zile

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

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish زیل (zil), زل (zil) (Turkish zil), from Persian زیر (zir).

Noun

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

1. bell

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

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• “zile”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Newmark, L. (1999) “zile”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]
• 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

Etymology

From French les iles (“the islands”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zile/

Noun

zile

1. island

   Synonym: il

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