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Lilith en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈlɪlɪθ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew לִילִית (lîlîṯ).

Meanings

  1. A Mesopotamian storm demon, a bearer of disease and death.
  2. (Judaism) The first wife of Adam in Jewish folklore.
    • Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told / (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) / That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, / And her enchanted hair was the first gold. 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Body’s Beauty”, in Ballads and Sonnets, London: Ellis and White, […], →OCLC, page 240:
  3. The "dark moon" or "black moon", a fictitious invisible second moon of Earth proposed by astrologers in the early 20th century. Now often interpreted as the position of the apogee of the actual Moon, or as the empty focus of the Moon's elliptical orbit (Earth occupying the other focus).
  4. A female given name from Hebrew.

Deriveds

Lilithian

Relateds

Translations (34)

ko 릴리트 (mythological demon) · is Lilith (mythological demon) · ky Лилит (mythological demon) · de Lilith (mythological demon) · de Lilith (female given name) · cmn 莉莉斯 (mythological demon) · km លីលីត (mythological demon) · he לִילִית (mythological demon) · he לִילִית (female given name) · fa لیلیت (mythological demon) · cmn 莉莉絲 /莉莉丝 (mythological demon) · nb Lilit (mythological demon) · ka ლილითი (mythological demon) · sv Lilit (mythological demon) · lv Lilita (mythological demon) · ja リリス (mythological demon) · da Lilith (mythological demon) · mr लिलिथ (mythological demon) · hi लिलिथ (female given name) · da Lilit (mythological demon) · fr Lilith (fictitious invisible second moon) · ru Лили́т (mythological demon) · hi लीलीत (mythological demon) · lv Lilita (female given name) · hy Լիլիթ (female given name) · pl Lilit (mythological demon) · kk Лилит (mythological demon) · pl Lilith (mythological demon) · nn Lilit (mythological demon) · fr Lilith (mythological demon) · ar لِيلِيث (mythological demon) · la Līlīth (mythological demon) · el Λίλιθ (mythological demon) · hy Լիլիթ (mythological demon)