lid

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lid"

Translingual

Symbol

lid

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nyindrou.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nyindrou terms

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

Proto-Indo-European *ḱléyti

Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós

Proto-Indo-European *-om

Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitóm

Proto-Germanic *hlidą

Proto-West Germanic *hlid

Old English hlid

Middle English lid

English lid

Inherited from Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪd/

  • Audio (US):

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  • Audio (Australia):

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  • Rhymes: -ɪd
• (obsolete, dialectal) IPA^(key): /lɛd/

Noun

lid (plural lids)

A metal lid

1. The top or cover of a container.
2. (slang) A cap or hat.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.

3. (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
4. (surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
   • 2001, realsurf.com message board‎^[2]:

     Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.

   • 2003 August, Kneelo Knews‎^[3]:

     the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders

5. (biology) An operculum or other lid-like cover.
6. (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
7. (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
8. Clipping of eyelid.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 2:

     But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].

9. (microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
10. (figurative) A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
    • 2011, Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership, page 11:

      Basically he says that there is a lid on my organization and on my future, and that lid is me. I am the problem with my company and you are the problem with your company.

11. (Liverpool, slang) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).
12. (African-American Vernacular) The sky.
13. (African-American Vernacular) One's mind.

Derived terms

• blow one's lid
• blow the lid off
• bootlid
• call a lid
• decklid
• delid
• earlid
• eyelid
• flip one's lid
• flip the lid
• flip your lid
• keep a lid on
• keep the lid on something/someone
• lidder
• lidful
• lidless
• lid-lifter
• lidlike
• lidlock
• lift the lid
• potlid
• put a lid on it
• put the lid on
• put the tin lid on it
• skid lid
• Sutton Hoo purse-lid
• there is a lid for every pot
• there's a lid for every pot
• tin lid
• trunklid

Translations

top or cover

• Albanian: kapak (sq) m, mloi(gheg)
• Amharic: ክዳን (kədan)
• Arabic: غِطَاء m (ḡiṭāʔ)
• Armenian: կափարիչ (hy) (kapʻaričʻ), խուփ (hy) (xupʻ)

  Old Armenian: կափարիչ (kapʻaričʻ), խուփ (xupʻ)

• Assamese: ঢাকনি (dhakoni), ঢাকনি (dhakoni)
• Asturian: tapa (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: qapaq (az)
• Bashkir: ҡапҡас (qapqas)
• Basque: estalki (eu)
• Belarusian: ве́чка n (vjéčka), кры́шка f (krýška)
• Bengali: ঢাকনা (bn) (ḍhakona)
• Bhojpuri: ढक्कन (ḍhakkan)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: takop (bcl)

• Bulgarian: капа́к (bg) m (kapák), похлупа́к (bg) m (pohlupák)
• Burmese: အဖုံး (my) (a.hpum:)
• Catalan: tapa (ca) f
• Chickasaw: pakna'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蓋 / 盖 (goi³)

  Dungan: гэзы (gezɨ)

  Mandarin: 蓋子 / 盖子 (zh) (gàizi), 蓋 / 盖 (zh) (gài)

• Czech: víko (cs) n, víčko (cs) n, poklička (cs) f
• Danish: låg n
• Dutch: deksel (nl) n
• Esperanto: kovrilo
• Estonian: kaas
• Faroese: lok n
• Finnish: kansi (fi)
• French: couvercle (fr) m
• Galician: tampa f, tapa (gl) f, tapadeira f, cobertoira (gl) f, tello m, testo (gl) m
• Georgian: ხუფი (xupi), თავსახური (tavsaxuri), ხუფი (xupi), სახურავი (saxuravi)
• German: Deckel (de) m
• Greek: καπάκι (el) (kapáki)

  Ancient Greek: πῶμα n (pôma)

• Hawaiian: po'i
• Hebrew: מִכְסֶה (he) m (mikhsé)
• Hindi: ढक्कन (hi) m (ḍhakkan)
• Hungarian: fedél (hu), fedő (hu), födél (hu), födő (hu)
• Icelandic: lok (is) n
• Indonesian: tudung (id), tutup (id)
• Italian: coperchio (it) m, tappo (it) m
• Japanese: 蓋 (ja) (ふた, futa)
• Kazakh: қақпақ (qaqpaq)
• Khmer: គ្រប (km) (krɔɔp), គំរប (kumrɔɔp)
• Korean: 뚜껑 (ko) (ttukkeong), 덮개 (ko) (deopgae)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qepax (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: капкак (ky) (kapkak)
• Ladin: cuiertl m
• Lao: ຝາ (lo) (fā)
• Latin: operculum n
• Latvian: vāks m
• Lithuanian: kamštelis m, dangtis m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Deckel (nds) m

