ili

ili

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ili Turki.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ili Turki terms

ili

1. (transitive) to buy

• Robert Busenitz & Daniel Bradbury (2016). Balantak Dictionary – ili. SIL International.

• Hyphenation: i‧li

ili

1. a cliff; a precipice

From French ils or Latin illī, plus the i of personal pronouns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈili/

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• Rhymes: -ili
• Syllabification: i‧li

ili (third person plural, accusative ilin, possessive ilia)

1. they; them

• iŝi

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.li/

From Proto-Polynesian *hili (“to place or be placed atop something”).

ili(intransitive)

1. to run aground
2. to run over
3. (of the sun) to set
4. (figurative) to befall

• hoʻīli (causative)
• ilina (“tomb”)

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ili

1. (intransitive) to inherit

• hoʻīli (causative)
• ilina (“heir”)

ili

1. inheritance

• ili in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

ilu (“he, him”) +‎ -i (“-s; plural”)

ili pl

1. they, them (masculine)

• li (“they, them”)
• eli (“they, them”) (feminine)
• oli (“they, them”) (neuter)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔili/ [ˈʔi.li]
• Hyphenation: i‧li

íli (plural il-ili, Kur-itan spelling ᜁᜎᜒ)

1. village
2. town

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.li/
• Rhymes: -ili
• Hyphenation: ì‧li

ili

1. plural of ilo

ili m

1. plural of ilio

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

• IPA^(key): /ili/

ili

1. (copula) to be

   Ur yettili wergaz d izem, ulamma tella yemma-s d tasedda.

   A man is not a lion, even if his mother was a lioness.

2. (auxiliary) to be (forms progressive constructions)

   Lliɣ ttɛummeɣ. ― I was swimming.

   Ad tiliḍ ttetteḍ kra. ― You'll be eating something.

3. to exist

   Yella rebbi! ― God exists!

• The predicate noun phrase of this verb is often preceded by the copular predicative particle d.
• As a progressive auxiliary, ili is conjugated in the perfective or aorist. The modified verb is in the imperfective and agrees with the same subject as the copula.

• Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal‎^[1], retrieved 2025
• Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France

ili

1. water

   ili nung

   (multiple individual) waters (e.g. in separate pails)

• Marian Klamer, The Alor-Pantar languages: History and Typology (2014, →ISBN

ili

1. (intransitive) to be clean
2. (intransitive) to be clear

• paili

• Marian Klamer (1998), A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 179

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔili/ [ˈʔiː.li̞]
  • Rhymes: -ili
• (Sagada, parts of Sabangan) IPA^(key): /ˈʔiri/ [ˈʔiː.ri̞]
  • Rhymes: -iri
• Syllabification: i‧li

ili

1. home
2. village
3. (Baguio) homeland, referring to Mountain Province

ili

1. community where people live
2. home country

īlī n

1. dative/ablative singular of īle

īlī n

1. genitive singular of īlium

ili

1. town; barrio
2. country; nation

ili f

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of il

ili

1. to flow

• IPA^(key): /i.ˈli/, [i.ˈli]

ili

1. Beaufortia leveretti (a kind of ray-finned fish)

From Proto-Turkic *il (“front side”). Cognate with Yakut илин (ilin, “front (side)”). Related to Turkish ileri and ilk.

• (Xunhua, Hualong, Qinghai; Gansu; Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /ili/
• (Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /ilæ/

ili

1. front (side)
2. before

• iliden (“from the beginning”)
• iligi

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “ili, i:li, ele, eli, illi”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 337
• 马伟 (Ma Wei) (2016), “ili”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 青海师范大学 (Qinghai Normal University), Unpublished finalized project manuscript (国家社会科学基金项目结项稿, 定稿; National Social Science Fund of China), pages 261, 299
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “ilɛ-dɛn”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[2], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 118
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985), “ili, ili jɑnɘ”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[3], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 118

From i + li.

• IPA^(key): /îli/

ȉli (Cyrillic spelling и̏ли)

1. or
2. either
3. otherwise, or else

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

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ili

1. in order that, so that

ili

1. village; town