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# lei

«lei» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a Hawaiian garland or necklace made of flowers, leaves…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a lei, leis); also plural of leu (lei)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lei is a Hawaiian garland or necklace made of flowers, leaves, shells or feathers, given as a sign of welcome, love or celebration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lei/#m1)

2) Lei is also the plural of «leu», the money of Romania and Moldova: one leu, ten lei. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lei/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and culture lessons about Hawaii and the Pacific; in maths money problems about Romania, «lei» is the currency. Phrases: «a flower lei», «give someone a lei».

### examples

- Hugo Winckler (Die Babylonische Kullur, Lei[ /.ig 190i (P. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lei/#x1)
- They put a flower lei round our necks when we arrived in Hawaii. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lei/#x2)
- We made paper leis for the Hawaiian party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lei/#x3)
- Giving a lei is a sign of welcome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lei/#x4)
- The lei smelled of fresh flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lei/#x5)
- Hawaiian people celebrate Lei Day with flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lei/#x6)
- Some leis are made of shells or feathers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lei/#x7)
- In Romania a sandwich costs about ten lei. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lei/#x8)
- One leu, two lei: that is Romanian money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lei/#x9)

### note

Say «lay». Plural in Hawaiian sense: leis. As money, lei is already the plural of leu. Show respect: in Hawaii a lei is a meaningful gift, and it is polite not to take it off in front of the giver.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lei» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lei/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.