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* As a Dutch and German surname, from the noun list (“wisdom, ingenuity”). * Also as a Dutch surname, from the placename Ter List, from lis (“iris flag”). * As a Hungarian surname, Americanized from Lizst, from the noun liszt (“flour”). * As a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian surname, from list (“leaf”), or Slavicized from the Hungarian surname above.

From Middle English lī̆st, lī̆ste (“band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, specification; barriers enclosing area for jousting, etc.”), from Old English līste (“hem, edge, strip”), or Old French liste, listre (“border; band; strip of paper; list”), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-West Germanic *līstā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”). Cognates * Saterland Frisian Lieste (“margin, strip, list”) * Dutch lijst (“picture frame, list”) * German Low German Liest (“edging, border”) * German Leiste (“strip, rail, ledge; (heraldry) bar”) * Swedish lista (“list”) * Icelandic lista listi (“list”) * Italian lista (“list; strip”) * Portuguese lista (“list”) * Spanish lista (“list, roll; stripe”) * Galician lista (“band, strip; list”) * Finnish lista (“(informal) list; batten”).

From Middle English list, liste (“ability, cleverness, cunning, skill; adroitness, dexterity; strategem, trick; device, design, token”), from Old English list (“art, craft; cleverness, cunning, experience, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *listi, from Proto-Germanic *listiz (“art, craft”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys-, *leyǝs- (“furrow, trace, track, trail”). The word is cognate with Dutch list (“artifice, guile, sleight; ruse, strategem”), German List (“cunning, guile; ploy, ruse, trick”), Low German list (“artifice, cunning; prudence, wisdom”), Icelandic list (“art”), Saterland Frisian list (“cunning, knowledge”), Scots list (“art, craft, skill; cunning”), Swedish list (“art; cunning, guile, wile; ruse, trick; stealth”), and possibly Spanish listo (“clever”). It is also related to learn, lore.

From Middle English listen, list, liste, leste, lesten (“to choose, desire, wish (to do something)”), from Old English lystan, from Proto-West Germanic *lustijan, from Proto-Germanic *lustijaną, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (“pleasure”). The word is cognate with Saterland Frisian läste (“to wish for, desire, crave”), West Frisian lêste (“to like, desire”), Dutch lusten (“to appreciate, like; to lust”), German lüsten, gelüsten (“to desire, want, crave”), Danish lyste (“to desire, feel like, want”), Faroese lysta (“to desire”). The noun sense is from the verb, or from Middle English list, liste, lest, leste (“desire, wish; craving, longing; enjoyment, joy, pleasure”), which is derived from Middle English listen, list (verb).

Uncertain; possibly from tilting on lists in jousts, or from Etymology 4 in the sense of inclining towards what one desires.

From Middle English listen, from Old English hlystan (“to listen”), from hlyst (“hearing”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlusti, from Proto-Germanic *hlustiz (“hearing”).

268 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: и́ва (íva) — strip of fabric
• Bulgarian: кена́р (kenár) — strip of fabric
• Catalan: llista — strip of fabric
• Finnish: nauha — strip of fabric
• French: lisière — strip of fabric
• Galician: tira — strip of fabric
• Polish: krajka — strip of fabric
• Portuguese: tira — strip of fabric
• Russian: кро́мка (krómka) — strip of fabric
• Russian: кайма́ (kajmá) — strip of fabric
• Russian: каёмка (kajómka) — strip of fabric
• Spanish: tira — strip of fabric
• Spanish: lista — strip of fabric
• Finnish: räsy — material used for cloth selvage
• Albanian: listë — enumeration or compilation of items
• Arabic: قَائِمَة (qāʔima) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Arabic: قائمة (qāʔima) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Arabic: لستة (lista) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Armenian: ցուցակ (cʻucʻak) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Armenian: ցանկ (cʻank) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Asturian: llista — enumeration or compilation of items
• Azerbaijani: siyahı — enumeration or compilation of items
• Azerbaijani: سیاهه — enumeration or compilation of items
• Bashkir: исемлек (isemlek) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Bashkir: теҙем (teźem) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Basque: zerrenda — enumeration or compilation of items
