Liga

See also: Appendix:Variations of "liga"

English

Proper noun

La Liga

1. (soccer) The highest division of professional football in Spain.

Translations

highest division of Spanish football

• Catalan: La Lliga
• Spanish: La Liga

Anagrams

• gila, Alig, Gail, Gali, Gila, glia

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lega and Spanish liga, both derived from Latin ligō (“to tie”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːɡa/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Liga f (genitive Liga, plural Ligen)

1. league (group or organization)

Declension

Declension of Liga [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Liga	die	Ligen
genitive	einer	der	Liga	der	Ligen
dative	einer	der	Liga	den	Ligen
accusative	eine	die	Liga	die	Ligen

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: ли́га (líga)
• → Czech: liga
• → Hebrew: ליגה (líga)
• → Hungarian: liga
• → Macedonian: лига (liga)
• → Polish: liga
• → Russian: ли́га (líga)
  • → Armenian: լիգա (liga)
  • → Kazakh: лига (liga)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: ли́га
  • Latin script: líga
• → Slovene: líga
• → Swedish: liga

Further reading

• “Liga”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Liga” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Liga” in Duden online
• Liga on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Liga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈliɡa], [ˈliːɡa]

Noun

Liga f (plural Ligaen or Ligen)

1. (sports, politics, etc.) league

Spanish

Proper noun

La Liga

1. (soccer) La Liga (the highest division of Spanish football)