izle

English

Alternative forms

• aizle, aizel
• isel, izel
• easle
• eizel

Etymology

From Old English ysel, ysle. Compare Old Norse usli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪzəl/; (dialectally also) IPA^(key): /ˈizəl/, /ˈɪzəl/
• Rhymes: -aɪzəl

Noun

izle (plural izles)

1. (dialectal) A spark, an ember, a hot ash or cinder.
   • [1815, The Monthly Magazine, page 297:

     Izles, Dust or ashes from the fire. "The furniture is covered with izles."]

   • 1880 (original 1810?), Robert Hartley Cromek, Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, page 142:

     I hied me hame to my father's ha',

     My dear auld mither to see;

     But she lay ' mang the black izles

     Wi' the death-tear in her ee.

   • 1922, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Krindlesyke, book II, "Bell Haggard", page 132:

     I've watched many fires / Since last I sat beside this hearth—good fires : / Coal, coke, and peat, but wood-fires in the main. / There's naught like izles for dancing flames and singing: / Birch kindles best, and has the liveliest flames : / […]

   • 2010, Ben Tripp, Rise Again: A Zombie Thriller, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     […] smoke rolled up into the atmosphere, candescent at the skyline where the red flames leaped up inside it, dancing with bright izles that flared and winked out.

Anagrams

• izel

Turkish

Verb

izle

1. second-person singular imperative of izlemek