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Finnish
Noun
leluja
- partitive plural of lelu
Polish
Etymology
See lilia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛˈlu.ja/
- Rhymes: -uja
- Syllabification: le‧lu‧ja
Noun
leluja f
- Archaic form of lilia.
- (ethnology) motive used in folk art in the shape of a lily
- (colloquial) inept person
Declension
Further reading
- leluja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- leluja in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
leluja (Cyrillic spelling лелуја)
- third-person singular present of lelujati
Silesian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Lilie. See English lily for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛˈlu.ja/
- Rhymes: -uja
- Syllabification: le‧lu‧ja
Noun
leluja f
- lily (flower in the genus Lilium)
- inept person
References
- Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “leluja”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 157