From en.wiktionary.org:
[lëft]
** English
[Left]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm], from [en], [ang], attested in
[ang], from [en], from [gem-pro] (compare dialectal [en], [fy], [nl]), from
[en], [ine-pro]. Compare [sco], [frr], [frr], [frr], [fy], obsolete [nl],
[nl], [nl], [nl], dialectal [nl], archaic [nds].
**** Alternative forms
- [political left] [en]
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Adjective
[more] <!-- lefter: "the lefter side of the debate"--Dina Cappiello,
Associated Press--> <!-- most left: "from one (the most left or liberal) to
zero" --Jack Vowles, Voters' Veto: The 2002 Election in New Zealand (2004) -->
1. Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north ; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right . This arrow points to the reader's left: ←
2. [en] Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.
3. * {{ quote-journal
|en |date=March 23, 1904 |origdate=March 22, 1904 |quotee=[Yevgeni Ivanovich
Alekseyev] |title=Waiting for the First Collision in the Yalu Region
|journal=w:St. Louis Post-Dispatch
|url=https://archive.org/details/per_st-louis-post-dispatch_st-louis-post-dispatch_1904-03-23_56_215/
|location=St. Louis |volume=56 |issue=215 |issn=1930-9600 |oclc=1764810
|page=2
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/per_st-louis-post-dispatch_st-louis-post-dispatch_1904-03-23_56_215/page/n1/
|column=2 |text=The following dispatch has been received from Viceroy
Alexieff, dated Mukden, March 22:<br>“Gen. Mitchenkow reports that on March
17 our scouts approached Anju and observed on the LEFT bank of the Ching Chong
river, opposite Anju, retrenchments made by the enemy.}}
1. [en] Left-wing ; pertaining to the political left.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1941 | author=w:George Orwell | title= [The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius]
|passage=It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in
some sense " LEFT". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was [T. E.
Lawrence]. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has
lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.}}
1. * [en]
***** Derived terms
left direction: {{col3|en|left hook |allemande left |audience left |flush left
|flush left and right |give one's left nut |go left |hard-left |house
left|left exact |left-about |left arm orthodox |left arm unorthodox |left
atrium |left back |left bank |left bower |left bracket |left brain
|left-brainer |left-click |left coast |left coset |left-drag |left eigenvalue
|left eigenvector |lefteous |left face |left field |left fielder |left-footed
|left-footer |left-half |left hand |left-hand |left-handed |left hooker |left
ideal |left identity |left inverse |left join |left-justified |left lane
camper |left lane hog |left lane hogger |left lane hugger |left lateral |left
main |leftmost |left nullspace |left-of-centre |left outer join
|left-recursive |left shift |left-to-right |left turn<pos:noun> |left
ventricle |left ventricular ejection time |left wing |over the left |over the
left shoulder |right and left |right-to-left |the left hand doesn't know what
the right hand is doing |two left feet |two left
hands|aleft|escalefter|leftern|leftfield|lefthanded|leftie|leftward|leftwards|leftwise
}}
left-wing (politics): {{col3|en|antileft|centre-left|leftard|Leftbook
|alternative
left|leftish|leftneck|leftness|leftoid|leftosphere|Leftpondia|LeftTube|leftugee|lefturd
|alt-left|Lexit|uberleft|ultraleft |dirtbag left |far-left |far left |hard
left |left anarchism |left anarchist |lefteous |leftism |leftist
|left-libertarian |left-libertarianism |left-wing |New Left |post-left
|radical left |regressive left |regressive leftism }}
***** Translations
[west side of the body when one is facing north]{{multitrans|data=
- Acehnese: [ace]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Aklanon: [akl]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Assamese: [as]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Balinese: [ban]
- Bashkir: [ba] , [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Buginese: [bug]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Buryat: [bua]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Central Dusun: [dtp]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Chickasaw: [cic]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Erzya: [myv]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Even: [eve]
- Evenki: [evn]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Fijian: [fj] , [fj]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gilbertese: [gil]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hiligaynon: [hil]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Ilocano: [ilo]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Javanese: [jv] , [jv]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Ladino: [lad]
- Lakota: [lkt]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lü: [khb]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Madurese: [mad]
- Makasar: [mak]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mi'kmaq: [mic]
- Minangkabau: [min]
- Moksha: [mdf]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Nanai: [gld]
- Naxi: [nxq]
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Nias: [nia]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Ojibwe: [oj] , [oj]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Frisian: [ofs]
- Old Javanese: [kaw] , [kaw]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pangasinan: [pag]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romani:
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru]
- Samoan: [sm]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shor: [cjs]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so]
- Sorbian:
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tahitian: [ty]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tarantino: [roa-tar]
- Tarifit: [rif]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo] , [bo]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Tongan: [to]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Udi: [udi]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Unami: [unm]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug] , [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Vilamovian: [wym]
- Waray-Waray: [war]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yaghnobi: [yai]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zande: [zne]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zealandic: [zea]
- Zhuang: [za]
[trans-bottom]
[pertaining to the political left]
- Arabic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom] }}
**** Adverb
[-]
1. On the left side .
2. Towards the left side.
3. Towards the political left.
***** Derived terms
{{col2|en |left and right |left turn<pos:interjection, verb> |please turn left
|stage left |swipe left }}
***** Translations
[on the left side]{{multitrans|data=
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Assamese: [as]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
- Bashkir: [ba] , [ba]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] [+ od + genitive] , [pl] [+ genitive] , [pl] [+ genitive]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Unami: [unm]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa] , [wa]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[towards the left side]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Assamese: [as]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa] , [wa] , [wa]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom] }}
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] The left side or direction.
2. [en] The left-wing political parties as a group ; citizen s hold ing left-wing view s as a group .
3. The left hand or fist.
4. [en] A punch delivered with the left fist.
5. * [1=en]
6. [en] A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
***** Synonyms
- [political left] [en] , [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col2|en |hang a left|dirtbag left|to the left |lefty|Copenhagen left |loony
left |Michigan left |Pittsburgh left |proper left |your other left }}
***** Translations
[the left side]{{multitrans|data=
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as] , [as]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Lakota: [lkt]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Manchu: [mnc] , [mnc]
- Maore Comorian: [swb]
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pangasinan: [pag]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[the ensemble of left-wing political parties]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] < !-- was " sayap kiri " - assumed sum-of-parts; if an idiom, remove the wikilinks to the individual words. see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Mandarin: [cmn]
- Sardinian: [sc]
- Telugu: [te]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [1] [vi] , [2] [vi]
[trans-bottom] }}
*** Etymology 2
From [en], variant of [enm], from [en], past participle of [ang]. More at
leave.
**** Verb
[en]
1. [en] .
2. * [chapter=8]
3. * [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col2|en |be left at the post |left-behind |left-off |left-over |left
periphery |left recursion |left total }}
***** Translations
[remaining]{{multitrans|data=
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as] , [as]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [with verbs signifying movement] [fi] , [with stative verbs] [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kurdish:
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom] }}
*** Etymology 3
From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en], [ang], past participle of [en], [ang],
equivalent to [en].
**** Verb
[en]
1. [en] .
*** References
- The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology, Walter W. Skeat.
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Yola
*** Etymology
From [yol], from [yol].
*** Pronunciation
- [yol]
*** Adjective
[yol]
1. left
2. * [yol]
**** Derived terms
- [yol]
*** References
- [page=129]