• Belarusian: спіс (spis) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Belarusian: пералі́к (pjeralík) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Bengali: তালিকা (talika) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Bengali: সূচী (śuci) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Bengali: ফর্দ (phordo) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Bulgarian: спи́сък (spísǎk) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Burmese: စာရင်း (carang:) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Catalan: llista — enumeration or compilation of items
• Chinese Mandarin: 單子 /单子 (dānzi) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Chinese Mandarin: 列表 (lièbiǎo) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Ngazidja Comorian: orodhwa — enumeration or compilation of items
• Crimean Tatar: cedvel — enumeration or compilation of items
• Czech: seznam — enumeration or compilation of items
• Danish: liste — enumeration or compilation of items
• Dutch: lijst — enumeration or compilation of items
• Esperanto: listo — enumeration or compilation of items
• Estonian: loend — enumeration or compilation of items
• Finnish: luettelo — enumeration or compilation of items
• Finnish: lista — enumeration or compilation of items
• French: liste — enumeration or compilation of items
• Galician: lista — enumeration or compilation of items
• Georgian: სია (sia) — enumeration or compilation of items
• German: Liste — enumeration or compilation of items
• Greek: κατάλογος (katálogos) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Greek: λίστα (lísta) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Ancient Greek: κατάλογος (katálogos) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Ancient Greek: ἀπογραφή (apographḗ) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Haitian Creole: lis — enumeration or compilation of items
• Hebrew: רְשִׁימָה (r'shimá) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Hindi: तालिका (tālikā) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Hindi: सूची (sūcī) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Hungarian: lista — enumeration or compilation of items
• Hungarian: jegyzék — enumeration or compilation of items
• Icelandic: listi — enumeration or compilation of items
• Icelandic: skrá — enumeration or compilation of items
• Ido: listo — enumeration or compilation of items
• Indonesian: daftar — enumeration or compilation of items
• Irish: liosta — enumeration or compilation of items
• Italian: lista — enumeration or compilation of items
• Italian: elenco — enumeration or compilation of items
• Japanese: 一覧 (ichiran) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Japanese: 目録 (mokuroku) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Japanese: 名簿 (meibo) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Japanese: リスト (risuto) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Japanese: 表 (hyō) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Kalmyk: бүрткл (bürtkl) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Kazakh: тізім (tızım) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Khmer: តារាង (taaraang) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Korean: 명부 (myeongbu) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Korean: 목록 (mongnok) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Korean: 리스트 (riseuteu) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Korean: 표 (pyo) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Kyrgyz: тизме (tizme) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Lao: ບັນຊີ (ban sī) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Lao: ລາຍການ (lāi kān) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Latin: repertorium — enumeration or compilation of items
• Latin: index — enumeration or compilation of items
• Latvian: saraksts — enumeration or compilation of items
• Limburgish: lies — enumeration or compilation of items
• Lithuanian: sąrašas — enumeration or compilation of items
• Luxembourgish: Lëscht — enumeration or compilation of items
• Macedonian: список (spisok) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Malay: senarai — enumeration or compilation of items
• Malayalam: പട്ടിക (paṭṭika) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Māori: rārangi — enumeration or compilation of items
• Marathi: यादी (yādī) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Mongolian: нэрс (ners) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Nepali: सूची (sūcī) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Nepali: तालिका (tālikā) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Nogai: тизим (tizim) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Norwegian Bokmål: liste — enumeration or compilation of items
• Norwegian Nynorsk: liste — enumeration or compilation of items
