Lithuanian–English dictionary

Brazilija

A municipality, the capital city of Brazil; the capital of Distrito Federal, Brazil.

brazilų

Of, from, or pertaining to Brazil, or the Brazilian people.

breketai

(orthodontics) A device worn on the teeth to straighten them.

Breksitas

(UK politics) Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

brė́kšti

(intransitive, figurative) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

Brendanas

A en given name.

brendis

(uncountable) An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.

Brestas

A port city in Brittany, France.

Bretanė

An administrative region of northwest France, including most of the historic region of Brittany. [from 20th c.]

bretonų

(uncountable) The Celtic language of Brittany.

Brexit

(UK politics) Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

brezentas

(countable) A tarp, a heavy, waterproof sheet of material, often cloth, used as a cover or blanket.

Brežnev

A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Бре́жнєв (Bréžnjev)

Brežnevas

A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Бре́жнєв (Bréžnjev)

briauna

(geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.

bridžiai

(historical) A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.

briedis

The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

brigada

A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.

Brigita

A en given name.

brinkti

(intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

bristi

(intransitive) To walk through water or something that impedes progress.

Bristolis

A city, ceremonial county, and unitary authority in southwest England bordering Gloucestershire, Somerset and The River Severn.

Britanija

England, Scotland and Wales in combination.

britas

An inhabitant of Great Britain, particularly (historical) a Celt from the area of Roman Britain or (obsolete) a Welshman; a British person.

britė

An inhabitant of Great Britain, particularly (historical) a Celt from the area of Roman Britain or (obsolete) a Welshman; a British person.

britiškas

(historical) Of the ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain; Brythonic.

britų

(historical) Of the ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain; Brythonic.

brokeris

A mediator between a buyer and seller.

brokolis

A plant, Brassica oleracea var. italica, of the cabbage family, Brassicaceae; especially, the tree-shaped flower and stalk that are eaten as a vegetable.

brolija

A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.

brošiūra

A booklet of printed informational matter, like a pamphlet, often for promotional purposes.

brukalas

(uncountable, rarely, countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.

brūkšnė

(typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).

brūkšnės

(typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).

brūkšniai

(typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).

brūkšnys

(typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).

brukti

To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.

Brunėjus

A country in Southeast Asia. Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan.

bruožas

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.

brūžiklis

A tool consisting of a strip or rod of hardened and coarse metal, used for removing sharp edges, shaping, and cutting, especially through metal; usually a hand tool.

bubulis

A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.

bučinys

A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.

bučiuoti

(transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.

bučiuotis

(reciprocal) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.

bučkis

A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.

Buda

Siddhartha Gautama, the Nepali prince and Indian philosopher and teacher who founded Buddhism.

Budapeštas

The capital and the most populous city of Hungary.

bū̃das

(countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.

būdelė

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut.

budelis

An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.

būdingas

Naturally as part or consequence of something.

budizmas

The religion or philosophy derived from the teachings of Gautama Buddha.

budrus

Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover. [from 14th c.]

būdvardis

(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.

buferis

(telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.

bugienis

Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas.

būgnai

(card games) A card of the diamonds suit.

būgnelis

(anatomy) A thin membrane that separates the outer ear from the middle ear and transmits sound from the air to the malleus.

būgštauti

(transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.

buhalteris

A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).

buities darbai

domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking

buivolas

An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.

buja

(nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes

Bukareštas

The capital city of Romania.

bukas

A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches.

būklė

The health status of a medical patient.

buldogas

A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.

buldozeris

A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.

bulgaras

(countable) A native of Bulgaria.

bulgarė

(countable) A native of Bulgaria.

Bulgarija

A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Bulgaria. Capital and largest city: Sofia.

bulgariškai

(uncountable) The official language of Bulgaria.

bulgariškas

Relating to Bulgaria, its people, or the Bulgarian language.

bulgarų

Relating to Bulgaria, its people, or the Bulgarian language.

bulimija

(pathology) A chronic eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting.

bulius

Any adult male bovine.

bulvė

(informal) A potato. [from 1845]

bumerangas

A flat curved airfoil that spins about an axis perpendicular to the direction of flight, originally used in various parts of the world as a hunting weapon or, in returnable types, for sports or training.

