zil

See also: Zil, žil, and žíl

English

Noun

zil (plural zils)

1. Alternative form of zill (kind of cymbal)

See also

• Zil lane

Anagrams

• Liz

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French îles. See zil#Haitian Creole for more.

Noun

zil

1. island

Synonyms

• (Saint Lucia) lilèt

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French île (“island”). In French, the plural form îles is commonly preceded by a determiner- such as aux, les or mes- whose final s or x is pronounced /z/ before vowels (and is otherwise silent). As a result, îles was reanalyzed in Haitian Creole as beginning with /z/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zil/

Noun

zil

1. island

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French île. In French, the plural word îles is commonly preceded by a word, such as aux, les or mes, whose final s or x is not pronounced except in front of vowels, where it is pronounced /z/. As a result, îles was reanalyzed as having /z/ at the beginning.

Noun

zil

1. island

Derived terms

• zilwa (islander)

Romagnol

FWOTD – 10 May 2013

Etymology

From Latin caelum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θil/

Noun

zil m

1. sky
   • November 2012, Augusto Ancarani, Bon Nadel in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 5:

     In zil u gn’ era l’ombra d’una stèla;

     In the sky there wasn’t even a shadow of a star;

2. heaven
   • 2024, Franco Alpini, Andrea Alpini, La Bébia In Dialét Rumagnól, Genesis 1:1:

     In te prinzipi Dio e creét i zil e la tèra.

     In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish زل (zil), perhaps from Persian زیر (zir).

Noun

zil (definite accusative zili, plural ziller)

1. (door) bell
2. cymbal

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2014-10-24) “zil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2016-12-20

Yola

Alternative forms

• zill

Etymology

From Middle English self, from Old English self. Cognate with North English sel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɪl/

Pronoun

zil

1. self

Derived terms

• meezil
• yerzel
• himzil
• itzel
• ourzels
• theezil
• aamzil

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 81