• Pashto: نوملړ (numlaṛ) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Iranian Persian: فِهْرِسْت (fehrest) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Iranian Persian: سِیاهِه (siyâhe) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Iranian Persian: لیسْت (list) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Polish: lista — enumeration or compilation of items
• Polish: spis — enumeration or compilation of items
• Portuguese: lista — enumeration or compilation of items
• Portuguese: rol — enumeration or compilation of items
• Romanian: listă — enumeration or compilation of items
• Russian: спи́сок (spísok) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Russian: пе́речень (pérečenʹ) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Scots: leet — enumeration or compilation of items
• Scottish Gaelic: liosta — enumeration or compilation of items
• Serbo-Croatian: спи̏сак — enumeration or compilation of items
• Serbo-Croatian: spȉsak — enumeration or compilation of items
• Slovak: zoznam — enumeration or compilation of items
• Slovene: seznam — enumeration or compilation of items
• Spanish: lista — enumeration or compilation of items
• Spanish: relación — enumeration or compilation of items
• Spanish: nómina — enumeration or compilation of items
• Spanish: rol — enumeration or compilation of items
• Swedish: lista — enumeration or compilation of items
• Tagalog: listahan — enumeration or compilation of items
• Tajik: рӯйхат (rüyxat) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Tajik: феҳрист (fehrist) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Tamil: பட்டியல் (paṭṭiyal) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Tamil: லிஸ்ட் (lisṭ) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Tatar: исемлек (isemlek) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Telugu: జాబితా (jābitā) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Thai: รายการ (raai-gaan) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Turkish: liste — enumeration or compilation of items
• Ottoman Turkish: دفتر (defter) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Ottoman Turkish: پوصوله (pusula) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Turkmen: spisok — enumeration or compilation of items
• Turkmen: tertip — enumeration or compilation of items
• Ukrainian: спи́сок (spýsok) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Ukrainian: пере́лік (perélik) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Urdu: فِہْرِسْت (fihrist) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Urdu: لِسْٹ (lisṭ) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Uzbek: roʻyxat — enumeration or compilation of items
• Uzbek: spiska — enumeration or compilation of items
• Vietnamese: danh sách — enumeration or compilation of items
• Walloon: lisse — enumeration or compilation of items
• Walloon: djivêye — enumeration or compilation of items
• Welsh: rhestr — enumeration or compilation of items
• Yiddish: רשימה (r'shime) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Yiddish: ליסטע (liste) — enumeration or compilation of items
• Finnish: aita — barriers for tournaments
• French: lice — barriers for tournaments
• French: moulure — narrow strip of wood
• French: plinthe — narrow strip of wood
• Norwegian Bokmål: list — narrow strip of wood
• Norwegian Nynorsk: list — narrow strip of wood
• Catalan: llista — computing: codified representation of a list
• Czech: seznam — computing: codified representation of a list
• Dutch: lijst — computing: codified representation of a list
• Finnish: lista — computing: codified representation of a list
• Galician: lista — computing: codified representation of a list
• Georgian: სია (sia) — computing: codified representation of a list
• German: Liste — computing: codified representation of a list
• Greek: λίστα (lísta) — computing: codified representation of a list
• Hindi: सूची (sūcī) — computing: codified representation of a list
• Hungarian: lista — computing: codified representation of a list
• Indonesian: senarai — computing: codified representation of a list
• Italian: listato — computing: codified representation of a list
• Japanese: 演算 (enzan) — computing: codified representation of a list
• Iranian Persian: فِهْرِسْت (fehrest) — computing: codified representation of a list
• Polish: lista — computing: codified representation of a list
• Portuguese: lista — computing: codified representation of a list
• Russian: спи́сок (spísok) — computing: codified representation of a list
• Slovak: zoznam — computing: codified representation of a list
• Swedish: lista — computing: codified representation of a list
• Turkish: liste — computing: codified representation of a list
• Bulgarian: накреняване (nakrenjavane) — nautical: tilting or careening to one side
• Estonian: kreen — nautical: tilting or careening to one side
• Finnish: kallistuma — nautical: tilting or careening to one side
• Finnish: kallistus — nautical: tilting or careening to one side
