
• Ottoman Turkish: دوداق (dudaq), لب (leb)
• Persian: لب (fa) (lab)
• Polish: warga (pl) f
• Portuguese: lábio (pt) m
• Quechua: wirp'a (qu)
• Romani: vusht
• Romanian: buză (ro) f, buze (ro) pl
• Romansch: lef (rm) f, levz (rm) f, levza (rm) f, leavz (rm) f, leavza (rm) f, leiv (rm) f
• Russian: губа (ru) (gubá) f, (poetic, pl. only, "lips" or "mouth") уста (ru) (ustá) n pl
• Sanskrit: ओष्ठ (sa) (ōṣṭha)
• Scottish Gaelic: bile (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̏сна (sh) f

  Roman: ȕsna (sh) f

• Sicilian: mussu (scn) m, labbru (scn) m
• Sinhalese: තොල (si) (tola)
• Skolt Sami: põõus
• Slovak: pera (sk) f
• Slovene: ustnica (sl) f, ustna (sl) f (literary)
• Spanish: labio (es) m
• Swedish: läpp (sv) c
• Tagalog: (literally) labi (tl)
• Tajik: лаб (tg) (lab)
• Taos: łòxóyna
• Tatar: ирен (tt) (iren)
• Telugu: పెదవి (te) (pedavi)
• Thai: โอษฐ์ (th) (òht), ริมฝีปาก (th) (rim fĕe bpàak)
• Turkish: dudak (tr)
• Turkmen: dodak (tk)
• Ukrainian: губа (uk) (hubá) f
• Urdu: ہونٹھ (ur) (hõṭh) m, لب (ur) (lab) m
• Uzbek: lab (uz)
• Vietnamese: môi (vi)
• Welsh: gwefus (cy) f, min (cy) m
• Yiddish: ליפּ (yi) (lip) f

part of body resembling a lip

• Dutch: lip (nl) f
• French: lèvre (fr) f
• Greek: χείλος (el) (kheílos) n

• Maori: ngutu (mi)
• Norwegian: leppe (no) c

rim of an open container

• Czech: okraj (cs) m
• Dutch: lipje (nl) n
• Greek: χείλος (el) (kheílos) n
• Italian: beccuccio (it) m

• Latin: lābrum (la) n
• Maori: ngutu (mi)
• Scottish Gaelic: iomall (gd) m, oir (gd) f

slang: backtalk, verbal impertinence

• Dutch: grote bek (nl), grote mond (nl), tegenspraak (nl)

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• German: Lippe f, Rand m, Unverschämtheit f
• Swahili: mdomo sg
• Telugu: పెదవి (pedavi), అంచు (amchu)

Verb

lip (third-person singular simple present lips, present participle lipping, simple past and past participle lipped)

1. To touch with the lips, notably kiss or lick, lap the lips against something
2. To utter verbally
3. To simulate speech merely by lip-movement, as suffices for a lip-reader
4. (sports) to make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪp

• audio

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• IPA: /lɪp/

Noun

lip f (plural lippen, diminutive lipje)

1. lip (part of the mouth)
2. lip (of a container)

Related terms

• lipklank
• liplezen
• lippen (verb)
• lippendienst
• lippenrood n
• lippenstift
• lipvis
• loslippig
• schaamlip
• bovenlip
• onderlip

Anagrams

• pil

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Gallo

Noun

lip (plural lips)

1. lip

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Polish

Noun

lip

1. Genitive plural of lipa.

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ekavian): lȇp
• (Ijekavian): lijȇp

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lěpъ.

Adjective

lip

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) nice, pretty
   • 1375, N.N., Muka svete Margarite (transribed from Glagolitic original):

     Pasite se, ovce mile,

     sve ste lipe, sve ste bile

   • 1501, Marko Marulić, Judita:

     Tad se usčudiše svi, vidiv Juditu,

     toko lipa biše i u takovu svitu.

   • 1759, Antun Kanižlić, Sveta Rožalija:

     Ovog zaručnika, lipa, mila, srićna,

     imati jest dika, srića, radost vična.

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

English leaf

Noun

lip

1. leaf
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:30 (translation here):

     Tasol mi givim ol grinpela lip na gras samting olsem kaikai bilong olgeta bikpela na liklik animal na bilong olgeta pisin.” Orait ol dispela samting i kamap olsem God i tok.

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