labial

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• /ˈleɪ.bi.əl/
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Borrowing from Medieval Latin labiālis (“of or pertaining to the lips”), from labium (“a lip”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to labium + -al.

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: buzor — pertaining to the lips
• Arabic: شَفَوِيّ (šafawiyy) — pertaining to the lips
• Arabic: شَفَهِيّ (šafahiyy) — pertaining to the lips
• Armenian: շրթնային (šrtʻnayin) — pertaining to the lips
• Belarusian: губны́ (hubný) — pertaining to the lips
• Bulgarian: лабиален (labialen) — pertaining to the lips
• Catalan: labial — pertaining to the lips
• Chinese Mandarin: 脣的 /唇的 (chún de) — pertaining to the lips
• Czech: retný — pertaining to the lips
• Dutch: labiaal — pertaining to the lips
• Faroese: varra- — pertaining to the lips
• Finnish: huuli- — pertaining to the lips
• Finnish: labiaalinen — pertaining to the lips
• French: labial — pertaining to the lips
• Galician: labial — pertaining to the lips
• German: Lippen- — pertaining to the lips
• German: labial — pertaining to the lips
• Greek: χειλικός (cheilikós) — pertaining to the lips
• Italian: labiale — pertaining to the lips
• Central Kurdish: لێوی (lêwî) — pertaining to the lips
• Northern Kurdish: lêvî — pertaining to the lips
• Persian: لبی (labi) — pertaining to the lips
• Polish: wargowy — pertaining to the lips
• Portuguese: labial — pertaining to the lips
• Punjabi: ਹੋਂਠੀ (hoṇṭhī) — pertaining to the lips
• Russian: губно́й (gubnój) — pertaining to the lips
• Russian: лабиа́льный (labiálʹnyj) — pertaining to the lips
• Spanish: labial — pertaining to the lips
• Ukrainian: губни́й (hubnýj) — pertaining to the lips
• Albanian: buzor — articulated by the lips
• Arabic: شَفَوِيّ (šafawiyy) — articulated by the lips
• Arabic: شَفَهِيّ (šafahiyy) — articulated by the lips
• Armenian: շրթնային (šrtʻnayin) — articulated by the lips
• Belarusian: губны́ (hubný) — articulated by the lips
• Bulgarian: лабиален (labialen) — articulated by the lips
• Burmese: ဩဌဇ (au:hta.ja.) — articulated by the lips
• Catalan: labial — articulated by the lips
• Faroese: varraljóð — articulated by the lips
• Finnish: labiaalinen — articulated by the lips
• French: labial — articulated by the lips
• Galician: labial — articulated by the lips
• Georgian: ბაგისმიერი (bagismieri) — articulated by the lips
• Georgian: ლაბიალური (labialuri) — articulated by the lips
• German: labial — articulated by the lips
• Greek: χειλικός (cheilikós) — articulated by the lips
• Indonesian: labial — articulated by the lips
• Italian: labiale — articulated by the lips
• Kashmiri: وُٹھؠ (vuṭh') — articulated by the lips
• Eastern Mari: лабиал (labial) — articulated by the lips
• Eastern Mari: тӱрван (türvan) — articulated by the lips
• Polish: labialny — articulated by the lips
• Polish: wargowy — articulated by the lips
• Portuguese: labial — articulated by the lips
• Russian: губно́й (gubnój) — articulated by the lips
• Russian: лабиа́льный (labiálʹnyj) — articulated by the lips
• Spanish: labial — articulated by the lips
• Ukrainian: губни́й (hubnýj) — articulated by the lips
• Chinese Mandarin: 脣側 /唇侧 (chúncè) — on the side facing the lips
• Finnish: labiaalinen — on the side facing the lips
• Finnish: labiaali- — on the side facing the lips
• Finnish: huuli- — furnished with lips
• Albanian: buzore — consonant articulated by the lips
• Armenian: շրթնային (šrtʻnayin) — consonant articulated by the lips
• Catalan: labial — consonant articulated by the lips
• Chinese Mandarin: 脣音 /唇音 (chúnyīn) — consonant articulated by the lips
• Finnish: labiaali — consonant articulated by the lips
• Galician: labial — consonant articulated by the lips
• German: Labial — consonant articulated by the lips
• Italian: labiale — consonant articulated by the lips
• Portuguese: labial — consonant articulated by the lips
• Serbo-Croatian: labijal — consonant articulated by the lips
• Serbo-Croatian: usnenik — consonant articulated by the lips
• Slovene: ustničnik — consonant articulated by the lips
• Slovene: labial — consonant articulated by the lips
• Spanish: labial — consonant articulated by the lips
• Welsh: gwefliad — consonant articulated by the lips
• Welsh: cytsain eneuol — consonant articulated by the lips
• Dutch: labiaal — organ pipe