• French: gîte — nautical: tilting or careening to one side
• French: bande — nautical: tilting or careening to one side
• German: Schlagseite — nautical: tilting or careening to one side
• German: Krängung — nautical: tilting or careening to one side
• Irish: liosta — nautical: tilting or careening to one side
• Polish: przechył — nautical: tilting or careening to one side
• Portuguese: banda — nautical: tilting or careening to one side
• Russian: крен (kren) — nautical: tilting or careening to one side
• Spanish: escora — nautical: tilting or careening to one side
• Asturian: allistar — to create or recite a list
• Bulgarian: записвам в списък (zapisvam v spisǎk) — to create or recite a list
• Catalan: llistar — to create or recite a list
• Catalan: allistar — to create or recite a list
• Chinese Mandarin: 列入 (lièrù) — to create or recite a list
• Danish: liste — to create or recite a list
• Dutch: oplijsten — to create or recite a list
• Esperanto: listigi — to create or recite a list
• Estonian: loetlema — to create or recite a list
• Finnish: listata — to create or recite a list
• Finnish: luetella — to create or recite a list
• French: lister — to create or recite a list
• French: énumérer — to create or recite a list
• Galician: listar — to create or recite a list
• Galician: alistar — to create or recite a list
• German: aufzählen — to create or recite a list
• Ancient Greek: καταλέγω (katalégō) — to create or recite a list
• Ido: listigar — to create or recite a list
• Ingrian: luetella — to create or recite a list
• Italian: elencare — to create or recite a list
• Italian: listare — to create or recite a list
• Japanese: 挙げる (ageru) — to create or recite a list
• Japanese: 並べる (naraberu) — to create or recite a list
• Japanese: 列記する (rekki-suru) — to create or recite a list
• Japanese: 列挙する (rekkyo suru) — to create or recite a list
• Japanese: 枚挙する (maikyo suru) — to create or recite a list
• Malay: senaraikan — to create or recite a list
• Norwegian Bokmål: liste — to create or recite a list
• Norwegian Nynorsk: liste — to create or recite a list
• Persian: فهرست کردن (fehrest kardan) — to create or recite a list
• Persian: سیاهه کردن (siyâhe kardan) — to create or recite a list
• Polish: spisać — to create or recite a list
• Polish: spisywać — to create or recite a list
• Polish: wymienić — to create or recite a list
• Polish: wymieniać — to create or recite a list
• Polish: katalogować — to create or recite a list
• Polish: skatalogować — to create or recite a list
• Portuguese: listar — to create or recite a list
• Russian: вноси́ть в спи́сок (vnosítʹ v spísok) — to create or recite a list
• Russian: составля́ть спи́сок (sostavljátʹ spísok) — to create or recite a list
• Russian: регистри́ровать (registrírovatʹ) — to create or recite a list
• Slovene: naštevati — to create or recite a list
• Spanish: hacer una lista — to create or recite a list
• Spanish: alistar — to create or recite a list
• Spanish: listar — to create or recite a list
• Spanish: enlistar — to create or recite a list
• Spanish: figurar — to create or recite a list
• Swahili: kuorodesha — to create or recite a list
• Turkish: listelemek — to create or recite a list
• Turkish: sıralamak — to create or recite a list
• Vietnamese: liệt kê — to create or recite a list
• Dutch: luisteren — to listen
• Finnish: kuunnella — to listen
• Polish: słyszeć — to listen
• Polish: słuchać — to listen
• Spanish: escuchar — to listen
• Finnish: miellyttää — to be pleasing to
• German: neigen — to be pleasing to
• Occitan: agradar — to be pleasing to
• Polish: podobać się — to be pleasing to
• Portuguese: agradar — to be pleasing to
• Bulgarian: искам (iskam) — to desire, like, wish
• Bulgarian: желая (želaja) — to desire, like, wish
• Finnish: haluta — to desire, like, wish
• German: wünschen — to desire, like, wish
• Occitan: voler — to desire, like, wish
• Occitan: desirar — to desire, like, wish
• Polish: życzyć sobie — to desire, like, wish
• Russian: жела́ть (želátʹ) — to desire, like, wish
• Turkish: istemek — to desire, like, wish
• Turkish: dilemek — to desire, like, wish
• Turkish: arzu etmek — to desire, like, wish
• Bulgarian: накренявам се (nakrenjavam se) — to tilt to one side
• Finnish: kallistua — to tilt to one side
• French: gîter — to tilt to one side
• German: krängen — to tilt to one side
• Māori: tītaha — to tilt to one side
• Norman: canter — to tilt to one side
• Russian: крени́ться (krenítʹsja) — to tilt to one side
• Russian: накрени́ться (nakrenítʹsja) — to tilt to one side
• Spanish: escorar — to tilt to one side
• Bulgarian: накренявам (nakrenjavam) — to cause (something) to tilt to one side
• Russian: накрени́ть (nakrenítʹ) — to cause (something) to tilt to one side
• Spanish: escorar — to cause (something) to tilt to one side