leer

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɪə̯/
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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈlɪə̯]
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• /ˈlɪː/ New South Wales, Queensland
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• [ˈlɪː] New South Wales, Queensland
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• New-Zealand: /ˈlɪ̝ə̯/
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• New-Zealand: [ˈlɪ̝ə̯]
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• New-Zealand: /ˈliə̯/
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• New-Zealand: [ˈliə̯]
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• /ˈlɛː/ East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
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• [ˈlɛː] East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
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• US: /ˈlɪɚ/
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• US: [ˈlɪɚ] ~ [ˈlɪɹ̩]
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• Scotland: /ˈliɹ/
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• Scotland: [ˈliɹ]
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• rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)
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• homophone: lear
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• homophone: lair (cheer–chair merger)
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From Middle English lere, from Old English ġelǣr, *lǣre (“empty, void, empty-handed”), from Proto-Germanic *lēziz, *lēzijaz (“empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to collect, pick”). Cognate with Dutch laar (“a clearing in the woods”), German leer (“empty”). Related to Old English lesan (“to gather, collect”). More at lease.

From German Leer, from Old Frisian Hleri.

From Norwegian Bokmål Lier, a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway, from Old Norse Líðir, plural of (h)líð (“slope”).

From Nuer.

Exact development uncertain, but apparently from a verb *leer (“to make a face, look sideways”), from leer (“cheek, face, profile”).

From Middle English ler, leor (“face, cheek”), from Old English hlēor (“face, cheek, profile”), from Proto-West Germanic *hleuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hleuzą (“ear, cheek”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlews- (“temple of the forehead, cheek”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). Cognate with Scots lire, lere (“face, appearance, complexion”), Dutch lier (“cheek”), Swedish lyra (“pout”), Norwegian lia (“hillside”), Icelandic hlýr (“the face, cheek, countenance”). Related to Old English hlyst (“sense of hearing, listening”) and hlysnan (“to listen”). More at list, listen.

See lehr.

From Middle English leren, from Old English lǣran (“to teach, instruct, guide, enjoin, advise, persuade, urge, preach, hand down”), from Proto-West Germanic *laiʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *laizijaną (“to teach”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“track, footprint, furrow, trace”). Cognate with Dutch leren (“to teach, to learn”), German lehren (“to teach”), Swedish lära (“to teach”). Related to Old English lār (“lore, learning, science, art of teaching, preaching, doctrine, study, precept, exhortation, advice, instigation, history, story, cunning”). See lore.

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: похотлив поглед (pohotliv pogled) — a sly or lecherous look
• Czech: chlípný pohled — a sly or lecherous look
• German: lüsterner Blick — a sly or lecherous look
• German: anzügliches Grinsen — a sly or lecherous look
• Irish: claonfhéachaint — a sly or lecherous look
• Russian: косо́й взгляд (kosój vzgljad) — a sly or lecherous look
• Welsh: cilwen — a sly or lecherous look
• Czech: (chlípně) pošilhávat — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Dutch: lonken — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Dutch: wellustig bekijken — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Esperanto: rigardaĉi — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Esperanto: okulumaĉi — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Finnish: silmäillä — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Finnish: mulkoilla — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Finnish: mulkaista — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• French: lorgner — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• French: zieuter — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• French: mater — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• German: anzüglich blicken — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• German: schielen — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Ancient Greek: κατιλλώπτω (katillṓptō) — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Hebrew: פָּזַל (pazál) — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Hungarian: stírol — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Italian: guardare di traverso — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Latvian: glūnēt — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Latvian: lūrēt — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Persian: نگاه کج کردن — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Polish: patrzeć pożądliwie — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Russian: ко́со смотре́ть (kóso smotrétʹ) — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent
• Russian: смотре́ть с вожделе́нием (smotrétʹ s voždelénijem) — to look with sexual desire or malicious intent