elim

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See also: Elim and élim

Akolet

Noun

elim

  1. woman

Further reading

  • ABVD, citing Hiroko Sato

Nzadi

Noun

elim (plural elim)

  1. The African brown knifefish.

Further reading

  • Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi : a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish الیم (elim), from Arabic أَلِيم (ʔalīm).

Adjective

elim (dated)

  1. painful
  2. sad, grievous

References

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “elim”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “الیم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 192
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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