Mari-English Dictionary

liš(ke)

{adverb}

1. near, near to, close to, closer to (movement towards)

♢ mə̑j pij dek liške om mij {sentence} I'm not going near the dog

♢ tudə̑n liške it mij {sentence} do't go to him/her

♢ lišket šə̑nde {sentence} put it beside you

♦ liškat uke {phrase} let's not even talk about that

♦ liškat kondaš ogə̑l {verb II – negative} {set phrase} not to let someone come close, not to let someone approach

♦ liškat namijaš ogə̑l {verb II – negative} {set phrase} not to let someone come close, not to let someone approach

♦ liške gə̑na užmaš {noun} {medicine} nearsightedness, myopia

♦ liške kondem {verb II} {set phrase} to let close, to allow to come close

♦ liške namijem {verb II} {set phrase} to let close, to allow to come close

♦ liške mijem {verb II} to go closer

♦ liške tolam {verb I} to approach

♦ liške šinč́am {verb I} to sit down close to something

♦ liškə̑rak šinč́am {verb I} to sit down closer to something

2. about, roughly, circa

♢ kum meŋge liške kajə̑mek, kanaltaš šič́na {sentence} after walking about three kilometers, we sat down to rest

♦ βič́ βedra liške {adverb} about five bucketfuls

	● Mari → English	○ Mari ← English	○ Mari ⇆ English
Search:	● Whole Words	○ All Matches	☐ Search Subentries
Stress, Palatalness:	○ Extra Characters (•, ')	● Bold/Italics	○ Do Not Annotate
Orthography:	○ Cyrillic	● UPA	○ IPA
Ordering:	● Alphabetical	○ Reverse
a b b' v~β v' c č́ d d' e f f' g~ɣ g' χ i j k k' l l' m ḿ n ń η o ö p ṕ r ŕ s ś z ź š š́ ž ž́ t t' u ü ə̑

	www.mari-language.com:	ENGLISH \| МАРЛА \| ПО-РУССКИ
Main page » Dictionary


The Mari Web Project is primarily based at the Department of Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Vienna. The Mari-English Dictionary was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P22786-G20.
Last update: 10 August 2023

Report a mistake/Make a comment