bilabial

English

Etymology

bi- +‎ labial

Adjective

bilabial (not comparable)

1. (phonetics) Articulated with both lips.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 545:

     "Oh, yes. He talks a lot about phonemes and semantemes and bilabial fricatives. He has a van with recording apparatus in it. He's a good chap."

Related terms

• labialized
• labiodental

Translations

articulated with both lips

• Armenian: երկշրթնային (hy) (erkšrtʻnayin)
• Asturian: billabial
• Catalan: bilabial
• Finnish: bilabiaalinen (fi)
• French: bilabial (fr)
• Galician: bilabial
• Georgian: წყვილბაგისმიერი (c̣q̇vilbagismieri), ბილაბიალური (bilabialuri)
• German: bilabial (de)
• Icelandic: tvívaramæltur
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• Irish: déliopach
• Italian: bilabiale
• Navajo: daaʼii
• Polish: dwuwargowy (pl)
• Portuguese: bilabial (pt)
• Russian: билабиа́льный (ru) (bilabiálʹnyj), гу́бно-губно́й (gúbno-gubnój)
• Spanish: bilabial (es)
• Swedish: bilabial
• Welsh: dwywefusol

Noun

bilabial (plural bilabials)

1. (phonetics) A speech sound articulated with both lips.

Translations

a speech sound articulated with both lips

• Armenian: երկշրթնային (hy) (erkšrtʻnayin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雙唇音／双唇音 (zh) (shuāngchúnyīn), 双唇音 (zh) (shuāngchúnyīn)

• Finnish: bilabiaali (fi)
• Greek: διχειλικός (el) m (dicheilikós)
• Irish: déliopach m
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• Japanese: 両唇音 (ryōshin'on)
• Portuguese: bilabial (pt) f
• Russian: билабиа́льный звук m (bilabiálʹnyj zvuk), гу́бно-губно́й звук m (gúbno-gubnój zvuk)
• Serbo-Croatian: bilabijal (sh) m, dvousnenik (sh) m
• Spanish: bilabial (es) f

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French

Etymology

bi- +‎ labial

Adjective

bilabial (feminine bilabiale, masculine plural bilabiaux, feminine plural bilabiales)

1. bilabial

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

bilabial (not comparable)

1. bilabial

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Portuguese

Adjective

1. (phonetics) bilabial (articulated with both lips)

Noun

bilabial f (plural bilabiais)

1. (phonetics) bilabial (a sound articulated with both lips)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bilaˈbjal/ [bi.laˈβ̞jal]

Adjective

bilabial m or f (masculine and feminine plural bilabiales)

1. bilabial