"Lisu" meaning in English

See Lisu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 傈僳 (Lìsù), 𤠫𤢂, etc. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn-pinyin|-}} Hanyu Pinyin, {{bor|en|cmn|傈僳}} Mandarin 傈僳 (Lìsù), {{m|cmn|𤠫𤢂}} 𤠫𤢂 Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} Lisu (not comparable)
  1. Of, from, or pertaining to the Lisu people or Lisu language. Tags: not-comparable Translations (of, from, or pertaining to the Lisu people or Lisu language): လီဆူ (lihcu) (Burmese), 傈僳 (Lìsù) (Chinese Mandarin), लिसू (lisū) (Marathi), မူးသိူဝ်း (múu sóe) (Shan)
    Sense id: en-Lisu-en-adj-Pag8fkO9

Proper name

Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 傈僳 (Lìsù), 𤠫𤢂, etc. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn-pinyin|-}} Hanyu Pinyin, {{bor|en|cmn|傈僳}} Mandarin 傈僳 (Lìsù), {{m|cmn|𤠫𤢂}} 𤠫𤢂 Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Lisu
  1. A tonal language spoken by the Lisu people. Categories (topical): Languages Translations (language): လီဆူဘာသာစကား (lihcubhasaca.ka:) (Burmese), 傈僳語 (Chinese Mandarin), 傈僳语 (Lìsùyǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), ꓡꓲꓺ-ꓢꓴꓺ (li̱-su̱) (Lisu), लिसू (lisū) [feminine] (Marathi)
    Sense id: en-Lisu-en-name-FohvXSsK Disambiguation of Languages: 23 48 29

Noun

Forms: Lisus [plural], Lisu [plural]
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 傈僳 (Lìsù), 𤠫𤢂, etc. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn-pinyin|-}} Hanyu Pinyin, {{bor|en|cmn|傈僳}} Mandarin 傈僳 (Lìsù), {{m|cmn|𤠫𤢂}} 𤠫𤢂 Head templates: {{en-noun|s|Lisu}} Lisu (plural Lisus or Lisu)
  1. A member of a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group inhabiting the mountainous regions of Yunnan (southwestern China), Arunachal Pradesh (northeastern India), northern Myanmar and Thailand. Categories (topical): Ethnonyms Categories (place): Myanmar Translations (member of ethnic group): လီဆူ (lihcu) (Burmese), 傈僳 (Lìsù) (Chinese Mandarin), 傈僳族 (Lìsùzú) (Chinese Mandarin), लिसू (lisū) (Marathi), မူးသိူဝ်း (múu sóe) (Shan)
    Sense id: en-Lisu-en-noun-9jmr75KW Disambiguation of Ethnonyms: 9 19 72 Disambiguation of Myanmar: 4 12 84 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "word": "Lisu"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.