Norwegian–English dictionary

late seg

To be lazy, waste time.

latin

(uncountable) The language of the ancient Romans, other Latins and of the Roman Catholic church, especially Classical Latin.

latitude

(astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.

latsabb

(slang) A person who is lazy.

latskap

(uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.

lått

An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.

latter

An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.

latterkick

(with the) An attack of uncontrolled giggling.

latterkrampe

(with the) An attack of uncontrolled giggling.

latterkule

(with the) An attack of uncontrolled giggling.

lattis

(with the) An attack of uncontrolled giggling.

Latvia

A country in northeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Latvia.

laue

A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

laug

A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages, established to oversee and protect their specific commercial interests and to provide mutual aid.

lauk

A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.

Laura

A en given name.

laurbær

An evergreen shrub of species Laurus nobilis, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.

laurbærkrans

A crown of laurel.

Laurits

A en given name.

lav

Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc.

lava

The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides; magma that has breached the surface of the earth.

lavine

A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

lavtrykksrenne

(meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

lær

A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing; often denotes leather from cattle when no qualifier specifies otherwise.

lære

To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.

lære opp

(transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).

lære utenat

To fully learn so as to have entirely available to the memory; to learn by heart, commit to memory.

lærebok

(education) A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

lærer

A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor.

lættis

(with the) An attack of uncontrolled giggling.

le

(intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

Lea

(biblical character) The elder daughter of Laban, sister to Rachel, and first wife of Jacob.

ledd

(anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.

leddbetennelse

Inflammation of a joint or joints causing pain and/or disability, swelling and stiffness, and due to various causes such as infection, trauma, degenerative changes or metabolic disorders: any of several disease entities.

leddgikt

Inflammation of a joint or joints causing pain and/or disability, swelling and stiffness, and due to various causes such as infection, trauma, degenerative changes or metabolic disorders: any of several disease entities.

leddved

Any of several species of superficially similar plants from Australia

lede

(transitive) To direct or be in charge of.

leder-

Placed at the top or the front.

ledig

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move.

lediggang

(uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.

ledning

(physics) The conveying of heat or electricity through material.

ledsager

A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies

legat

(education) The descendant of an alumnus, given preference in academic admissions.

lege

A medical doctor trained in human medicine.

legendarisk

Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.

legende

curative; providing a remedy

legering

A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.

legg

The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.

legge

To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).

legge opp

(cooking, photography) To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.

legge til

(intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.

legge til side

To keep in store for future or special use.

legislativ

Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking.

leiar

(physics) Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light, or sound.

leie

(medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.

leie ut

(transitive, chiefly, British) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.

leiebånd

A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.

leieboer

(by extension) One who has possession of any place.

leilending

A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.

Leipzig

An independent city in Saxony, Germany.

leirbål

A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.

leire

A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.

lekeplass

(outdoors) A large open space for children to play in, usually having dedicated play equipment (such as swings and slides). [1780]

lekkasje

The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.

lekke

(transitive) To satisfy, especially a literal or figurative thirst.

lem

An external body part that projects from the body.

lemen

A small arctic and subarctic rodent of the tribes Lemmini, Dicrostonychini and Lagurini.

lemleste

To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

lemur

Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).

lende

The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips.

lenestol

A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.

lenge

(placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.

lengsel

(often, followed by for or after) A strong, restless desire, longing, or mental inclination.

lengselsfull

Full of longing or yearning.

lengte

(intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).

Leningrad

(historical) Former name of Saint Petersburg: a major city in Russia, from the time of Lenin's death in 1924 until 1991.

lenke

A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.

lensmann

(US) A government official, usually responsible for law enforcement in their county and for administration of the county jail, sometimes an officer of the court, usually elected.

leopard

Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).

lerke

Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

lerret

(US) A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax, or hemp, and used to make sacks, etc.

lesbisk

A homosexual woman, one who is exclusively sexually or romantically attracted to other women.

lesing

The process of interpreting written language.

lesjon

(medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.

lesping

The act or a habit of lisping.

letargi

A state of extreme torpor, sopor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely) sluggishness, laziness. [from 14th c.]

lete

(intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.

