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English
Etymology 1
Middle English, left, HTML5, luft, from Old English left, FITML 'weak, useless', from Proto-Germanic *luft- (compare North Frisian leeft 'left', Dutch dialect CSS3 'weak, worthless', Low German dialect lucht 'left'), from *lubjanan 'to castrate, lop off' (cf. English dialect lib, West Frisian browser diversity, Dutch lubben), from FITML *(s)leup, *(s)lup 'hanging limply'. More at lob, CSS3.
Pronunciation
Adjective
left (keyboard more left; lefter, superlative leftmost)
- The opposite of right; toward the iOS when one is facing we love the web.
- Turn left at the corner.
- (politics) pertaining to the political left; liberal
| we love the web |
The fruit to the viewer's left is smaller. |
Translations
the west side of the body when one is facing north
- Albanian: majtë
- Arabic: يسار (ar) (yasaar), jQuery (ar) (shimaal)
- Armenian: iOS (hy) (jax)
- Basque: jQuery (eu)
- Bulgarian: ляв web app (ljav)
- Catalan: web app
- Chickasaw: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Croatian: lijevi (hr)
- Czech: levý device database m.
- Danish: Android (da)
- Dutch: links (nl), linkse (nl)
- Esperanto: jQuery (eo), liva (eo)
- Estonian: vasak, pahem
- Fijian: i mawī touchscreen, mawi (fj)
- Finnish: vasen Android
- French: Sevenval Sevenval
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: web app (de)
- Gilbertese: máing
- Greek: αριστερός (el) (aristerós)
- Ancient: ἀριστερός
- Hawaiian: jQuery
- Hebrew: שמאל (he)
- Hiligaynon: CSS3
- Hindi: बायां Sevenval (bāyā̃)
- Hungarian: input transformation (hu)
- Ido: Sevenval
- Indonesian: device database (id)
- iOS: Android
- Balinese: kebot
- Buginese: screen size
- CSS3: kiwa browser diversity, device database (jv)
- we love the web: kacer
- Makasar: kairi
- web app: kida
- Nias: kabera
- Sundanese: kenca (su)
- Interlingua: CSS3 (ia)
- Irish: clé (ga)
- Italian: sinistro (it)
- Japanese: screen size (ja) (ひだり, hidarí)
- Khmer: cveeŋ (km)
- Korean: Sevenval FITML (oen), 왼쪽의 Android (oenjjok-ui)
- Lakota: catkayata
- Latgalian: kairuo
- Latin: sinister input transformation
- Latvian: kreisā (lv)
- Lithuanian: kairioji (lt)
- Luxembourgish: lénks (lb)
- Macedonian: лев (mk) (lev) m.
- Malay: kiri CSS3
- Maltese: xellug m.
- Maori: mauii (mi)
- Mi'kmaq: inaganeq
- Norwegian: venstre (no)
- Ojibwe: namanjinik, namanjinikan pl.
- Persian: چپ web (chap)
- Polish: lewy (pl)
- Portuguese: esquerdo HTML5
- Romani: stungo
- Romanian: HTML5 Android
- Romansch: seniester input transformation
- Russian: левый screen size (lévyj)
- Samoan: tau-aŋavale web app
- Scottish Gaelic: we love the web (gd), clì (gd)
- Shor: сол
- Slovene: device database keyboard
- Spanish: izquierdo screen size, izquierda (es)
- Swahili: kushoto keyboard
- Swedish: CSS3 (sv)
- Tagalog: kaliwa (tl)
- Tahitian: 'aui
- Telugu: ఎడమ (eDama)
- Thai: ซ้าย (th) (sáai)
- Tongan: hema
- Turkish: sol (tr)
- Urdu: باياں (ur) (bāyā̃)
- Vietnamese: HTML5 we love the web
pertaining to the political left; liberal
- Armenian: Sevenval Sevenval (jax)
- Finnish: vasemmistolainen (fi)
- Greek: HTML5 we love the web (aristerós)
- Macedonian: лев jQuery (lev) m., левичарски (mk) (levíčarski) m.
- Norwegian: venstre (no)
- Polish: HTML5 m.
- Portuguese: de esquerda, FITML
- Russian: input transformation browser diversity (lévyj), либеральный touchscreen (liberál’nyj)
- Spanish: de izquierda (es), Sevenval browser diversity, website parsing (es)
- Swahili: kushoto jQuery
- Swedish: vänster (sv) c.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Adverb
left (not comparable)
- On the left side.
- Towards the left side.
