lie

lie meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of lie in a sentence

• Though ye haue lien among the pots, yet shall yee bee as the wings of a doue, couered with siluer, and her feathers with yellow gold.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 68:13:
• Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our life's curiosity doth go.1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers:
• For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
• It is true that the latter had assumed much more of the fault than was rightly his, but if he lied a little he may be excused, for he lied in the service of a woman, and he lied like a gentleman.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 54:

All 40 example sentences with lie

Synonyms of lie

• alternative fact
• deception
• fabrication
• falsehood
• fib
• leasing
• nonsense
• prevarication
• tall tale
• whopper

Antonyms

• truth
• fact
• verity

All synonyms and antonyms of lie

Forms of lie

Past tense of lie: lay

Plural of lie: lies

Origin of lie

From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-. Cognates Cognate with Yola lee, lidge (“to lie”), North Frisian lade, lai, laie, lei, lii, läde, läie (“to lie; to lay”), Saterland Frisian lääse (“to lie; to lay”), West Frisian lizze (“to lie”), Alemannic German ligge (“to lie”), Central Franconian lijje (“to lie”), Dutch and Dutch Low Saxon liggen (“to lie”), German liegen (“to lie”), German Low German ligge, liggen (“to lie”), Luxembourgish leien (“to lie”), Yiddish ליגן (lign, “to lie”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ligge (“to lie”), Faroese and Icelandic liggja (“to lie”), Norwegian Nynorsk ligge, liggja, liggje (“to lie”), Swedish ligga (“to lie”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan, “to lie, to rest”); and with Irish laigh, luigh (“to lie”), Manx lhie (“lie; lay”), Scottish Gaelic laigh (“lie; lay”), Faliscan 𐌋𐌄𐌂𐌄𐌕 (lecet, “he lies down”), Latin lectus (“bed”), South Picene 𐌅𐌄𐌉𐌀𐌕 (veiat, “to lie”), Ancient Greek λέχομαι (lékhomai, “to lie down”), Albanian lag (“band, encampment, troop”), Belarusian ляжа́ць (ljažácʹ, “to lie”), Bulgarian лежа́ (ležá, “to lie”), Czech ležet (“to lie”)...

From Middle English lien (“to lie, tell a falsehood”), from Old English lēogan (“to lie”), from Proto-West Germanic *leugan, from Proto-Germanic *leuganą (“to lie”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to announce, tell publicly”). Cognates Cognate with Scots lee (“to lie”), North Frisian jooge, leeg, löög (“to lie”), Saterland Frisian ljooge (“to lie”), West Frisian lige (“to lie”), Bavarian liagn (“to lie”), Dutch liegen (“to lie”), German lügen (“to lie”), Luxembourgish léien (“to lie”), Danish lyve (“to lie”), Faroese lúgva (“to lie”), Icelandic ljúga (“to lie”), Norwegian Bokmål juge, lyge, lyve (“to lie”), Norwegian Nynorsk ljuga, ljuge, lyga, lyge (“to lie”), Scanian ljuğa (“to lie”), Swedish ljuga (“to lie”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (liugan, “to lie”); also Breton le (“vow”), Cornish li (“oath”), Welsh llw (“oath, pledge, vow; curse, swear word”), Latvian lùgt (“to ask; to request; to seek; to plead; to solicit; to invoke; to desire”), Belarusian ілга́ць (ilhácʹ), лга́ць (lhácʹ, “to lie”), Bulgarian лъжа (lăža, “to lie”), Czech lhát (“to lie”), Kashubian łżec (“to lie”), Macedonian ла́же (láže, “to lie”), Polish łgać (“to lie”), Russian лгать (lgatʹ, “to lie”), Serbo-Croatian...

From Middle English lie, from Old English lyġe (“lie”), from Proto-Germanic *lugiz (“lie”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to announce, tell publicly”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Löägene (“a lie”), Dutch leugen, logen, loogen (“a lie”), German Lug, Lüge, Lügen (“a lie”), German Low German Lögen (“a lie”), Luxembourgish Ligen (“a lie”), Yiddish ליגן (lign, “a lie”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løgn (“a lie”), Icelandic lygi, lygn (“a lie”), Norwegian Nynorsk lygn, løgn (“a lie”), Swedish lögn (“a lie”); also Bulgarian лъжа́ (lăžá, “а lie”), Czech lež (“a lie”), Russian ложь (ložʹ, “а lie”), Polish łeż (“a lie”), Serbo-Croatian ла̑ж, laž (“a lie”), Slovak lož (“a lie”), Slovene lȃž (“a lie”).

Words formed from lie

• group of Lie type
• Lie algebroid
• Lie bracket
• Lie groupoid
• beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
• butter one's bread and lie in it
• deep-lying
• devil lies in the details
• forelie
• forlie
• here lies
• if you lie with dogs you will get fleas
• interlie
• let lie
• let sleeping dogs lie
• let the sleeping dogs lie
• lie above
• lie ahead
• lie around
• lie at one's door
• lie at one's heart
• lie at someone's door
• lie at someone's heart
• lie back
• lie before
• lie behind
• lie by
• lie doggo
• lie down
• lie ill in one's mouth
• lie in ambush
• lie in honor
• lie-in
• lie in
• lie in repose
• lie in state
• lie in the bed one has made
• lie in the way
• lie in wait
• lie low
• lie off
• lie on the oars
• lie-over
• lie over
• lie rough
• lie to
• lie upon
• lie waste
• lie with
• love-lies-bleeding
• make one's bed and lie in it
• mislie
• overlie
• how the land lies
• sit-lie
• superlie
• that way madness lies
• therein lies the rub
• there lies the rub
• truth lies at the bottom of a well

Related words

• lay
• a corresponding transitive version of this word
• lees
• lier
• the cake is a lie
• cry wolf
• give the lie to
• a lie has no legs
• lie through one's teeth
• I tell a lie
• decoy
• fake
• imitate

Phrases with lie

• big lie
• blue lie
• lets lie
• lie bump
• black lie
• can't lie
• lie along
• lie bumps
• Lie group
• noble lie
• white lie
• butler lie

Words that rhyme with lie

• eye
• high
• die
• fly
• by
• try
• dry
• tie
• ai
• Delhi
• apply
• pie

Questions about lie

What does lie mean?

Lie means to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.

What is lie in Hindi?

Lie in Hindi is पड़ना (paṛnā), पड़ा होना (paṛā honā), लेटना (leṭnā). See Lie meaning in Hindi.

How do you use lie in a sentence?

Though ye haue lien among the pots, yet shall yee bee as the wings of a doue, couered with siluer, and her feathers with yellow gold.

What part of speech is lie?

Lie can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.

How do you pronounce lie?

Lie is pronounced /laɪ̯/.

What is the past tense of lie?

The past tense of lie is lay.