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From French liane, influenced by lien (“link, bond”). The word comes from the western dialects of West Indian French.

liana (plural lianas)

  1. (botany) A climbing woody vine, usually tropical.

    • 1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, chapter II, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

      Many of the older trees presented a very curious appearance from the tresses of a liana hanging from their boughs, and resembling bundles of hay.

    • 1884, Achilles Daunt, Frank Redcliffe: A story of travel and adventure in the forests of Venezuela (A Book for Boys), London: T. Nelson & Sons, Chapter 5, p. 99,[1]
      Flowering lianas hung in long streaming lines from the outstretched boughs and dipped their pendulous bouquets in the water of the igarape, which reflected the cloudless blue of the sky.

    • 1943 April 4, Allied Geographical Section, Southwest Pacific Area, Getting About in New Guinea, page 6:

      Allow friendly natives to walk in front of you on the track. They have sharp eyes for pitfalls, snakes, hornets, and stinging plants. They will cut the lianas and thorny trailers. They like to do it.

    • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 3:

      They left the drive and stood among the wild tannia under the saman tree. Mrs Tulsi held a liana and offered it to Mr Biswas. While he felt it, she held a thinner liana and pulled it down. ‘As strong as rope,’ she said. ‘The children could skip with this.’

climbing woody vine

From English liana, from French liane, influenced by lien (“link, bond”).

  • IPA(key): /ˈlia̯na/
  • Hyphenation: lia‧na

liana (plural liana-liana)

  1. (botany) liana: a climbing woody vine, usually tropical
  • IPA(key): /ˈlja.na/, (traditional) /liˈa.na/
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Hyphenation: lià‧na, (traditional) li‧à‧na

liana f (plural liane)

  1. liana (vine)
  2. plot (complicated)

Borrowed from French liane.

  • IPA(key): /ˈlja.na/
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Syllabification: lia‧na

liana f

  1. liana
  • liana in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • liana in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /liˈɐ̃.nɐ/ [lɪˈɐ̃.nɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈljɐ̃.nɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /liˈɐ.na/ [lɪˈɐ.na], (faster pronunciation) /ˈljɐ.na/
  • Hyphenation: li‧a‧na

liana f (plural lianas)

  1. liana (climbing woody vine)
    Synonym: cipó

Borrowed from French liane, of unknown ultimate origin.

  • IPA(key): /ˈljana/ [ˈlja.na]
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Syllabification: lia‧na

liana f (plural lianas)

  1. liana
    Synonyms: bejuco, guaco

-liana (infinitive kuliana)

  1. Reciprocal form of -lia
Conjugation of -liana
Positive present -naliana
Subjunctive -liane
Negative -liani
Imperative singular liana
Infinitives
Positive kuliana
Negative kutoliana
Imperatives
Singular liana
Plural lianeni
Tensed forms
Habitual huliana
Positive past positive subject concord + -liliana
Negative past negative subject concord + -kuliana
Positive present (positive subject concord + -naliana)
Singular Plural
1st person ninaliana/naliana tunaliana
2nd person unaliana mnaliana
3rd person m-wa(I/II) analiana wanaliana
other classes positive subject concord + -naliana
Negative present (negative subject concord + -liani)
Singular Plural
1st person siliani hatuliani
2nd person huliani hamliani
3rd person m-wa(I/II) haliani hawaliani
other classes negative subject concord + -liani
Positive future positive subject concord + -taliana
Negative future negative subject concord + -taliana
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -liane)
Singular Plural
1st person niliane tuliane
2nd person uliane mliane
3rd person m-wa(I/II) aliane waliane
other classes positive subject concord + -liane
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -siliane
Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngeliana
Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singeliana
Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngaliliana
Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singaliliana
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -aliana)
Singular Plural
1st person naliana twaliana
2nd person waliana mwaliana
3rd person m-wa(I/II) aliana waliana
m-mi(III/IV) waliana yaliana
ji-ma(V/VI) laliana yaliana
ki-vi(VII/VIII) chaliana vyaliana
n(IX/X) yaliana zaliana
u(XI) waliana see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) kwaliana
pa(XVI) paliana
mu(XVIII) mwaliana
Perfect positive subject concord + -meliana
"Already" positive subject concord + -meshaliana
"Not yet" negative subject concord + -jaliana
"If/When" positive subject concord + -kiliana
"If not" positive subject concord + -sipoliana
Consecutive kaliana / positive subject concord + -kaliana
Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kaliane
Object concord —
Relative forms
General positive (positive subject concord + -liana- + relative marker)
Singular Plural
m-wa(I/II) -lianaye -lianao
m-mi(III/IV) -lianao -lianayo
ji-ma(V/VI) -lianalo -lianayo
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -lianacho -lianavyo
n(IX/X) -lianayo -lianazo
u(XI) -lianao see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -lianako
pa(XVI) -lianapo
mu(XVIII) -lianamo
Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + -liana)
Singular Plural
m-wa(I/II) -yeliana -oliana
m-mi(III/IV) -oliana -yoliana
ji-ma(V/VI) -loliana -yoliana
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -choliana -vyoliana
n(IX/X) -yoliana -zoliana
u(XI) -oliana see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -koliana
pa(XVI) -poliana
mu(XVIII) -moliana
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.