Grown enough to be treated as older or adult, especially when speaking about children.
Examples
Bērni jau ir lieli un iet skolā.
The children are already grown and go to school.
Viņš grib spēlēties ar lielajiem bērniem.
He wants to play with the older children.
Kad būšu liels, dzīvošu pie jūras.
When I am grown up, I will live by the sea.
Meita pa vasaru kļuvusi liela.
The daughter has grown big over the summer.
Lielie vakarā palīdzēja sakārtot istabu.
The older ones helped tidy the room in the evening.
Similar words
pieaudzis
izaudzis
paaudzies
vecāks
nobriedis
Shin or woody growth
noun
anatomy
neutral
A rare noun for the shin, and also for a hard annual swelling on a tree trunk.
Examples
Pēc kritiena viņam sāpēja kreisās kājas liels.
After the fall, his left shin hurt.
Ārsts pārbaudīja sasisto lielu.
The doctor examined the bruised shin.
Vecajā vārdnīcā liels dots kā apakšstilba nosaukums.
In the old dictionary, liels is given as a name for the shin.
Mežkopis parādīja cietu lielu uz egles stumbra.
The forester showed a hard growth on the spruce trunk.
Šo koka izaugumu vietējie sauc par lielu.
Local people call this tree growth a liels.
Similar words
apakšstilbs
stilbs
lielainums
Etymology
The adjective is inherited in Latvian and is usually connected with Proto-Indo-European *lei-, with a semantic path from thin or extended shape toward tall, large, and notable. The rare noun has a separate etymological explanation in older dictionaries.
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