zile

See also: Zile, zīle, zīlē, žile, and žíle

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish زیل (zil), زل (zil) (Turkish zil).

Noun

zíle f (plural zile, definite zilja, definite plural zilet)

  1. bell
    Synonyms: këmborë, cigremë, cingare, çakë

Declension

Declension of zile
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative zile zilja zile zilet
accusative zilen
dative zileje ziles zileve zileve
ablative zilesh

Synonyms

Further reading

  • zile”, in FMGJSH: Fjalor i madh i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2026
  • Newmark, Leonard (1999), “zile”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[1]
  • Meyer, G. (1891), “ziľe”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 485

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French les iles (the islands) with metathesis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zile/

Noun

zile

  1. island
    Synonym: il

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈzile]
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Noun

zile f pl

  1. plural of zi

Swahili

Adjective

zile

  1. n class(X) inflected form of -le