לשוני

Hebrew

Etymology

From לָשׁוֹן (lashón, “tongue; language”) +‎ ־י (-i, “forming adjectives from nouns”).

Pronunciation

(Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /le.ʃoˈni/

Adjective

לְשׁוֹנִי • (l'shoní) (feminine לְשׁוֹנִית, masculine plural לְשׁוֹנִים or לְשׁוֹנִיִּים, feminine plural לְשׁוֹנִיּוֹת)

lingual (of or related to the tongue)
linguistic (of or relating to language)

Derived terms

דו־לשוני (dú-l'shoní, “bilingual”)
חד־לשוני (khád-l'shoní, “monolingual”)
רב־לשוני (ráv-l'shoní, “multilingual”)
תלת־לשוני (tlát-l'shoní, “trilingual”)

See also

בַּלְשָׁנִי

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