Bùndestagas

The federal/state parliament of Germany.

buožė

(historical) A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.

buožgalvis

A young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.

bur̃bulas

A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.

burbuolė

(countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.

burė

(nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.

burna

The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.

burtininkas

A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.

burundukas

Any of the subtribe Tamiina of small, striped rodents; they are found in North America, with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk which is found primarily in Asia.

būrys

(military) A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.

buržuazija

(Marxism) The capitalist class.

būsena

(anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.

būsimas

Having to do with or occurring in the future.

Butanas

A country in South Asia, in the Himalayas. Official name: Kingdom of Bhutan. Capital: Thimphu.

butas

(chiefly, North America, Australia, Philippines) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.

būtasis laikas

(grammar) The past tense.

būti

(intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality

butikas

A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.

būtinas

Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.

būtybė

A living creature.

buvimas

(Ontology) The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.

byla

A collection of papers collated and archived together.

Čaikovskis

A transliteration of the Russian surname Чайко́вский (Čajkóvskij), usually applying to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Čampa

(historical) A collection of Cham polities in what is now Vietnam from the 2nd century through 1832.

caras

(historical) An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states.

carienė

(historical) An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar.

Čečėnija

A republic and federal subject of Russia, in the northern Caucasus. Official name: Chechen Republic. Capital: Grozny.

cechas

A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.

čekas

(countable) A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.

čekė

(countable) A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.

čekis

(UK, Commonwealth, Ireland) A written order directing a bank to pay money to a person or entity.

Čekiškai

(uncountable) A Slavic language primarily spoken in the Czech Republic.

čekiškas

Of, from, or pertaining to the Czech Republic (Czechia), the Czech people, culture, or language.

Čekoslovakija

A former country in Central Europe, now the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

čekų

Of, from, or pertaining to the Czech Republic (Czechia), the Czech people, culture, or language.

celė

A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. [from 14th c.]

celiuliozė

A complex carbohydrate that forms the main constituent of the cell wall in most plants and is important in the manufacture of numerous products, such as paper, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and explosives.

cementas

(uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.

čempionas

Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.

čempionė

Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.

centas

(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.

centralizmas

A system that centralizes, especially an administration of some kind.

centras

(geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).

centrinis

Having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention.

centurija

A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of one hundred army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing sixty to seventy or eighty) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.

cenzas

(cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

cenzūra

The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent undesirable media from being published or propagated.

cepelinas

(aviation) A type of large dirigible rigid airship of the early 20th century, built by the German Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and designed to carry passengers or bombs.

ceremonija

A ritual, with religious or cultural significance.

Cerera

(astronomy) An asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, the innermost dwarf planet; officially called (1) Ceres.

Černobylis

A partially abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear disaster.

česnakas

A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.

Cezaris

An ancient Roman family name, notably that of Julius Caesar.

cha cha cha

(Internet slang, text messaging) Lots of laughs. (occasionally used)

chalatas

A robe usually made of terrycloth intended to be worn when one is still damp from bathing or when there is no immediate need to dress fully.

chameleonas

A small to mid-size reptile, of the family Chamaeleonidae, and one of the best known lizard families able to change color and project its long tongue.

chanas

(historical) A ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages.

chaosas

The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

charãkteris

(countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.

Charonas

(Greek mythology) The ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx.

Chartumas

The capital city of Sudan.

chemikas

A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.

cheminė

Of or relating to chemistry.

cheminis

Of or relating to chemistry.

chèresas

(uncountable) A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.

cherubinas

(biblical) A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.

chirurgas

One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.

chloras

A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17.

chlorofilas

(biochemistry) Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria.

cholera

(pathology) Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.

choras

A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.

Chorvatija

A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Croatia. Capital and largest city: Zagreb. Part of Yugoslavia until 1991.