• Lü: ᦚᦱ (ḟaa)
• Macedonian: капак (mk) m (kapak), поклопец m (poklopec)
• Malagasy: takotra (mg)
• Malay: tudung (ms)
• Māori: taupoki, kopani
• Marathi: झाकण (jhākaṇ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: таг (mn) (tag)

• Nivkh: ырпс (ərps)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lokk (no) n

  Nynorsk: lokk n

• Occitan: cobertor (oc) m, cobertoira (oc) f, tapador (oc) m
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: سرپوش m (sarpóš), سر پوښ m (sarpox̌)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: سَر (sar), دَر (dar), سَرْپوش (sarpuš), دَرْپوش (darpuš)

• Piedmontese: cjioèrca f
• Polish: nakrywka (pl) f, pokrywka (pl) f, wieko (pl) n, wieczko (pl) n
• Portuguese: tampa (pt) f
• Quechua: chipchi
• Romanian: capac (ro) n
• Russian: кры́шка (ru) f (krýška)
• Scottish Gaelic: mullach m, ceann m, faircill m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀пак m, по̀клопац m

  Latin: kàpak (sh) m, pòklopac (sh) m

• Shan: please add this translation if you can
• Sicilian: cummogghiu (scn) m
• Sinhalese: ආවරණය (si) (āwaraṇaya)
• Slovak: viečko n, veko n
• Slovene: pokrov (sl) m inan, pokrovka (sl) f
• Southern Altai: какпак (kakpak)
• Spanish: tapa (es) f, tapadera (es) f, tapador m
• Swahili: kifuniko (sw)
• Swedish: lock (sv) c or n
• Tagalog: takip (tl)
• Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
• Tajik: сарпӯш (sarpüš)
• Tamil: மூடி (ta) (mūṭi)
• Tatar: капкач (tt) (qapqaç)
• Telugu: మూత (te) (mūta)
• Thai: ฝา (th) (fǎa)

  Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can

• Tibetan: ཁ་གཅོད (kha gcod)
• Tigrinya: መኽደን (mäxdän)
• Turkish: kapak (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قپاق (kapak), طباق (tabak)

• Turkmen: gapak
• Ukrainian: кри́шка f (krýška)
• Urdu: ڈَھکَّن m (ḍhakkan), سَر پوش m (sar poś), ڈَھکْنا m (ḍhaknā)
• Uyghur: قاپقاق (qapqaq)
• Uzbek: qopqoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: nắp (vi), vung (vi)
• Volapük: tegot (vo), (coffin) sarkategot, (trunk) trökategot, (chest) bogategot, (box) bokategot, (glass) glätategot, (mug) köpategot
• Welsh: caead (cy) m
• Yiddish: דעקל n (dekl)
• Zhuang: fa

Verb

lid (third-person singular simple present lids, present participle lidding, simple past and past participle lidded)

1. (transitive) To put a lid on (something).

   Antonym: unlid

Derived terms

• unlid

Translations

to put a lid on something

• Bulgarian: похлупвам (bg) (pohlupvam)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 崁, 蓋 / 盖 (zh-min-nan)

• Czech: zavíčkovat pf, přikrýt víkem pf, zakrýt víkem pf
• Esperanto: kovri
• Finnish: kansittaa
• Galician: tapar (gl)
• Hungarian: fedő (hu)
• Ido: lidizar (io)
• Portuguese: tampar (pt), tamponar (pt)

References

1. Major, Clarence (1994), Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang, Puffin Books, →ISBN

Anagrams

• -dil, -dil-, DIL, DLI, IDL, dil-

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lət]

Noun

lid (plural lede, diminutive lidjie)

1. member (of a group or club)
2. member, limb

Derived terms

• lidmaat

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-o-s

Proto-Slavic *ľudъ

Czech lid

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪt]

• Audio:

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Noun

lid m inan

1. people

Declension

Declension of lid (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	lid
genitive	lidu
dative	lidu
accusative	lid
vocative	lide
locative	lidu
instrumental	lidem

Derived terms

adjectives

• lidnatý
• lidový
• liduprázdný

nouns

• lidumil
• přelidnění
• zalidnění

Further reading

• “lid”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “lid”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “lid”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hlít.

Noun

lid c (singular definite liden, not used in plural form)

1. trust

Verb

lid

1. imperative of lide

Further reading

• “lid” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: lid
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.

Noun

lid n (plural leden or (obsolete) leen or (obsolete) lee, diminutive lidje n or ledeken n)

1. member (of a group)

   Synonym: lidmaat

2. member, limb (extremity of a body)

   Synonym: ledemaat

3. member, penis

   Synonym: penis

4. (law) paragraph, subsection (legislative drafting)
5. (obsolete, grammar) article, particularly in the Southern diminutive form ledeken [from late 16th c.]

