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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English, from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“stone, rock”), from Proto-Indo-European *kolən-, *koləm- (“top, hill, rock”). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Icelandic hóll (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas, Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.
Pronunciation [edit]
hill (plural hills)
- An elevated location smaller than a mountain.
- The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.
- A sloping road.
- You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.
- (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
- (US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
- a hill of corn or potatoes
- (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
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Translations [edit]
elevated location
- Albanian: kodër (sq) m
- Arabic: تل (ar) (tall) m
- Egyptian Arabic: تل (tall) m
- Armenian: բլուր (hy) (blur)
- Asturian: cerru (ast) m
- Azeri: təpə (az)
- Baluchi: دک (dikk)
- Basque: mendixka (eu)
- Belarusian: пагорак (be) (pahórak) m
- Bulgarian: хълм (bg) (hǎlm) m
- Catalan: puig (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 小山 (cmn) (xiǎoshān), 山丘 (cmn) (shānqiū)
- Cornish: bre (kw) f
- Crimean Tatar: bayır
- Czech: kopec (cs) m, vrch (cs) m, pahorek (cs) m
- Dalmatian: muncial m
- Danish: bakke (da) c
- Dutch: heuvel (nl) m
- Esperanto: monteto (eo)
- Estonian: mägi (et), küngas (et)
- Fijian: buke (fj)
- Finnish: mäki (fi), kukkula (fi), kumpu (fi)
- French: colline (fr) f
- Galician: cerro (gl) m, castrelo (gl) m, cuíña (gl) f, lomba (gl) f, lombeiro (gl) m, penela (gl) f, penelo (gl) m, montículo (gl) m, touticeira (gl) f, toutizo (gl) m
- Georgian: ბორა (ka) (bora), სერი (ka) (seri), ბორცვი (ka) (borc'vi)
- German: Hügel (de) m
- Goguryeo: 押 (ap)
- Greek: λόφος (el) (lófos) m, ύψωμα (el) (ýpsoma) n
- Greenlandic: bakki (kl)
- Hebrew: גבעה (he) f, תל (he) m
- Hindi: पहाड़ी (hi) (pahāṛī) m, पसंद (hi) (pahāṛ) m
- Hungarian: domb (hu), kisebb hegy (hu)
- Icelandic: hæð (is) f, hlíð (is) f, brekka (is) f, hóll (is) m
- Ido: kolino (io)
- Indonesian: bukit (id)
- Inuktitut: kingaq (iu)
- Irish: cnoc (ga) m
- Italian: collina (it) f
- Japanese: 丘 (ja) (おか, oka), 小山 (ja) (こやま, koyama)
- Jèrriais: mont m
- Korean: 언덕 (ko) (eondeok)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: گرد (ku)
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- Latin: collis (la) m, mons (la) m, clivus (la) m
- Latvian: paugurs (lv) m
- Lithuanian: kalva (lt) f
- Luxembourgish: Hiwwel (lb) m
- Macedonian: рид (mk) (rid) m
- Malay: bukit (ms)
- Malayalam: കുന്ന് (ml) (kunnu), മല (ml) (mala)
- Maori: puke (mi), rangaranga (mi), rangaranga (mi)
- Marathi: टेकडी (mr) (tekadi) f
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Neapolitan: toppa
- Norwegian: ås (no) m
- Old Church Slavonic: брѣгъ (brěgŭ) m
- Old English: hyll (ang)
- Old Frisian: hegel
- Persian: تپه (fa) (tape)
- Polish: wzgórze (pl) n, pagórek (pl) m, kopiec (pl) m
- Portuguese: monte (pt) m, colina (pt) f, morro (pt) m (1), ladeira (pt) f (2), barranco (pt) m
- Potawatomi: kwetak
- Romanian: deal (ro) m and f
- Russian: холм (ru) (xolm) m, горка (ru) (górka) f, высота (ru) (vysotá) f, пригорок (ru) (prigórok) m
- Scots: hill
- Scottish Gaelic: cnoc (gd) m, monadh (gd) m, sliabh (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: брдо (sh) n, брег (sh) m / бријег (sh) m
- Roman: brdo (sh) n, breg (sh) m / brijeg (sh) m
- Slovak: kopec (sk) m, vrch (sk) m, vŕšok (sk) m
- Slovene: hrib (sl) m
- Spanish: cerro (es) m, loma (es) f, colina (es) f
- Swahili: kilima (sw)
- Swedish: backe (sv) c, kulle (sv) c
- Tamil: குன்று (ta) (kundru)
- Taos: ną́nemą
- Telugu: కొండ (te) (komDa), గుట్ట (te) (guTTa)
- Turkish: tepe (tr)
- Ukrainian: пагорб (uk) (páhorb) m, пагорок (uk) (pahórok) m
- Urdu: پہاڑی (ur) (pahāṛī) m
- Vietnamese: đồi (vi)
- Volapük: lubel (vo), (sand) sabalubel (vo), (earth) tailalubel (vo), (rubble, waste) sturotalubel (vo)
- Welsh: bryn (cy) m
- West Frisian: heuvel (fy)
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steepness
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- Japanese: 傾き (ja) (かたむき, katamuki)
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heap of earth surrounding a plant
baseball: pitcher's mound
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