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English
Pronunciation
Noun
mil (plural mils )
An angular mil , a unit of angular measurement equal to 1 ⁄ 6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1 ⁄ 6000 and 1 ⁄ 6300 are used in other countries.
A unit of measurement equal to 1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
A former subdivision (1 ⁄ 1000 ) of the Maltese lira .
( informal , plural "mil") Abbreviation of million .
2009 , Bob Frey, The DVD Murders , page 39 :The cheapest shack in this part of the woods would probably set the buyer back at least a couple of mil .
2010 September, Galen Gondolfi, "Idea Fun(d)", St. Louis magazine , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 79:
You can get things done without money, but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, and $10 mil is a good starting point.
( informal ) Clipping of milliliter ; mL .
Derived terms
Translations
See also
Adjective
mil (not comparable )
Clipping of military .
Derived terms
Anagrams
Aragonese
Etymology
Akin to Spanish mil , from Latin mīlle .
Numeral
mil
thousand
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin mīlle .
Numeral
mil (indeclinable )
one thousand ; 1000
mil llobos ― one thousand wolves
mil vaques ― one thousand cows
Usage notes
In compound numbers, mil does not inflect or change:
mil dos ― one thousand two
mil trenta y nueve ― one thousand thirty-nine
tres mil ― three thousand
venti mil ― twenty thousand
Breton
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Breton mil , from Proto-Brythonic *mil , from Latin mīlia . Cognate with Cornish mil , Welsh mil , Irish míle .
Numeral
mil
thousand
Etymology 2
From Middle Breton mil , from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish myl , Welsh mil ), from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol , Scottish Gaelic míl , Manx meeyl ), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- ( “ small animal” ” ) .
Compare Ancient Greek μῆλον ( mêlon , “ lamb ” ) , Armenian մալ ( mal , “ sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock ” ) , Central Kurdish ماڵ ( mall , “ livestock ” ) , Dutch maal ( “ calf ” ) .
Noun
mil m (plural miled )
( rare ) animal
Synonyms: aneval , loen
Mutation
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Catalan
Etymology
From Old Catalan mil , from Latin mīlle , from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī , from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ ( “ one thousand ” ) .
Pronunciation
Numeral
mil m or f
( cardinal number ) thousand
Noun
mil m (plural mils )
thousand
Further reading
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish mil , from Old Spanish mil , mill , from Latin mīlle .
Pronunciation
Numeral
mil
thousand
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil .
Chavacano
Etymology
Inherited from Spanish mil ( “ thousand ” ) .
Numeral
mil
thousand
Dalmatian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f , from Latin mel n .
Noun
mil m
honey
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed through Low German , from Latin mil(l)ia (passum ) "thousand (steps)."
Pronunciation
Noun
mil
mile , unit of length of varying value
Declension
Derived terms
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mīlle . Doublet of mejlo .
Pronunciation
Numeral
mil
thousand
Estonian
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈmil/ ,
Hyphenation: mil
Etymology 1
Clipping of millal .
Conjunction
mil
when
Kord tuleb päev, mil tuleb minna. There will once be a day when we have to go.
Etymology 2
Clipping of millel .
Adverb
mil (not comparable )
that
Tänaval oli auto, mil olid punased triibud. There was a car on the street that had red stripes.
French
Etymology
From Latin milium .
Pronunciation
Noun
mil m (plural mils )
( now dialectal ) millet
Synonym: millet
Further reading
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin mīlle .
Numeral
mil
thousand
Galician
Carro
Carro
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈmil/
Rhymes: -il
Hyphenation: mil
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese mil , from Latin mīlle , from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī , from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ ( “ one thousand ” ) .
Numeral
mil (indeclinable )
one thousand ; 1000
Etymology 2
1474. From Vulgar Latin *medianile , from Latin mediānus . Compare the cognates mión and molo .[ 1]
Noun
mil m (plural miles )
central piece of the Galician cart wheel
Synonyms: mión , miúl , molo
1474 , A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática , Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 66 :Iten, preçaron hun rrodisioe dous miilles de carro em noventa maravedis Item, they appraised a water wheel and two wheel centers of a cart in ninety maravedis
References
Ernesto Xosé González Seoane , María Álvarez de la Granja , Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006 –2022 ) “mil ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006 –2018 ) “miil ”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
“mil ” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006 –2013 ), “mil ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language ] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , Ernesto Xosé González Seoane , María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003 –2018 ), “mil ”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014 –2024 ), “mil ”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega , →ISSN
Gamilaraay
Noun
mil
eye
Haitian Creole
Pronunciation
Noun
mil
thousand
mile ( measure of distance )
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Esperanto mil , French mille , Italian mille , Spanish mil , from Latin mīlle .
Pronunciation
Numeral
mil
thousand
Ilocano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish mil .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈmil/
Hyphenation: mil
Numeral
mil
thousand
Synonym: ribo
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Dutch mijl , from Middle Dutch mile , ultimately from Latin mīlia .