   Synonyms: lidwoord, voorlid

Derived terms

• baarlid
• erelid
• gelid
• gemeenteraadslid
• kaderlid
• kamerlid
• ledemaat
• ledenbestand
• ledental
• leewieken
• lidmaat
• lidrus
• lidwoord
• raadslid
• regeringslid
• tweeledig
• voorlid

Descendants

• Afrikaans: lid
• → Indonesian: lid
• Negerhollands: lid, leden, leeden

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch lit, let, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

Noun

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)

1. (rare) lid, cover

Derived terms

• ooglid

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch lid (“member”), from Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈlid/ [ˈlɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -id
• Syllabification: lid

Noun

lid (plural lid-lid)

1. (colloquial) member (of a group)

   Synonym: anggota

Further reading

• “lid”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Livonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliˀd/, [ˈliˀd̥]

Noun

li’d

1. nit (egg of a louse)

Declension

Declension of li’d (76)

	singular (ikšlu’g)	plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv)	li’d	lidūd
genitive (genitīv)	li’d	lidūd
partitive (partitīv)	li’ddõ	lidīdi
dative (datīv)	li’ddõn	lidūdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl)	li’dkõks	lidūdõks
illative (illatīv)	li’ddõ	lidīž
inessive (inesīv)	li’dsõ	lidīs
elative (elatīv)	li’dstõ	lidīst

References

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “li’d”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[4] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lyd, lidde, lidd, lydde

Etymology

From Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lid/

Noun

lid (plural liddis)

1. A lid; a piece of material used to cover a container.
2. The exterior of a gravesite, ditch, or pit.
3. The covering over one's eyes; an eyelid.
4. (rare) The top layer of a pastry dish.

Descendants

• English: lid
• Scots: lid

References

• “lid, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 November 2018.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lid

1. imperative of lide

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• lir, lider

Verb

lid

1. present tense of lide
2. imperative of lide

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liː/
• (Sunnmøre) IPA^(key): /liːd/

Noun

lid f (plural lidi)

1. (pre-1917 or dialectal) a sloping mountainside or hillside covered with grass or forest. alternative form of li

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lidą (“followers, flock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lid/
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

lid n

1. ship, vessel

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip

Derived terms

• lida
• lidmann

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *liþuz, whence also Old English liþ and Old Norse liðr.

Noun

lid m or n

1. member

Declension

Declension of lid (masculine i-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	lid	lidi
accusative	lid	lidi
genitive	lides	lido
dative	lide	lidim, liden
instrumental	lidu	—

Derived terms

• ⇒ Old High German: gilid
  • Middle High German: gelit, glit
    • German: Glied
    • Luxembourgish: Glidd

Descendants

• Middle High German: lit
  • Alemannic German: Lid
  • German: Lied

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *slíHtis

Proto-Italic *slītis

Old Latin stlīs

Latin lītem

Old Spanish

Spanish lid

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin lītem (“strife, dispute, quarrel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlid/ [ˈlið̞]
• Rhymes: -id
• Syllabification: lid

Noun

lid f (plural lides)

1. lawsuit

   Synonym: litigio

2. fight

   Synonym: lucha

Derived terms

• en buena lid

Related terms

• lidiar
• litigar
• litigio

Further reading

• “lid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish liþ, from Old Norse hlíð, from Proto-Germanic *hlīdō. Cognate of Latin clīvus, Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma), Old English hliþ.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːd

Noun

lid c

1. A slope of a hill.

Declension

Declension of lid

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	lid	lids
	definite	liden	lidens
plural	indefinite	lider	liders
	definite	liderna	lidernas

Verb

lid

1. imperative of lida

Further reading

• “lid”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Volapük

Etymology

From German Lied.

Noun

lid (genitive lida, plural lids)

1. song

Declension

Declension of lid

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lid	lids
Genitive	lida	lidas
Dative	lide	lides
Accusative	lidi	lidis
Predicative1	lidu	lidus
Vocative	o lid	o lids

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Welsh

Noun

lid

1. soft mutation of llid

Mutation

Mutated forms of llid

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
llid	lid	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪt/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *liþuz. The plural leden is from Dutch.

Noun

lid n (plural lidden or lea, diminutive lidsje)

1. limb, member (of the body)
2. penis
3. part (of a whole)

Usage notes

• The plural lea occurs only in sense 1 and usually in a collective sense, i.e. referring to all of a person’s limbs.

Noun

lid n (plural leden)

1. member (of a group)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

Noun

lid n (plural lidden, diminutive lidsje)

1. lid, cover
2. short for eachlid (“eyelid”)