axil

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See also: áxil

English

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Etymology

From Latin axilla. Doublet of axilla.

Pronunciation

Noun

axil (plural axils)

  1. (botany) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.
    Synonym: axilla
    Near-synonyms: crotch, fork
    • 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf (in English), Macmillan, page 202:
      Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From a conflation of Old English eax and Old Norse ǫxull.

Pronunciation

Noun

axil (plural axils)

  1. axle (pole which a wheel revolves around)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: axle
  • Scots: aixle

References

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āgïl. Compare Turkish ağıl.

Pronunciation

Noun

axil m (Arabic spelling ئاخل)

  1. fenced-in area for sheep or cattle, pen, corral

Declension

Declension of axil
definite masculine gender
case singular plural
nominative axil axil
construct axilê axilên
oblique axilî axilan
demonstrative oblique axilî wan axilan
vocative axilo axilino
indefinite masculine gender
case singular plural
nominative axilek axilin
construct axilekî axiline
oblique axilekî axilinan

References

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “axil”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 15