april

See also: April, apríl, aprīl, and äpril

Danish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aˈpʁiːˀl/, [æˈpχiˀl]

Noun

april c

1. April (the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) måned i den gregorianske kalender; januar, februar, marts, april, maj, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, december
  Obsolete words: glugmåned, blidemåned, tormåned, fåremåned, ?, ?, ormemåned, høstmåned, fiskemåned, liljemåned, slagtemåned, kristmåned ^{(Category: da:Months)}

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch april, from Latin Aprīlis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈprɪl/

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• Hyphenation: april
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

april m (plural aprillen, diminutive aprilletje n)

1. the month of April

   Synonym: (archaic) grasmaand

Derived terms

• 1 aprilgrap
• april doet wat hij wil
• aprilgrap
• aprilvis

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: April
• Negerhollands: apriel
• → Caribbean Hindustani: april
• → Papiamentu: aprel
• → Sranan Tongo: aprel
• → Trió: eiperëu

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) maanden van de gregoriaanse kalender; januari, februari, maart, april, mei, juni, juli, augustus, september, oktober, november, december ^{(Category: nl:Months)}

Interlingua

Noun

april (plural aprils)

1. April

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) januario, februario, martio, april, maio, junio, julio, augusto, septembre, octobre, novembre, decembre ^{(Category: ia:Months)}

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• April (alternative spelling)
• aprèl (Maastrichtian)
• Apréll, Aprélle (Eupen)

Etymology

From Latin Aprīlis (“of the month of the goddess Venus”), perhaps based on Etruscan 𐌀𐌐𐌓𐌖 (apru), from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē, “Venus”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (traditional) /ɑˈpʀil/, (alternative modern) [ɑˈpʀɪl]
• Hyphenation: april
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

april m

1. April (month)

Livonian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin. See etymology at English April.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑpril/

Noun

april

1. April
   • https://web.archive.org/web/20130106154311/http://livones.net/

     LKS vāldiž tīemiz pivād vȯltõ 1994. āigast 2. aprils

     the opening ceremony (lit. "celebration of opening operation") of LKS (Līvõ Kultūr sidām) was on April 2, 1994

Usage notes

Perhaps by error April is one of three months (besides November and December) that LĒL doesn't list. As can be observed on sites such as livones.net, its name is april. Declension type used for other borrowed words ending in -il (e.g., makril – 140) is given in this entry.

Declension

Declension of april (140)

	singular (ikšlug)	plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv)	april	aprilõd
genitive (genitīv)	april	aprilõd
partitive (partitīv)	aprilõ	aprilidi
dative (datīv)	aprilõn	aprilõdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl)	aprilõks	aprilõdõks
illative (illatīv)	aprilõ	apriliž
inessive (inesīv)	aprils	aprilis
elative (elatīv)	aprilst	aprilist

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) janvār, februar, märts, april, maij, jūnij, jūlij, ougust, septembõr, oktōbõr, novembõr, detsembõr ^{(Category: liv:Months)}

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• April (Sylt)

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Aprīlis.

Noun

april m

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) April

   Synonym: (Mooring) gjarsmoune

See also

• months of the year in Föhr-Amrum Frisian: janewoore, febrewoore, marts, april, mei, jüüne, jüüle, august, september, oktuuber, nofember, deetsember

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin Aprīlis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈpriːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

april (indeclinable)

1. April (fourth month of the Gregorian calendar)

Derived terms

• aprilsnarr
• aprilspøk
• narre april, narre en april

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) månad i den gregorianske kalenderen; januar, februar, mars, april, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember ^{(Category: no:Months)}

References

• “april” in The Ordnett Dictionary
• “april” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin Aprīlis.

Noun

april m (indeclinable)

1. April (fourth month)

Derived terms

• aprilnarr, aprilsnarr
• aprilspøk
• narre ein april

References

• “april” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Noun

april m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of aprilie

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	april	aprilul
genitive-dative	april	aprilului
vocative	aprilule

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎpriːl/
• Hyphenation: a‧pril

Noun

àprīl m (Cyrillic spelling а̀прӣл)

1. April

   Synonym: (Croatia) trȃvanj

Declension

Declension of april

	singular	plural
nominative	àprīl	aprili
genitive	apríla	aprila
dative	aprilu	aprilima
accusative	april	aprile
vocative	aprile	aprili
locative	aprilu	aprilima
instrumental	aprilom	aprilima

Derived terms

• àprīlskī

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendara; januar/siječanj, februar/veljača, mart/ožujak, april/travanj, maj/svibanj, jun/juni/lipanj, jul/juli/srpanj, avgust/august/kolovoz, septembar/rujan, oktobar/listopad, novembar/studeni, decembar/prosinac ^{(Category: sh:Gregorian calendar months)}

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apríːl/

Noun

aprȋl m inan

1. April

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	apríl
gen. sing.	apríla
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	apríl	apríla	apríli
genitive (rodȋlnik)	apríla	aprílov	aprílov
dative (dajȃlnik)	aprílu	apríloma	aprílom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	apríl	apríla	apríle
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	aprílu	aprílih	aprílih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	aprílom	apríloma	apríli

Coordinate terms

• (Gregorian calendar months) méseci gregorijánskega koledárja; jánuar, fébruar, márec, apríl, máj, júnij, júlij, avgúst, septêmber, október, novêmber, decêmber

Slovincian

Etymology

Borrowed from German April. Compare Kashubian aprël.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈpril/
• Rhymes: -pril
• Syllabification: a‧pril

Noun

april m inan (related adjective aprilôwy)

1. April

Further reading

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “aprìl”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 5

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apˈriːl/, /apˈrɪl/

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Noun

april c

1. April

Synonyms

• gräsmånad

Derived terms

• aprilmånad
• aprilmånaden (definite form for april)
• aprilväder

Anagrams

• pilar

West Frisian

Etymology

From Latin Aprīlis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈprɪl/

Noun

april ? (plural [please provide])

1. April

   Synonym: gersmoanne

Further reading

• “april”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011