gril

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

gril (comparative more gril, superlative most gril)

1. Alternative form of grill

Verb

gril (third-person singular simple present grils, present participle grilling, simple past and past participle grilled)

1. Alternative form of grill

Etymology 2

Noun

gril (plural grils)

1. (Internet slang, humorous) Misspelling of girl.

Anagrams

• Girl, LIRG, girl

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English grill, from Middle French grille, grisle, from Old French greille, graïlle, from earlier gradilie (end of 10th century), from Latin crāticula (or a Vulgar Latin graticula)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

gril m inan

1. grill, barbecue

   Synonyms: rožeň, rošt

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• gril in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• gril in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin gryllus.

Noun

gril

1. cricket

References

• Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣrɪl/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: gril
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle High German grille (“cricket”) (modern Grille). Perhaps the shift in sense is due to a conflation of crickets with earwigs, involving the popular myth of insects which crawl through the ears to lay eggs in the brain, altering a person's behaviour.

Noun

gril f or m (plural grillen, diminutive grilletje n)

1. caprice, whim, impulse

Etymology 2

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. Alternative form of grill

French

Etymology

At least 1300s, from Middle French gril, from Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin crātīcula (“grating”), diminutive of crātis (“hurdle, wickerwork”). Doublet of grille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁil/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. grill (cooking implement made of metal rods)
2. (historical) A heated metal grill used to torture by burning
3. (by extension, chiefly phrasal) Torture, torment
   • 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis-clos (No Exit), Act 1, sc. 5:

     Je n’aurais jamais cru... vous vous rappelez: le soufre, le bûcher, le gril...

     I would never have believed it... you remember: the fire, the brimstone, the torment...

   retourner sur le gril d’école

   suffer the torment of school (literally "turn over on the grill")

   passer sur le gril

   rake over the coals

Usage notes

• Although sense 3 mostly appears in set phrases with sur, literarily it may sometimes be used on its own, such as in the above quotation.

Derived terms

• griller

Related terms

• grille

Further reading

• “gril”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin crātīcula (“gridiron”), diminutive of crātis (“hurdle, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *kor(ə)t-, *krāt- (“to weave, twist, wattle; wicker”).

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. (Jersey) grill

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

gril m inan (genitive singular grilu, nominative plural grily, genitive plural grilov, declension pattern of dub)

1. grill, barbecue

Declension

Related terms

• grilovať

References

• “gril”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

Noun

gril (definite accusative grili, plural griller)

1. grill (barbecue)

Declension

Synonyms

• ızgara

References

• “gril”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English grill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

gril m (plural griliau)

1. grill, broiler

Derived terms

• grilio (“to grill, to broil”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gril”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies