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gril

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Adjective edit

gril (comparative more gril, superlative most gril)

  1. Alternative form of grill

Verb edit

gril (third-person singular simple present grils, present participle grilling, simple past and past participle grilled)

  1. Alternative form of grill

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

gril (plural grils)

  1. (Internet slang, humorous) Misspelling of girl.

Anagrams edit

Czech edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English grill, from Middle French grille, grisle, from Old French greille, graïlle, from earlier gradilie (end of 10th century), from Latin crāticula (or a Vulgar Latin graticula)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

gril m inan

  1. grill, barbecue
    Synonyms: rožeň, rošt

Declension edit

Declension of gril (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative gril grily
genitive grilu grilů
dative grilu grilům
accusative gril grily
vocative grile grily
locative grilu grilech
instrumental grilem grily

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

  • gril in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
  • gril in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dalmatian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin gryllus.

Noun edit

gril

  1. cricket

References edit

  • Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɣrɪl/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: gril
  • Rhymes: -ɪl

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Middle High German grille (“cricket”) (modern Grille). Perhaps the shift in sense is due to a conflation of crickets with earwigs, involving the popular myth of insects which crawl through the ears to lay eggs in the brain, altering a person's behaviour.

Noun edit

gril f or m (plural grillen, diminutive grilletje n)

  1. caprice, whim, impulse

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

gril m (plural grils)

  1. Alternative form of grill

French edit

Etymology edit

At least 1300s, from Middle French gril, from Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin crātīcula (“grating”), diminutive of crātis (“hurdle, wickerwork”). Doublet of grille.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

gril m (plural grils)

  1. grill (cooking implement made of metal rods)
  2. (historical) A heated metal grill used to torture by burning
  3. (by extension, chiefly phrasal) Torture, torment
    • 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis-clos (No Exit), Act 1, sc. 5:
      Je n’aurais jamais cru... vous vous rappelez: le soufre, le bûcher, le gril...
      I would never have believed it... you remember: the fire, the brimstone, the torment...
    retourner sur le gril d’école
    suffer the torment of school (literally "turn over on the grill")
    passer sur le gril
    rake over the coals

Usage notes edit

  • Although sense 3 mostly appears in set phrases with sur, literarily it may sometimes be used on its own, such as in the above quotation.

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

Norman edit

Etymology edit

From Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin crātīcula (“gridiron”), diminutive of crātis (“hurdle, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *kor(ə)t-, *krāt- (“to weave, twist, wattle; wicker”).

Noun edit

gril m (plural grils)

  1. (Jersey) grill

Slovak edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

gril m inan (genitive singular grilu, nominative plural grily, genitive plural grilov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. grill, barbecue

Declension edit

Declension of gril
singular plural
nominative gril grily
genitive grilu grilov
dative grilu grilom
accusative gril grily
locative grile griloch
instrumental grilom grilmi

Related terms edit

References edit

  • “gril”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French grille.

Noun edit

gril (definite accusative grili, plural griller)

  1. grill (barbecue)

Declension edit

Inflection
Nominative gril
Definite accusative grili
Singular Plural
Nominative gril griller
Definite accusative grili grilleri
Dative grile grillere
Locative grilde grillerde
Ablative grilden grillerden
Genitive grilin grillerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular grilim grillerim
2nd singular grilin grillerin
3rd singular grili grilleri
1st plural grilimiz grillerimiz
2nd plural griliniz grilleriniz
3rd plural grilleri grilleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular grilimi grillerimi
2nd singular grilini grillerini
3rd singular grilini grillerini
1st plural grilimizi grillerimizi
2nd plural grilinizi grillerinizi
3rd plural grillerini grillerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular grilime grillerime
2nd singular griline grillerine
3rd singular griline grillerine
1st plural grilimize grillerimize
2nd plural grilinize grillerinize
3rd plural grillerine grillerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular grilimde grillerimde
2nd singular grilinde grillerinde
3rd singular grilinde grillerinde
1st plural grilimizde grillerimizde
2nd plural grilinizde grillerinizde
3rd plural grillerinde grillerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular grilimden grillerimden
2nd singular grilinden grillerinden
3rd singular grilinden grillerinden
1st plural grilimizden grillerimizden
2nd plural grilinizden grillerinizden
3rd plural grillerinden grillerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular grilimin grillerimin
2nd singular grilinin grillerinin
3rd singular grilinin grillerinin
1st plural grilimizin grillerimizin
2nd plural grilinizin grillerinizin
3rd plural grillerinin grillerinin

Synonyms edit

References edit

  • “gril”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Welsh edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English grill.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

gril m (plural griliau)

  1. grill, broiler

Derived terms edit

  • grilio (“to grill, to broil”)

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
gril unchanged△ ngril unchanged
△Irregular.
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gril”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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