elim

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See also: Elim and élim

Akolet[edit]

Noun[edit]

elim

  1. woman

Further reading[edit]

  • ABVD, citing Hiroko Sato

Nzadi[edit]

Noun[edit]

elim (plural elim)

  1. The African brown knifefish.

Further reading[edit]

  • Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish الیم (elim), from Arabic أَلِيم (ʔalīm).

Adjective[edit]

elim (dated)

  1. painful
  2. sad, grievous

References[edit]

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “elim”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “الیم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 192
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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