Nile

See also: nile and nilé

English

Alternative forms

• Nilus (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɪl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪl

Proper noun

(the) Nile

1. A large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world.
   • 1844, Pierre Henri Larcher, William Desborough Cooley, Larcher's notes on Herodotus:

     The seven mouths of the Nile then, from east to west, are the Pelusian, the Mendesian, the Bucolic, the Sebennytic, the Saïtic, the Bolbitine, and the Canopic. Such is the account of Heredotus.

   • 2016 March 6, “Special Districts”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 4, via HBO:

     A river you think so little about, you don’t even realize that’s not the Nile, this is the Nile.

2. Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio, a township in Ohio, United States, named after the river.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Blue Nile
• denial is not a river in Egypt
• Nile bird
• Nile fox
• Nile goose
• West Nile encephalitis
• White Nile

Translations

river

• Afrikaans: Nyl, Nylrivier
• Albanian: Nili
• Amharic: አባይ (am) (ʾäbay)
• Arabic: اَلنِّيل (ar) m (an-nīl)
• Aramaic:
• Armenian: Նեղոս (hy) (Neġos)
• Azerbaijani: Nil (az)
• Basque: Nilo
• Belarusian: Ніл m (Nil)
• Bengali: নীলনদ (nilonod)
• Breton: Nil
• Bulgarian: Нил m (Nil)
• Burmese: နိုင်းမြစ် (nuing:mrac)
• Catalan: Nil (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尼羅河／尼罗河 (zh) (Níluó hé)

• Coptic:

  Bohairic: Ⲫⲓⲁⲣⲟ m (Phiaro)

  Sahidic: Ⲡⲉⲓⲉⲣⲟ m (Peiero)

• Czech: Nil (cs) m
• Danish: Nilen c
• Dutch: Nijl (nl) m
• Egyptian: (ḥꜥpj m), (jtrw m)
• Esperanto: Nilo (eo)
• Estonian: Niilus (et)
• Faroese: Nílá f
• Finnish: Niili (fi)
• French: Nil (fr) m

  Old French: Nil m

• Galician: Nilo (gl) m
• Georgian: ნილოსი (nilosi)
• German: Nil (de) m
• Greek: Νείλος (el) m (Neílos)

  Ancient: Νεῖλος m (Neîlos)

  Syriac: ܢܝܠܘܣ (Nīlōs)

• Hausa: Nil
• Hebrew: נִילוּס (nilus), יְאוֹר (he) m (y'ór), שיחור \ שִׁחוֹר m (shikhór), נְהַר מִצְרַיִם m (n'har mitsráyim)
• Hindi: नील (hi) (nīl)
• Hungarian: Nílus (hu)
• Icelandic: Níl f
• Indonesian: Nil
• Irish: An Níl f
• Italian: Nilo (it) m
• Japanese: ナイル川 (Nairu-gawá)
• Kannada: ನೈಲ್ (nail)
• Kazakh: Ніл (Nıl)
• Khmer: ទន្លេ​នីល (tŭənlei-niil), នីល (niil)
• Korean: 나일 강 (Nail gang)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Nîl (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: Нил (Nil)
• Latin: Nīlus m
• Latvian: Nīla f
• Lithuanian: Nilas m
• Macedonian: Нил m (Nil)
• Malay: Nil
• Malayalam: നൈൽ നദി (nail nadi)
• Manx: Yn Neel
• Marathi: नाईल f (nāīl)
• Navajo: Náál
• Nobiin: Aman dawū (ⲁⲙⲁⲛ ⲇⲁⳣⲟ̅ⲩ̅, امان داوو)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Nilen m

  Nynorsk: Nilen m

• Occitan: Nil (oc) m
• Old Norse: Níl f
• Old Persian: 𐎱𐎡𐎼𐎠𐎺 (p-i-r-a-v /⁠Pirāva⁠/)
• Persian: نیل (fa) (nil)
• Polish: Nil (pl) m
• Portuguese: Nilo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਨੀਲ (nīl)
• Romanian: Nil m
• Romansch: Nil
• Russian: Нил (ru) m (Nil)
• Scottish Gaelic: Nile f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нил m

  Roman: Nil (sh) m

• Slovak: Níl m
• Slovene: Nil (sl) m
• Somali: Niil
• Spanish: Nilo (es) m
• Swedish: Nilen (sv)
• Tagalog: Nilo
• Tajik: Нил (Nil)
• Tamil: நைல் (nail)
• Telugu: నైలు నది (nailu nadi)
• Thai: แม่น้ำไนล์ (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-nail)
• Turkish: Nil (tr)
• Turkmen: Nil
• Ukrainian: Ніл m (Nil)
• Uzbek: Nil
• Vietnamese: Nin, Nhĩ Lô (rare)
• Welsh: Nîl
• West Frisian: Nyl

See also

• Branches of the Nile:
  • Bolbitine (Bolbitic)
  • Bucolic (Phatnitic, Phatnic, Phatmetic, Athribitic)
  • Canopic (Herakleotic, Heracleotic, Naucratitic)
  • Mendesian (Tanitic, Busiritic)
  • Pelusian (Bubastic)
  • Saïtic
  • Sebennytic (Thermutiac)

Anagrams

• LEIN, LINE, Line, Neil, Niel, lien, line