Noun
mil (plural mil -mil , first-person possessive milku , second-person possessive milmu , third-person possessive milnya )
English or American mile , a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.6 km
( historical ) mijl , Dutch mile or league , a unit of distance equivalent to about 5–6 km
milepost , milestone , km marker
Synonyms: batu , pal , tonggak
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From English mail , from Middle English male , from Anglo-Norman male , Old French male ( “ bag, wallet ” ) , from Frankish *malha ( “ bag ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *malhō ( “ bag, pouch ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *molko- ( “ leather pouch ” ) .
Noun
mil (plural mil -mil , first-person possessive milku , second-person possessive milmu , third-person possessive milnya )
( colloquial ) mail : the material conveyed by the postal service.
Further reading
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish mil ,[ 1] from Proto-Celtic *meli , from Proto-Indo-European *mélid . Cognate with Latin mel , Ancient Greek μέλι ( méli ) . Akin to milis and blas .
Pronunciation
Noun
mil f (genitive singular meala )
honey
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical
Lenition
Eclipsis
mil
mhil
not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
References
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “mil ”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906 ) A Dialect of Donegal , Cambridge University Press, § 99 , page 39
Further reading
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ) “mil ”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
MacBain, Alexander , Mackay, Eneas (1911 ) “mil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language , Stirling, →ISBN
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959 ) “mil ”, in English-Irish Dictionary , An Gúm
“mil ”, in New English-Irish Dictionary , Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese mil .
Numeral
mil
thousand (1000)
Ladin
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f , from Latin mel n .
Noun
mil f (uncountable )
honey
References
AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Louisiana Creole
Etymology
Inherited from French mille ( “ thousand ” ) .
Pronunciation
Numeral
mil
thousand
Lule
Pronoun
mil
you (plural)
References
Antonio Maccioni / Machoni, Arte y vocabulario de la lengua lule y tonocoté (1732)
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic مِيل ( mīl ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
mil m (dual milejn , plural mjiel or mili )
mile
Mòcheno
Etymology
From Middle High German mül , müle , from Old High German mulī , mulin , from Proto-Germanic *mulīnō , *mulīnaz , from Late Latin molīnum ( “ mill ” ) . Cognate with German Mühle , English mill .
Noun
mil f
mill
References
Ngiyambaa
Noun
mil
( anatomy ) eye
Northern Kurdish
Noun
mil ?
arm
shoulder
neck
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin milia , millia and Old Norse míla .
Noun
mil m or f (definite singular mila or milen , indefinite plural mil , definite plural milene )
( today in Norway ) a distance of 10 kilometres
gammel norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
engelsk mil - a mile , 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.
Derived terms
References
“mil” in The Bokmål Dictionary .
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin milia , millia and Old Norse míla .
Noun
mil f (definite singular mila , indefinite plural mil , definite plural milene )
( today in Norway ) a distance of 10 kilometres
gammal norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
engelsk mil - a mile , 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.
Usage notes
Indefinite plural miler was made non-standard by the spelling reform of 2012 .
Derived terms
References
“mil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin mīlle .
Numeral
mil
thousand
Further reading
Joan de Cantalausa (2006 ) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians , 2 edition, →ISBN , page 648 .
Old English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mīlia , plural of the numeral mīlle .
Pronunciation
Noun
mīl f
mile
late 9th century , translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Sardina is þrī and þrītti mīla lang, and twā and twentiġ mīla brād. Sardinia is thirty-three miles long, and twenty-two miles wide.
Declension
Declension of mīl (strong ō-stem)
Descendants
Old French
Numeral
mil
Alternative form of mile ( “ thousand ” )
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *meli n , from Proto-Indo-European *mélit .
Noun
mil f (genitive melo )
honey
c. 800 , Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7d 9
Hi sunt tra ↄ·ricc frissa lind serb in chúrsactha lase foruillecta beóil in chalich di mil cosse anall... Herein, then, he comes into contact with the bitter drink of the reproval, when the lips of the chalice have hitherto been smeared with honey ...
Inflection
Feminine i-stem
Singular
Dual
Plural
Nominative
mil
—
—
Vocative
mil
—
—
Accusative
mil N
—
—
Genitive
melo H , mela H
—
—
Dative
mil L
—
—
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
H = triggers aspiration
L = triggers lenition
N = triggers nasalization
Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation
Radical
Lenition
Nasalization
mil also mmil after a proclitic ending in a vowel
mil pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
Further reading
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Spanish mil and Portuguese mil and Kabuverdianu mil .
Numeral
mil
thousand (1000)
Pipil
Etymology
Compare Classical Nahuatl milpan .
Noun
mil
cornfield
Further reading
Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador . Mouton De Gruyter.
Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R. Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao .
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese mil , from Latin mīlle , from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī , from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ ( “ one thousand ” ) .
Pronunciation
Rhymes: ( Portugal ) -il , ( Brazil ) -iw
Hyphenation: mil
Adjective
mil m or f
one thousand ; a thousand; 1000
( somewhat poetic ) thousands of ( very many )
Synonyms: milhares de , um milhão de
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil .
Descendants
Romanian
Noun
mil n (plural miluri )
Obsolete form of milă .
