tili

From the first syllables of tiger and liger.

tili (plural tilis)

1. A hybrid animal resulting from backcrossing a liger with a tiger.

• ITIL

Probably borrowed from Old Swedish (planko) thili (“wooden boards”).^[1] Accounts were once recorded on tally sticks, which resemble wooden boards. Alternatively related to tila.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtili/,
• Rhymes: -ili
• Hyphenation^(key): ti‧li

tili

1. account (in a bank, a registry of pecuniary transactions; on a service, an authorization to use a service)

   pankkitili ― bank account

   käyttäjätili ― user account

• “tili”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• liti

From Arabic طَلْي (ṭaly).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪ.lɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪ

tili m (instance noun tilja)

1. verbal noun of tila: varnishing

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.lɪ/
• Rhymes: -iːlɪ

tili

1. plural of tila

Borrowed from Chinese 地理 (dìlǐ, “geography”).

• IPA^(key): /ti.ˈli/,

tili

1. geography

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tiˈliʔ/
• Rhymes: -iʔ
• Syllabification: ti‧li

tilî (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜎᜒ)

1. shriek; sharp, piercing cry; shriek

   Synonyms: palahat, irit, palirit

• til-i

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtili/
• Rhymes: -ili
• Syllabification: ti‧li

tili (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜎᜒ) (obsolete)

1. state of permanency; unchanged condition

• No longer used on its own except in derived terms.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tiˈli/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ti‧li

tilí (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜎᜒ)

1. state of being unable to move in shock or amazement

• “tili”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1293.
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot

• liit

From ti- + Proto-Oceanic *lima, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

• IPA^(key): /tili/

tili

1. five

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry tili.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry tili.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ti‧li

tili

1. (transitive) to bind around something

From Proto-Polynesian *tili. Cognates include Maori tiri and Samoan tili.

tili

1. A certain type of fishing net.

tili

1. (intransitive) to cast this fishing net

tili

1. messenger that brings emergency messages

tili

1. (intransitive) to hurry

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 385

tili

1. third-person possessive of til (“language”)