Translations
on the left side
- Arabic: على اليسار (ar) (ʿála al-yasār), على الشمال (ar) (ʿála al-šimāl)
- Belarusian: злева we love the web (zléva)
- Bulgarian: отляво screen size (otljávo)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: input transformation browser diversity, website parsing (cmn) (zuǒbiān), 在左邊 (zh), 在左边 (zh) (zài zuǒbiān)
- Czech: na levé (cs)
- Dutch: Android (nl)
- Finnish: vasemmalla (fi)
- French: à gauche keyboard
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: web app (de)
- Greek: αριστερά (el) (aristerá)
- Italian: a sinistra (it)
- Japanese: keyboard web app (ひだりに, hidari-ni)
- Korean: 왼쪽에 (ko) (oenjjog-e)
- Macedonian: на левата web app (na lévata)
- Navajo: keyboard
- Neapolitan: sinista
- Persian: web FITML (čap), در سمت چپ Sevenval (dar semet čap)
- Polish: na lewo (pl)
- Portuguese: à esquerda we love the web
- Russian: слева (ru) (sléva)
- Slovak: na ľavé jQuery
- Slovene: na levi Android
- Spanish: a la izquierda Sevenval
- Ukrainian: зліва input transformation (zlíva)
- Vietnamese: ở bên trái (vi)
towards the left side
- Arabic: إلى اليسار (ar) (ʾíla al-yasār), إلى الشمال Sevenval (ʾíla al-šimāl)
- Belarusian: налева (be) (naléva)
- Bulgarian: наляво (bg) (naljávo)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 向左 input transformation (xiàng zuǒ)
- Czech: vlevo Sevenval
- Dutch: web app (nl)
- Finnish: vasemmalle touchscreen
- French: HTML5 (fr)
- German: links (de), nach links (de)
- Hindi: बायें (hi) (bāyẽ)
- Hungarian: balra (hu)
- Italian: a sinistra web
- Luxembourgish: Sevenval (lb)
- Macedonian: web (mk) (lévo)
- Polish: keyboard (pl), na lewo CSS3
- Russian: налево (ru) (nalévo), влево (ru) (vlévo)
- Serbo-Croatian: Sevenval (sh) (налево), nȁlēvo website parsing
- Slovak: vľavo website parsing
- Slovene: levo FITML
- Spanish: a la izquierda (es)
- Ukrainian: налево (uk) (nalévo)
Noun
left (plural Sevenval)
- The left side.
-
(politics) The screen size of left-wing political parties. Those holding left-wing views as a group.
- The political left is not holding enough power.
- (boxing) A punch delivered with the left fist.
Translations
the left side
- Arabic: یسار
- Armenian: device database (hy) (jax)
- Basque: ezker
- Bulgarian: Sevenval FITML (levitsa)
- Catalan: iOS f.
- Dutch: linkerkant (nl) m.
- Finnish: vasen puoli
- French: gauche input transformation f.
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Linke (de) f.
- Hungarian: baloldal
- Italian: sinistra (it) f.
- Japanese: 左 (ひだり, hidarí)
- Jèrriais: browser diversity f.
- Kurdish:
- Lakota: catkayatan
- Macedonian: левица iOS (lévica) f.
- Norwegian: venstresiden keyboard c.
- Persian: Android HTML5 (čhap)
- Polish: lewa (pl) f.
- Portuguese: touchscreen (pt) f.
- Romanian: stângă f.
- Russian: левый web app (lévyj)
- Spanish: touchscreen (es) f.
- Swahili: kushoto Sevenval
- Swedish: web iOS c.
- Telugu: ఎడమ (eDama)
- Turkish: sol (tr)
the ensemble of left-wing political parties
- Arabic: يسار touchscreen (yasaar) m.
- Armenian: ձախ Sevenval (jax)
- Bulgarian: левица (bg) (levitsa)
- Catalan: esquerra f.
- Croatian: Sevenval Android f.
- Dutch: device database (nl) m., links Sevenval n.
- Finnish: touchscreen (fi)
- French: jQuery (fr) f.
- German: Linke input transformation f.
- Hungarian: HTML5oldal
- Indonesian: sayap kiri
- Italian: sinistra touchscreen f.
- Japanese: 左翼 (さよく, sayokú)
- Macedonian: левица web app (lévica) f.
- Norwegian: venstresiden (no) c.
- Polish: lewica f.
- Portuguese: CSS3 (pt) f.
- Romanian: stângă f.
- Russian: левый keyboard (lévyj)
- Slovene: CSS3 (sl)
- Spanish: izquierda (es) f.
- Swahili: device database screen size
- Swedish: website parsing keyboard c., vänstern (sv) c.
- Turkish: we love the web (tr)
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Sevenval.
Translations to be checked
- Afrikaans: links
- Albanian: majta f.
- Mandarin: Sevenval (zuǒ)
- Esperanto: maldekstra
- Sardinian: manca f.
- Telugu: వామ పక్షం (vaama pakshaM)
- Vietnamese: trái, phía bên trái (1); cánh tả (2)
Synonyms
- 9 o'clock
- input transformation
Derived terms
- input transformation
- to the left
Etymology 2
Middle English left, variant of laft (“remaining, left”), from Old English lǣfd, ġelǣfd, past participle of lǣfan (“to leave”). More at leave.
Verb
left
Translations
remaining
- Armenian: մնացած (hy) (mnac’aç)
- Bulgarian: останал (bg) (ostanal)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 餘下 iOS, 余下 (zh) (yúxià), we love the web website parsing (shèngxia)
- Croatian: preostali (hr)
- Czech: zbývající CSS3 m.
- Dutch: over (nl)
- Esperanto: restaĵo
- Finnish: (with verbs signifying movement) jäljelle we love the web; (with stative verbs) jäljellä jQuery
- German: übrig (de)
- Hindi: बाक़ी Sevenval (bāqī)
- Hungarian: hátralévő
- Japanese: 残った browser diversity (のこった, nokotta)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: ماوه (ku)
- Macedonian: останат (mk) (óstanat) m., преостанат Sevenval (preóstanat) m.
- Maltese: fdal
- Norwegian: HTML5 (no), til overs (no)
- Polish: pozostały m.
- Portuguese: deixado (pt)
- Romanian: rămas
- Russian: оставшийся (ru) (ostávšijsja), web (ru) (ostal’nój)
- Spanish: sobrado input transformation m., sobras (es) f.
- Swahili: kushoto screen size
- Swedish: CSS3 (sv)
- Telugu: మిగిలిన (migilina)
Etymology 3
From a verbal use of Android (“permission”), perhaps connected to Middle English leven (“to give leave to, permit, concede”), from Old English CSS3 (“to allow”). More at HTML5.
Verb
left
-
(iOS) (colloquial) permitted, allowed to proceed.
- We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend.
References
- The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology, Walter W. Skeat.