Declension
References
mil in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a , Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish mil (genitive mela ), from Proto-Celtic *meli , from Proto-Indo-European *mélid . Cognate with Welsh mêl , Cornish mill , Breton mel , Latin mel , Greek μέλι ( méli ) , Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 ( miliþ ) , Old Armenian մեղր ( mełr ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
mil f (genitive singular mealach or meala , plural mealan )
honey
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
Edward Dwelly (1911 ) “mil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary ] , 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “mil ”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *milъ . Cognate with Polish miły .
Pronunciation
Adjective
mȋl (comparative milȇjši , superlative nȁjmilȇjši )
kind
dear
Inflection
Further reading
“mil ”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish mil or Old Spanish mill , from Latin mīlle , from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī , from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ ( “ one thousand ” ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈmil/
Rhymes: -il
Syllabification: mil
Numeral
mil
thousand
Usage notes
When pluralized as a specific number, the form mil is still used:
dos mil pesos ― two thousand pesos
cien mil pesos ― one hundred thousand pesos
Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
mil m (plural miles )
( chiefly in the plural ) thousand ( 1000 units of something ) ( usually in an indefinite sense )
Gané muchos miles de dólares. I earned many thousands of dollars
Further reading
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed through Low German , from Latin mil(l)ia (passum ) "thousand (steps)."
Pronunciation
Noun
mil c
( after 1889 ) Unit of length, equal to 10,000 meters
Synonyms: nymil , myriameter
2020 February 19, Maria Dahlin, “Sverige prisas för 2+1-väg [Sweden is praised for 2+1 road ]”, in Vi bilägare :IRAP rekommenderar nu bland annat Indien och Mexiko att bygga 2+1-vägar och tar som exempel att 93.000 liv skulle kunna räddas på 20 år i Indien om 1.750 mil mötesväg gjordes om till 2+1-väg. IRAP is now recommending countries like India and Mexico to build 2+1 roads and cites an example that 93,000 lives could be saved over 20 years in India if 17,500 kilometres of two-way roads were converted to 2+1 roads. (literally, “1,750 miles ”)
( between 1699 and 1889 ) Unit of length, equal to 10,688.54 meters
Synonym: landmil
1831 , Fredrik Cederborgh , Berättelse om John Hall , page 5 :För att kunna åtkomma dylikt, wäl rätt artigt men föga räntegifwande kram, beslöt han, att, med en särdeles wäl försedd kaßa, resa till Danmarks hufwudstad, ungefär trettio mil aflägsen från deß födelseort Götheborg. In order to be able to access such, indeed quite polite but hardly interest bearing hug, he decided, with a particularly well-stocked purse, to travel to Denmark's capital city, about thirty miles distant from their birthplace, Gothenburg.
Declension
Derived terms
See also
References
Anagrams
Tagalog
Tagalog numbers (edit )
10,000
← 100
← 900
1,000
1,100 →
2,000 →
100
Cardinal : sanlibo Spanish cardinal : mil Ordinal : ikalibo , panlibo , ikasanlibo , pansanlibo Ordinal abbreviation : ika-1000 , pang-1000 Adverbial : makalibo , makalilibo , makasanlibo Multiplier : sanlibong ibayo Distributive : libo-libo , panlibo , tigsanlibo , sanlibuhan , sanli-sanlibo Collective : libo Restrictive : sasanlibo Fractional : kasanlibo , sangkasanlibo , ikasanlibo , saikasanlibo
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish mil , from Latin mīlle .
Pronunciation
Numeral
mil (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜎ᜔ )
thousand
Synonym: libo
Further reading
“mil ”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph , Manila, 2018
Anagrams
Tatar
Noun
mil
( archaic ) a unit of length: 1 mil = 7 çaqrım = 7.467 km (see Obsolete Tatar units of measurement )
Declension
Turkish
Pronunciation
Noun
mil (definite accusative mili , plural miller )
mile (measure of length)
Volapük
Numeral
mil
thousand
Vurës
Etymology
Borrowed from French mille , from Latin mīlle .[ 1]
Pronunciation
Noun
mil
One thousand vatu ( currency of Vanuatu ) .
References
Welsh
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Welsh mil , from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish myl , Breton mil ), from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol , Scottish Gaelic míl , Manx meeyl ), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- ( “ small animal” ” ) .
Compare Ancient Greek μῆλον ( mêlon , “ lamb ” ) , Armenian մալ ( mal , “ sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock ” ) , Central Kurdish ماڵ ( mall , “ livestock ” ) , Dutch maal ( “ calf ” ) .
Noun
mil m (plural milod )
animal , beast , creature
vermin ( animal not normally eaten by people )
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Welsh mil , from Proto-Brythonic *mil , from Latin mīlia . Cognate with Cornish mil , Breton mil , Irish míle .
Numeral
mil f (plural miloedd )
( cardinal number ) one thousand
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mil ”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Wiradjuri
Noun
mil
( anatomy ) eye
Yagara
Noun
mil
eye
References
Yapese
Verb
mil
to run