gril

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

gril (comparative more gril, superlative most gril)

1. Alternative form of grill

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of grill

Etymology 2

Noun

gril (plural grils)

1. (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of girl.

Anagrams

• Girl, LIRG, girl

Czech

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡrɪl]

Noun

gril m inan

1. grill, barbecue

   Synonyms: rožeň, rošt

Declension

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

• grilovat

 

Further reading

• “gril”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “gril”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin gryllus.

Noun

gril

1. cricket

References

• 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣrɪl/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: gril
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Etymology 1

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

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

1. caprice, whim, impulse

Etymology 2

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. Alternative form of grill

French

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁil/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

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

• 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

• griller

Related terms

• grille

Further reading

• “gril”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Etymology

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

gril m (plural grils)

1. (Jersey) grill

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡril]

Noun

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

1. grill, barbecue

Declension

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

• grilovať

References

• “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

Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

Noun

gril (definite accusative grili, plural griller)

1. grill (barbecue)

Declension

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

• ızgara

References

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

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English grill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

gril m (plural griliau)

1. grill, broiler

Derived terms

• grilio (“to grill, to broil”)

Mutation

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

• 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