sili

See also: Sili, sílí, sǐlì, sīlì, šili, šíli, šílí, and Şili

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chilli.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: si‧li
• IPA^(key): /ˈsili/

Noun

sili

1. (Naga) chili pepper

   Synonym: lada

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chilli.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: si‧li
• IPA^(key): /ˈsili/, [ˈs̪i.l̪ɪ]

Noun

sili

1. Capsicum; a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
2. the fruit of these plants; a chili pepper or bell pepper

Czech

Alternative forms

• seli (participle)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɪlɪ]

Verb

sili

1. animate masculine plural past participle of sít

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

sili

1. hot pepper

Fijian

Verb

sili

1. To bathe.

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /síː.lìː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [síː.lìː]

Noun

sīlī̀ m (plural sīlī̀, possessed form sīlìn)

1. Alternative form of silin

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.li/
• Rhymes: -ili
• Syllabification: sì‧li

Noun

sili m

1. plural of silo

Anagrams

• -lisi, Lisi, lisi

Karao

Noun

sili

1. hot pepper

Kavalan

Noun

sili

1. hot pepper

Latvian

Noun

sili m

1. nominative plural form of sils
2. vocative plural form of sils

Romanian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic силити (siliti), from Proto-Slavic *sila (“force”).

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

a sili (third-person singular present silește, past participle silit) 4th conj.

1. to force someone
2. (reflexive) to try one's best

Conjugation

    conjugation of sili (fourth conjugation, -esc- infix)

infinitive			a sili
gerund			silind
past participle			silit
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	silesc	silești	silește	silim	siliți	silesc
	imperfect	sileam	sileai	silea	sileam	sileați	sileau
	simple perfect	silii	siliși	sili	silirăm	silirăți	siliră
	pluperfect	silisem	siliseși	silise	siliserăm	siliserăți	siliseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să silesc	să silești	să silească	să silim	să siliți	să silească
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		silește			siliți
	negative		nu sili			nu siliți

Samoan

Adjective

sili

1. best; highest; superior; noble

Derived terms

• silisili

Verb

sili

1. To ask

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sili (Cyrillic spelling сили)

1. dative/locative singular of sila

Verb

sili (Cyrillic spelling сили)

1. inflection of siliti:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English seal.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Noun

sili (n class, plural sili)

1. seal (A pinniped, particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.)

Verb

sili

1. first-person singular present negative of -la

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish chili, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

Alternative forms

• sile

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: si‧li
• IPA^(key): /ˈsili/, [ˈsi.lɪ]
• IPA^(key): /ˈsile/, [ˈsi.le] (colloquial)

Noun

sili

1. chili pepper; pepper (plant and fruit)

Derived terms

• sili-silihan
• silihan
• siling-bilog
• siling-haba
• siling-labuyo
• siling-lara
• siling-panigang
• siling-paraka
• siling-pasiti
• siling-pukinggan
• siling-pula
• sinilihan

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: si‧li
• IPA^(key): /siˈli/, [sɪˈli]

Noun

silí

1. winnowing to separate husked rice from the unhusked rice (on a basket tray)

Derived terms

• ipagsili
• magsili
• silihin

 

Further reading

• “sili”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018

Turkish

Etymology

From Common Turkic *silig (“clean, pure, beautiful”), from Proto-Turkic *sīl- (“to clean, purify”). Cognate with Tatar сылу (sılu), Kazakh сұлу (sūlu), Kyrgyz сулуу (suluu), Bashkir һылыу (hılıw), Uzbek suluv (“beautiful, handsome”), etc.

Adjective

sili

1. (dated) clean, pure
2. (dated) chaste, virtuous

Related terms

• silmek
• -ik

References

• sili in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Tuvaluan

Verb

sili

1. To ask.

Waray-Waray

Noun

sili

1. (anatomy) the penis

Yogad

Noun

sili

1. chilli