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English
Etymology 1
Noun
hile (plural hiles)
- (botany, archaic) Alternative form of hilum
References
Etymology 2
Probably a collateral form of ail (“awn of barley”).
Noun
hile (plural hiles)
- (West Country, obsolete) A bundle of sheaves of wheat (or similar crop) stacked vertically to dry; a stook.
Verb
hile (third-person singular simple present hiles, present participle hiling, simple past and past participle hiled)
- (West Country, obsolete) To form sheaves into a hile.
Anagrams
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حیله (hile, “artifice, stratagem, ruse”), itself from Arabic حِيلَة (ḥīla, “trick, artifice, ruse”).
Noun
hile f (plural hile, definite hilja, definite plural hilet)
- trick, cheat
References
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “hile”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 201
Further reading
- “hile”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006
Finnish
Etymology
Probably hil- + -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhileˣ/,
- Rhymes: -ile
- Syllabification(key): hi‧le
- Hyphenation(key): hi‧le
Noun
hile
- (usually in the plural) small ice crystal, often found floating in air
- glitter
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French
Etymology
From Latin hilum.
Pronunciation
Noun
hile m (plural hiles)
- hilum
Further reading
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
hile
- alternative form of hele (“heel”)
Etymology 2
Noun
hile
- alternative form of yle
Spanish
Verb
hile
- inflection of hilar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish حیله, from Arabic حيلة (ḥīla, “trickery”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hi(ː)ˈle/
- Hyphenation: hi‧le
- Rhymes: -lɛ
Noun
hile (definite accusative hileyi, plural hileler)
- deceit, ruse, trick
- adulteration (with the intent of deceiving buyers)
Declension
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- hileli (“adulterated; dishonest, fraudulent”)
References
Yola
Noun
hile
- alternative form of hele (“hill”)
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 74