zile

See also: Zile, zīle, zīlē, žile, and žíle

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish زیل (zil), زل (zil) (Turkish zil).

Noun

zíle f (plural zile, definite zilja, definite plural zilet)

1. bell

   Synonyms: këmborë, cigremë, cingare, çakë

Declension

Declension of zile

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	zile	zilja	zile	zilet
accusative		zilen
dative	zileje	ziles	zileve	zileve
ablative			zilesh

Synonyms

• këmbanë

Further reading

• “zile”, in FMGJSH: Fjalor i madh i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2026
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “zile”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Meyer, G. (1891), “ziľe”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 485

Haitian Creole

Alternative forms

• il, zil

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): /zile/

Noun

zile

1. island

References

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, pages 20, 207

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzile]

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Noun

zile f pl

1. plural of zi

Swahili

Adjective

zile

1. n class_(X) inflected form of -le