lija

See also: Lija, lijá, lijā, and -lija

Albanian

Verb

lija

1. first-person singular imperfect of lë

Latvian

Lijas

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lija/

Noun

lija f (4th declension)

1. harrier (several species of birds of prey from the subfamily Circinae, especially genus Circus)

   niedru lija ― marsh harrier

   lauku lija ― hen (lit. field) harrier

   lauku lija barojas galvenokārt ar jauniem un pieaugušajiem zvirbuļveidīgajiem putniem ― the hen harrier feeds mostly from young or juvenile passerine birds

Declension

Declension of lija (4th)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative	lija	lijas
genitive	lijas	liju
dative	lijai	lijām
accusative	liju	lijas
instrumental	liju	lijām
locative	lijā	lijās
vocative	lija	lijas

Verb

lija

1. third-person singular/plural past indicative of līt

Polish

Pronunciation

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Central Greater Poland) IPA^(key): [ˈli.ja]

Noun

lija f

1. (Central Greater Poland) alternative form of leja (“torrential downpour”)

Further reading

• Oskar Kolberg (1877), “lija”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj‎^[1] (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 20

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From lìsica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lǐːja/
• Hyphenation: li‧ja
• Rhymes: -ija

Noun

líja f (Cyrillic spelling ли́ја)

1. (hypocoristic) fox

Declension

Declension of lija

	singular	plural
nominative	lija	lije
genitive	lije	lija
dative	liji	lijama
accusative	liju	lije
vocative	lijo	lije
locative	liji	lijama
instrumental	lijom	lijama

References

• “lija”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlixa/ [ˈli.xa]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -ixa
• Syllabification: li‧ja

Etymology 1

From lijo, ultimately from Latin lixa.

Noun

lija f (plural lijas)

1. sandpaper

   Synonym: papel de lija

2. dogfish

Derived terms

• lijar

Etymology 2

Verb

lija

1. inflection of lijar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “lijo”, 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