Meaning of ilu | Babel Free

Definitions

1. beauty, splendor
2. Aesthetically pleasing properties and features (appearance, color, shape etc.)
3. An ornament or decoration for sth/sb.
4. joy, delight, happiness, glee
   archaic, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Ilu on vaataja silmades.”

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

“Järv küla iluks, tüdruk maja iluks.”

A lake decorates the village, a girl decorates the household.

“Habe vanataadi ilu.”

An old man's pride is his beard.

“Pill tuleb pika ilu peale.”

What goes around, comes around.

“Nad pidasid ilu, see oligi pulm, / need kaks sääl kaelastikku.”

They were having fun, this was a wedding, / those two yonder with hands around each other's necks.

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