pil

From Dutch pil, from Middle Dutch pille, from Medieval Latin pilla, from Latin pilula, diminutive of pila (“ball”).

• IPA^(key): /pəl/

pil (plural pille, diminutive pilletjie)

1. A pill.

• setpil

pil

1. red

• pilpil

pil

1. elephant

• Literary form: fil

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪl]

pil

1. masculine singular past participle of pít

From late Old Norse píla, from Latin pīlum (“javelin”).

• IPA^(key): /piːl/, [pʰiːˀl]

pil c (singular definite pilen, plural indefinite pile)

1. arrow

From Old Norse píll.

• IPA^(key): /piːl/, [pʰiːˀl]

pil c (singular definite pilen, plural indefinite pile)

1. willow

See pile.

• IPA^(key): /piːl/, [pʰiːˀl]

pil

1. imperative of pile

See pille.

• IPA^(key): /pel/, [pʰelˀ]

pil

1. imperative of pille

• IPA^(key): /pɪl/

• pil

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pil
• Rhymes: -ɪl

From Middle Dutch pille, from Medieval Latin pilla, from Latin pilula, diminutive of pila (“ball”).

pil f (plural pillen, diminutive pilletje n)

1. a pill, an usually ball- or oval-shaped, coated portion of a drug to be taken orally
2. (with definite article: de pil) 'the' contraceptive pill

   Synonym: anticonceptiepil

3. an analogous ball-shaped object
4. (metonymically) an expert in pill use:
   1. a pharmacist
   2. an MD
   3. (military) a med student
5. a thick sandwich
6. a hard kick on a balk or other object
7. a bitter experience
8. a large book, a tome

• (drugs pill): anticonceptiepil, pillendoos, pillendraaier, zetpil
• (electric battery): pillamp, pillicht

• Afrikaans: pil
• → Indonesian: pil
• → Papiamentu: pelchi, pilchi, peeltsji (from the diminutive)
• → Sranan Tongo: perki
  • → Saramaccan: péiki

Borrowed from French pile.

pil f (plural pillen, diminutive pilleke n)

1. (Belgium) an electric battery

From Middle Dutch pille. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

pil m or f (plural pillen)

1. (obsolete) godchild

• pillegift
• pillewegge

• lip

From French pile.

• IPA^(key): /pîl/

pîl m

1. (Niger) battery (especially of a flashlight)

   Synonym: (Nigeria) batir

From Dutch pil (“pill”), from Middle Dutch pille, from Medieval Latin pilla, from Latin pilula, diminutive of pila (“ball”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪl]
• Hyphenation: pil

pil (first-person possessive pilku, second-person possessive pilmu, third-person possessive pilnya)

1. (medicine, pharmacy) pill: a small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

   Synonyms: gentel, tablet

• “pil” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpil/
• Rhymes: -il
• Hyphenation: pìl

pil m

1. Alternative form of PIL

pil

1. elephant

pil

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of pilēt
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of pilēt
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of pilēt
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of pilēt

pil

1. thunder

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Malcolm Ross et al, The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The Culture and Environment →ISBN:

  Nehan pil 'thunder' [...] Solos pina 'thunder'

• IPA^(key): /piːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

From Old Norse píla.

pil f or m (definite singular pila or pilen, indefinite plural piler, definite plural pilene)

1. an arrow (projectile)

   pil og bue ― bow and arrow

2. an arrow (graphic symbol)

• pilspiss

From Old Norse píll.

pil f or m (definite singular pila or pilen, indefinite plural piler, definite plural pilene)

1. a willow (tree of genus Salix)

• “pil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /piːl/

From Old Norse píla, from Latin pilum (“javelin”).

pil f (definite singular pila, indefinite plural piler, definite plural pilene)

pil m (definite singular pilen, indefinite plural pilar, definite plural pilane)

1. an arrow (projectile)

   pil og boge ― bow and arrow

2. an arrow (graphic symbol)

• pilspiss

From Old Norse píll.

pil (inflections as for Etymology 1)

1. a willow (tree of genus Salix)

• “pil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /pil/
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: pil

pil

1. second-person singular imperative of pilić

Borrowed from French pile.

pil

1. battery

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈpiːl]

pil m pl (Ravenna, Castel Bolognese)

1. plural of pél (“hair”)

Unknown. Possibly from a Vulgar Latin root *pillum (compare piuă, from *pilla), or from Latin pīlum (“spear”).

pil n (plural piluri)

1. (regional) stick, rod; also, a horsewhip

• împila
• piuă

From Bavarian pronunciation of German Bild as in German Bildsäule, later reinterpreted, extended and modified in meaning range by clipping of pìlōn.

• IPA^(key): /pîːl/

pȋl m (Cyrillic spelling пи̑л)

1. an architectural monument in pillar shape standing apart from other buildings and often of religious significance (stele and statue, ornamented pillar, a pylon in the Egyptian sense, often a kind of chapel that is open-air like a mobile-phone-era payphone called poklónac)

   Hypernym: kȋp

From Proto-Slavic *pilъ.

• IPA^(key): [pil]

pil

1. masculine singular l-participle of piť

From Proto-Slavic *pilъ.

• IPA^(key): /píːʋ/

pȋł

1. masculine singular l-participle of píti

From Proto-Slavic *pilъ.

• IPA^(key): /pìːl/

píl

1. genitive plural/dual of píla

From Bavarian pronunciation of German Bild as in Bildsäule.

• IPA^(key): /pìːl/, /píːl/

pīl m inan

1. a monument often in pillar shape standing apart from other buildings

• “pil”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

• audio

  (file)

From Old Norse píla.

pil c

1. arrow, the weapon
2. arrow, the symbol
3. dart, the small arrowlike thing thrown in the game of darts.

• piltavla

From Old Norse píli.

pil c

1. willow, a tree in the genus Salix

• (dart): dartpil
• (willow): pilträd

• båge c

• pil in Svensk ordbok.

Borrowed from French pile.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpil/

pil (definite accusative pili, plural piller)

1. battery

• batarya

Borrowed from Persian بیل‎ (bēl).

• bel (archaic or dialectal)
• пил, бел, بیل‎

pil (definite accusative pili, plural piller)

1. shovel, spade

Borrowed from Persian پیل‎ (pīl).

• пил, پیل‎

pil (definite accusative pili, plural piller)

1. elephant

pil (nominative plural pils)

1. eel

pil

1. clever

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf