valise

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French valise. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /vəˈliːz/ Rhymes: -iːz === Noun === valise (plural valises) A piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase or travelling bag. ==== Derived terms ==== busted valise broken-down valise ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Aviles, Avilés, Leivas, Savile, aviles, lavies == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French valise, from Medieval Latin valesia, valixia, from Late Latin valisia, possibly from Gaulish *valisia (“leather bag”), from Proto-Celtic *val- (“to enclose, surround”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-. Or, possibly from Arabic وَلِيهَة (walīha, “large bag”). Maybe a borrowing through Italian valigia, even though this is dubious. Compare Spanish valija. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /va.liz/ Homophones: valisent, valises === Noun === valise f (plural valises) case, suitcase (figurative, chiefly in the plural) eyebag ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Belarusian: валі́за (valíza) → Khmer: វ៉ាលីស៍ (vaalii) → Dutch: valies → Polish: waliza → Romanian: valiză → Turkish: valiz → Ukrainian: валі́за (valíza) → Vietnamese: va li → Yiddish: וואַליזע (valize) === References === === Further reading === “valise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === levais, salive, salivé == Portuguese == === Alternative forms === valisa === Etymology === Borrowed from French valise. === Pronunciation === === Noun === valise f (plural valises) a small suitcase Synonym: maleta === Further reading === “valise”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “valise”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026