zil

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See also: Zil, žil, and žíl

English

Noun

zil (plural zils)

  1. Alternative form of zill (kind of cymbal)

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Anagrams

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French îles. See zil#Haitian Creole for more.

Noun

zil

  1. island

Synonyms

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French île (“island”). In French, the plural form îles is commonly preceded by a determiner- such as aux, les or mes- whose final s or x is pronounced /z/ before vowels (and is otherwise silent). As a result, îles was reanalyzed in Haitian Creole as beginning with /z/.

Pronunciation

Noun

zil

  1. island

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French îles. In French, the plural word îles is commonly preceded by a word, such as aux, les or mes, whose final s or x is not pronounced except in front of vowels, where it is pronounced /z/. As a result, îles was reanalyzed as having /z/ at the beginning..

Noun

zil

  1. island

Derived terms

Romagnol

FWOTD – 10 May 2013

Etymology

From Latin caelum.

Pronunciation

Noun

zil m

  1. sky
    • November 2012, Augusto Ancarani, Bon Nadel in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 5:
      In zil u gn’ era l’ombra d’una stèla;
      In the sky there wasn’t even a shadow of a star;

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish زل (zil), perhaps from Persian زیر (zir).

Noun

zil (definite accusative zili, plural ziller)

  1. (door) bell
  2. cymbal

References

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English self, from Old English self.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

zil

  1. self

Derived terms

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 81
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