Leto

(uncountable, Greek goddess) Leto, in Greek mythology, the mother of Apollo and Artemis.

lett

Requiring little skill or effort.

lett på tråden

(informal, pejorative, of a woman) Consenting readily to sex.

lettbedervelig

Liable to perish, especially naturally subject to quick decomposition or decay.

leve av

(transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.

leve lenger enn

(transitive) To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something).

levemann

A single man, especially a wealthy one, who devotes himself to a life of leisure and pleasure, often sexual, without commitments or responsibilities.

levende

Having life; living; not dead.

leveranse

The act of conveying something.

leveregel

A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.

levermose

A type of bryophyte with a leafy stem or leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage and a lack of stomata on the sporophyte stage of the life cycle.

Levi

(biblical character) The third son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.

LHBT

Being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, or relating to these groups as a collective.

libanesisk

Of, from, or pertaining to Lebanon or the Lebanese people.

Liberia

A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Liberia.

Libya

(historical) Africa; that is, the part of North Africa known in classical antiquity.

libysk

Of, from, or pertaining to Libya.

lidderlig

Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.

lidelse

The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.

Liechtenstein

A microstate in Central Europe. Official name: Principality of Liechtenstein. Capital: Vaduz.

Liège

The largest city and provincial capital of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

ligering

(surgery) The act of tying off or sealing a blood vessel, fallopian tube, etc during surgery; act of ligating.

lignende

Something similar, something of the identical type.

lik

The dead body of any animal with flesh; the dead body of a vertebrate; a carcass.

like

To such an extent or degree; to the same extent or degree.

likemann

Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

likevekt

The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.

likevel

(idiom) Anyway; nevertheless; nonetheless.

likhet

Closeness of appearance to something else.

likne

(transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.

liknende

Something similar, something of the identical type.

likning

(mathematics) An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated by an equal sign; in mathematical problems, equations describe various essential aspects of the problem, each of which contributes to the resolution of the problem in part.

likør

A flavored alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol.

likt

In a fair manner of distribution, giving the same amount or number to each; equally.

likvid

(finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.

likvidasjon

The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.

lilje

(heraldiccharge) A design representing a flower whose three petals are joined together at the bottom (⚜, ⚜️), often used in heraldry, where it is particularly associated with the French monarchy.

lille-

(of a sibling) Younger.

Lillian

A en given name.

limo

A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur. [from 1930s]

limousin

A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur. [from 1930s]

lindre

(transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.

lingvistikk

The systematic and scholarly study of language.

lingvistisk

Of or relating to linguistics.

linjal

A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement; a straightedge with markings.

lirke

(transitive) To carefully manipulate (someone or something) into a particular desired state, situation or position.

Lisboa

A port city on the Iberian Peninsula, at the mouth of the Tagus River on the Atlantic Ocean; the capital city of Portugal.

Lissabon

A port city on the Iberian Peninsula, at the mouth of the Tagus River on the Atlantic Ocean; the capital city of Portugal.

list

Specifically, such a tactic or artifice in military operation.

liste seg

(intransitive) To move silently or secretly.

listig

Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle

Litauen

A country in northeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Lithuania.

litauisk

Of or relating to Lithuania.

liten

(figuratively, incomparable) Young, as a child.

litium

(uncountable) The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3 and atomic weight of 6.94. It is a soft, silvery metal.

litterær

Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.

liv

A blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or similar European folk costume.

live

Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.

livegen

A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.

livegenskap

The feudal system that includes serfs.

Liverpool

A city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England; an important seaport in the United Kingdom, and once one of the biggest in the world.

livlig

Of a colour: not muted or pale; bold, brilliant, vivid.

livredder

A lifesaver: a rescuer, usually an expert swimmer, employed to save swimmers in trouble or near drowning at a body of water.