Dictionary Definition
labial adj
1 of or relating to the lips of the mouth;
"labial stops"
2 relating to or near the female labium n : a
consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips [syn:
labial
consonant]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
Translations
- Dutch: labiaal
- Persian: (labi)
Noun
- a labial consonant
- an organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound
Translations
certain consonant
- Croatian: labijal, usnenik
- Dutch: labiaal /
organ pipe
- Dutch: labiaal
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Labial may refer to:
- the lips.
- the labia (genitalia).
- In linguistics, a labial consonant.
- In zoology, a labial scale.
- A flue (instrument)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, epenthetic vowel,
explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labialization, labiate, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, lipped, liquid, low, manner of articulation,
mid, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic
vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization,
pharyngealized,
phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel,
retroflex, rounded, segmental phoneme,
semivowel, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound,
stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus,
syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound,
voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide