Nile

See also: nile and nilé

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɪl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪl

Proper noun

the Nile

1. A large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world.
   • 1844, Pierre Henri Larcher, William Desborough Cooley, Larcher's notes on Herodotus

     The seven mouths of the Nile then, from east to west, are the Pelusian, the Mendesian, the Bucolic, the Sebennytic, the Saïtic, the Bolbitine, and the Canopic. Such is the account of Heredotus.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Blue Nile
• denial is not a river in Egypt
• Nile bird

• Nile goose
• White Nile

Translations

river

• Afrikaans: Nyl, Nylrivier
• Albanian: Nili
• Amharic: አባይ (am) (ʾäbay)
• Arabic: اَلنِّيل (ar) m (an-nīl)
• Aramaic:
• Armenian: Նեղոս (hy) (Neġos)
• Azerbaijani: Nil (az)
• Basque: Nilo
• Belarusian: Ніл m (Nil)
• Bengali: নীলনদ (nilonod)
• Breton: Nil
• Bulgarian: Нил m (Nil)
• Burmese: နိုင်းမြစ် (nuing:mrac)
• Catalan: Nil (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尼羅河／尼罗河 (zh) (Níluóhé), 尼罗河 (zh) (Níluó hé)

• Czech: Nil (cs) m
• Danish: Nilen c
• Dutch: Nijl (nl) m
• Egyptian: (ḥꜥpj m), (jtrw m)
• Esperanto: Nilo (eo)
• Estonian: Niilus (et)
• Faroese: Nílá f
• Finnish: Niili (fi)
• French: Nil (fr) m

  Old French: Nil m

• Galician: Nilo (gl) m
• Georgian: ნილოსი (nilosi)
• German: Nil (de) m
• Greek: Νείλος (el) m (Neílos)

  Ancient: Νεῖλος m (Neîlos)

  Syriac: ܢܝܠܘܣ (Nīlōs)

• Hausa: Nil
• Hebrew: נִילוּס (nilus), יְאוֹר (he) m (y'ór), שיחור \ שִׁחוֹר m (shikhór), נְהַר מִצְרַיִם m (n'har mitsráyim)
• Hindi: नील (hi) (nīl)
• Hungarian: Nílus (hu)
• Icelandic: Níl f
• Indonesian: Nil
• Irish: An Níl f
• Italian: Nilo (it) m
• Japanese: ナイル川 (Nairu-gawá)
• Kannada: ನೈಲ್ (nail)
• Kazakh: Ніл (Nıl)
• Korean: 나일 강 (Nail gang)
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• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: Нил (Nil)
• Latin: Nīlus m
• Latvian: Nīla f
• Lithuanian: Nilas m
• Macedonian: Нил m (Nil)
• Malay: Nil
• Malayalam: നൈൽ നദി (nail nadi)
• Manx: Yn Neel
• Marathi: नाईल f (nāīl)
• Navajo: Náál
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Nilen m

  Nynorsk: Nilen m

• Occitan: Nil (oc) m
• Old Norse: Níl f
• Persian: نیل (fa) (nil)
• Polish: Nil (pl) m
• Portuguese: Nilo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਨੀਲ (nīl)
• Romanian: Nil m
• Romansch: Nil
• Russian: Нил (ru) m (Nil)
• Scottish Gaelic: Nile f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нил m

  Roman: Nil (sh) m

• Slovak: Níl m
• Slovene: Nil (sl) m
• Somali: Niil
• Spanish: Nilo (es) m
• Swedish: Nilen (sv)
• Tagalog: Nilo
• Tajik: Нил (Nil)
• Tamil: நைல் (nail)
• Telugu: నైలు నది (nailu nadi)
• Thai: แม่น้ำไนล์ (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-nail)
• Turkish: Nil (tr)
• Turkmen: Nil
• Ukrainian: Ніл m (Nil)
• Uzbek: Nil
• Vietnamese: Sông Nin
• Welsh: Nîl
• West Frisian: Nyl

See also

• Branches of the Nile:
  • Bolbitine (Bolbitic)
  • Bucolic (Phatnitic, Phatnic, Phatmetic, Athribitic)
  • Canopic (Herakleotic, Heracleotic, Naucratitic)
  • Mendesian (Tanitic, Busiritic)
  • Pelusian (Bubastic)
  • Saïtic
  • Sebennytic (Thermutiac)

Anagrams

• LEIN, LINE, Line, Neil, Niel, lien, line