loyal

See also: Loyal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French loyal, from Old French loial, leial, leal, from Latin lēgālis. Doublet of legal and leal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔɪəl/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪəl

• Audio (UK)

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Adjective

loyal (comparative loyaler or loyaller, superlative loyalest or loyallest)

1. Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something.
2. Firm in allegiance to a person or institution.
3. Faithful to a person or cause.

Antonyms

• disloyal
• fickle
• treacherous

Derived terms

• loyal toast
• loyally
• loyalist

Related terms

• loyalty

Translations

firm in allegiance to a person or institution

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հավատարիմ (hy) (havatarim)
• Asturian: lleal
• Azerbaijani: vəfalı (az), sadiq (az), etibarlı, sədaqətli (az), möhkəm (az), sabit (az)
• Bashkir: тоғро (toğro)
• Belarusian: ве́рны (vjérny), адда́ны (addány), лая́льны (lajálʹny)
• Bulgarian: ве́рен (bg) (véren), пре́дан (bg) (prédan), лоя́лен (bg) (lojálen)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: lleial (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 忠誠／忠诚 (zh) (zhōngchéng), 忠诚 (zh) (zhōngchéng), 忠貞／忠贞 (zh) (zhōngzhēn), 忠贞 (zh) (zhōngzhēn), 忠實／忠实 (zh) (zhōngshí), 忠实 (zh) (zhōngshí)

  Min Dong: 忠 (düng)

• Czech: věrný (cs), loajální
• Danish: loyal (da)
• Dutch: loyaal (nl)
• Esperanto: fidela (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: lojaali (fi), uskollinen (fi)
• French: loyal (fr)
• Friulian: leâl
• Galician: leal
• Georgian: ლოიალური (loialuri), ერთგული (ertguli), თავდადებული (tavdadebuli)
• German: loyal (de), treu (de)
• Greek: πιστός (el) (pistós)
• Hebrew: נאמן (neheman)
• Hindi: निष्ठावान (niṣṭhāvān)
• Hungarian: hű (hu), hűséges (hu), lojális (hu)
• Icelandic: tryggur (is), trúr (is), dyggur (is), hollur
• Italian: leale (it), ligio (it) m, fedele (it)
• Japanese: 忠実な (ja) (ちゅうじつな, chūjitsu-na), 忠誠な (ja) (ちゅうせいな, chūsei-na)
• Khmer: ចិត្តត្រង់ (cət trɑŋ), ចំពោះ (km) (cɑmpʊəh), ភក្តី (pʰea’kdəy)
• Korean: 충성 (ko) (chungseong)
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• Ladin: fedel, leal
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: fīdus, fīdēlis
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: setia, loyal
• Maori: piripono
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Manchu: ᡨᠣᠨᡩᠣ (tondo)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: louoya
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lojal (no), trofast (no)

  Nynorsk: lojal, trufast

• Occitan: leial
• Polish: lojalny (pl) m, oddany (pl)
• Portuguese: leal (pt) m or f, fiel (pt) m or f
• Russian: ве́рный (ru) (vérnyj), пре́данный (ru) (prédannyj), лоя́льный (ru) (lojálʹnyj)
• Scots: leal
• Scottish Gaelic: dìleas
• Sicilian: liali
• Slovak: verný (sk), lojálni
• Spanish: leal (es)
• Swedish: lojal (sv)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: నమ్మకమైన (te) (nammakamaina)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: དམ་ཚིག་ཅན (dam tshig can), བརྩེ་གདུང་ཅན (brtse gdung can)
• Turkish: sadık (tr), vefalı (tr), sadakatli (tr)
• Ukrainian: ві́рний (vírnyj), ві́дданий (víddanyj), лоя́льний (lojálʹnyj)
• Venetian: łeałe
• Vietnamese: trung thành (vi)
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: געטרײַ (getray)

Anagrams

• Yolla, alloy, yallo

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French loyal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /løjaːl/, [lʌˈjæːˀl]

Adjective

loyal

1. loyal

Inflection

Inflection of loyal
	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Indefinte common singular	loyal	—	—2
Indefinite neuter singular	loyalt	—	—2
Plural	loyale	—	—2
Definite attributive1	loyale	—	—
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Derived terms

• illoyal
• loyalitet

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French

Etymology

From Old French loial (with various alternative forms: leial, leal, loyel) from Latin lēgālis. Equivalent to loi +‎ -al. Doublet of légal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lwa.jal/

• Audio

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• Homophones: loyale, loyales

Adjective

loyal (feminine loyale, masculine plural loyaux, feminine plural loyales)

1. loyal

Related terms

• loi
• loyauté

Further reading

• “loyal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from French loyal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loˈjaːl/, /lo̯aˈjaːl/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

loyal (comparative loyaler, superlative am loyalsten)

1. loyal

Antonyms

• illoyal

Related terms

• Loyalist
• Loyalität

Further reading

• “loyal” in Duden online

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French loial.

Adjective

loyal m (feminine singular loyale, masculine plural loyaux, feminine plural loyales)

1. loyal

Descendants

• French: loyal

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (loial, supplement)