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Songwriter Tommie Connor also wrote English lyrics with the title "Lily of the Lamplight" in 1944. [6] Another English translation was done by Theodore Stephanides during World War II and published in his memoir Climax in Crete in 1946.
It is sometimes considered a diminutive of the name Lily or a combination of the names Lily and Louise. [2] It may also have originated as a short form of names ending in the sound "lee" such as Aurélie, Amélie, Aline, Élise, Élie, Coralie, or Liliane, following the French way of forming short forms of names by adding the suffix "ou" to ...
Its origin is the Latin word Lilium (lily). [citation needed] In French, Lilian (French pronunciation:) is the male form of the name, while Liliane is the female form. The first time this name became popular was in the early 1700s, with the expansion of the French colonial empire around the world. [citation needed]
Other popular combination names in use include Lily-Rose, a combination of Lily and the name Rose, which is particularly well used in Quebec, Canada, where it was the 65th most popular name for newborn girls in 2022 [6] and ranked among the top 300 names overall for girls in Canada in 2021, placing 297th on the popularity chart with 105 uses ...
Lily (white) Purity, chastity White lily: アルストロメリア: Arusutoromeria: Lily of the Incas (Alstroemeria) Such strong connection that language is limited when trying to explain it Alstroemeria (Lily of the Incas) CT: 小百合: Sayuri: Lily (orange) Hatred, revenge Orange lily: 鈴蘭/百合: Suzuran/Yuri: Lily of the Valley/Spider ...
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The term "lily" has in the past been applied to numerous flowering plants, often with only superficial resemblance to the true lily, including water lily, fire lily, lily of the Nile, calla lily, trout lily, kaffir lily, cobra lily, lily of the valley, daylily, ginger lily, Amazon lily, leek lily, Peruvian lily, and others. All English ...
As in façade, Provençal, and araçari, the Ç is meant to be pronounced as an S. US dictionaries give various pronunciations: / ˌ ʒ ɑː s ə ˈ n ɑː / ZHAH-sə-NAH, [5] [6] / ˌ dʒ ɑː s ə ˈ n ɑː / JAH-sə-NAH, [6] as well as the anglicised / dʒ ə ˈ k ɑː n ə / jə-KAH-nə, [7] which is the only pronunciation in an Australian ...