silet

See also: šílet

Indonesian

Etymology

From English Gillette, the name of a popular company producing safety razors, named after their inventor and the company's founder, King C. Gillette. One of the earliest genericized trademarks in Indonesian, since it followed the French pronunciation of the surname (/ʒi.lɛt/) instead of modern English one (/dʒɪ.ˈlɛt/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsilɛt/ [ˈsi.lɛt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ilɛt
• Syllabification: si‧let

Noun

silèt (plural silet-silet)

1. razor blade (a thin piece of steel with a sharp edge that can be fitted into a razor)

   Hypernym: pisau cukur

Derived terms

• bersilet
• menyilet
• penyiletan

Descendants

• → Ternate: silet

Further reading

• “silet”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Verb

silet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of sileō

Maltese

Root
s-l-t
6 terms

Etymology

From Arabic سَلَتَ (salata).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.lɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɪlɛt

Verb

silet (imperfect jislet, past participle mislut, verbal noun slit)

1. to extract, draw out, pull out
2. to thin, to make something thin
3. to detach
4. to take from [with minn]

   Kliem mislut mid-diskors ta’ George Vella. ― Words taken from the speech of George Vella.

5. (lil + pronoun + ruħ/qalb + pronoun) to affect, to move

   kliemek silitli ruħi ― Your words moved me.

Conjugation

Conjugation of silet (Form I)

positive forms
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	slitt	slitt	silet	slitna	slittu	siltu
	f			siltet
imperfect	m	nislet	tislet	jislet	nisiltu	tisiltu	jisiltu
	f			tislet
imperative			islet			isiltu
negative forms
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	slittx	slittx	silet	slitniex	slittux	siltux
	f			siltitx
imperfect	m	nislitx	tislitx	jislitx	nisiltux	tisiltux	jisiltux
	f			tislitx
imperative			tislitx			tisiltux

Ternate

silet

Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian silet, from English Gillette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsi.let]

Noun

silet

1. razor blade

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh