del

Clipping of English Delaware.

del

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Delaware languages.

From delta, the symbol being an inverted delta.

• IPA^(key): /dɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

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del (plural dels)

1. (mathematical analysis) The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator.
2. (mathematics) the symbol ∂, in the context of a partial differential

• (The symbol ∇): atled, nabla

• Wikipedia article on del, the mathematical symbol

See deal

del (plural dels)

1. (obsolete) a part, portion

Shortening

del

1. Abbreviation of delegate.
2. Abbreviation of delegation.

del

1. Abbreviation of delete.

Abbreviation of Latin delineavit

del

1. abbreviation of delineavit as seen on published artwork, identifying the original artist. Commonly seen in books and articles on topics in natural history

• 'eld, DLE, EDL, LDE, LED, eld, led, μLED

Variant of standard dal.

del

1. to exit
2. to go out

From a contraction of the preposition de (“of, from”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

del m

1. of the, from the

From Proto-Brythonic *döl (whence also Welsh dail), from Proto-Celtic *dol-. Cognate with Middle Irish duille, from Old Irish duilne, from a variant form *dolinyā; both are from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁- (“blossom”), whence also Ancient Greek θάλλω (thállō, “to bloom”), Old English dile (“dill”), and Old Armenian դալար (dalar, “green, fresh”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdel/

del f (singulative delienn)

1. foliage, leaves

del

1. spotted harrier, swamp harrier
2. peregrine falcon, brown falcon
3. Australian kestrel

• (Central) IPA^(key): /dəl/
• (Valencia) IPA^(key): /del/

del

1. Contraction of the preposition de and the article el. of the

• “del”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Spanish del, contraction of ‘de el.’

del

1. (obsolete) of the, from the (only in names with Spanish origins or in phrases with Spanish construct)

• de, dela

From clipping of English delete.

del

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to delete

From Middle Cornish del, from Old Cornish del, from Proto-Brythonic *döl, from Proto-Celtic *dol-, from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰelh₁- (“blossom”). Cognate with Breton del, Welsh dail.

del f (collective, singulative delen)

1. leaves

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥eˀl]

From Middle Low German dēl, deil, from Old Saxon del. The word has replaced the native noun Old Danish deld, Old Norse deild, from Proto-Germanic *dailiþō.

del c (singular definite delen, plural indefinite dele)

1. part, portion
2. proportion
3. share, portion
4. section

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

del

1. imperative of dele

• IPA^(key): /dɛl/
• Hyphenation: del
• Rhymes: -ɛl

From Middle Dutch delle (“valley; dune valley”), from Old Dutch della (“valley; (geography) depression; dune valley”), from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate with English dell.

del n (plural dellen, diminutive delletje n)

1. dune valley
2. dell, small depression in a landscape

• dal
• doel

From Middle Dutch dille. Further origin uncertain; perhaps related to the verb dillen (“to chatter”). Compare English dell.

del f (plural dellen, diminutive delletje n)

1. trollop, floozie

From contraction of preposition de (“of, from”) + third-person masculine singular pronoun el (“he, him, it”).

• IPA^(key): /del/

del m (feminine dela, masculine plural deles, feminine plural delas)

1. of him, of it, from him, from it

• “del”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

del

1. contraction of de la (“from the”)

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del

1. contraction of de le (“of the”)

del

1. Contraction of de (“of”) + el (“the”)
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 29:

     Ti son la manduleîna del mio core;

     You are the almond of my heart;

di (preposition) +‎ il (article)

del

1. contraction of di il; some, of the, from the [with masculine singular noun]

   L'architetto del ristorante parla col cuoco. ― The architect of the restaurant talks with the cook.

di § Usage notes

From Old English dǣl.

• (Early ME) dæl, deal, deol
• dele, deel, deyl, deil, diel, deele

• IPA^(key): /dɛːl/

del (plural deles)

1. A part, proportion or section of something.
2. The part or proportion that one is assigned or entitled to.
3. One's fate, inevitability or luck; what is ordained to occur.
4. A quantity or number of something; a deal or lot.
5. Intensity, severity, degree.
6. (often used in negations) A thing; a small amount.

• dol

• English: deal
• Scots: dele

• “dēl, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 July 2018.

del

1. alternative form of delle (“dell”)

From Middle Low German dēl, deil, from Old Saxon dēl, from Proto-Germanic *dailą, *dailiz (“part, portion, deal”).

del m (definite singular delen, indefinite plural deler, definite plural delene)

1. part, portion, share

del

1. imperative of dele

• “del” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• deil (non-standard since 1938)

From Middle Low German dēl, deil, from Old Saxon dēl, from Proto-Germanic *dailą, *dailiz (“part, portion, deal”).

• IPA^(key): /deːl/

del m (definite singular delen, indefinite plural delar, definite plural delane)

1. part, portion, share

   Synonym: lut

• “del” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• dau
• dal
• deu

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del

1. contraction of de lo

• du

del

1. contraction of de + le (of the)

From Proto-West Germanic *daili.

• IPA^(key): /dɛːl/, /dɛi̯l/

dēl m

1. part, share, portion
2. unit, word

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Northern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛl/

del m inan

1. (Northern Greater Poland) alternative form of dyl

• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “del”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 33

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑁂𑀤𑀺 (dedi), from Sanskrit ददाति (dadāti), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *dádaHti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dádaHti, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti.

del

1. to give

del m (accusative devles, nominative plural devla, accusative plural devlen)

1. alternative form of devel (“god”)

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dádāti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 351
• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “del¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 67-69
• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “del²”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 69
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “d/el, -inǎs ≈ -ias²³”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 122
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o dev/el¹, -les m. -la, -len = o de/l²³, -vles m. -vla, -vlen”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 124

From Proto-Slavic *dělъ.

• IPA^(key): /dèːl/, /déːl/, /dèːʋ/, /déːʋ/

dẹ̄l or dẹ̄ł m inan

1. part

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	dél
gen. sing.	déla
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	dél	déla	déli
genitive (rodȋlnik)	déla	délov	délov
dative (dajȃlnik)	délu	déloma	délom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	dél	déla	déle
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	délu	délih	délih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	délom	déloma	déli

• “del”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

• d'el (obsolete)

• prep de + article el. Akin to Portuguese do and French du.

• IPA^(key): /del/ [d̪el]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: del

del

1. of the, from the (+ a masculine noun in singular).
   • 2024 November 8, Kaitlan Collins, “Batallas desde el patio de Mar-a-Lago: cómo el equipo de Trump compite por los puestos”, in CNN en Español‎^[1]:

     Esas conversaciones en voz baja se convirtieron ahora en una auténtica batalla que se desarrolla directamente desde el patio del club Mar-a-Lago de Trump en Palm Beach, Florida.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• al

• “del”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “del”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN

From Old Swedish del, from Middle Low German dēl, deil, from Old Saxon dēl.

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del c

1. part (of a whole); share

• en del
• en hel del
• för den delen

• dela
• dela med sig

• del in Svensk ordbok.

• LED, eld, led

del (nominative plural dels)

1. day
   • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: VI:

     Klu no kudolsöd tefü odel! Odel jäfikonös me kuds oka it! Del alik labon saidiko töbis lönik oka.

     So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

• adel
• a del
• adelo
• adelo gödiko
• aldelafif
• aposzedel
• aposzedelik
• aposzedelo
• ädel
• ädelik
• ädelo
• ädelo gödiko
• äposzedelo
• delagased
• delagasedem
• delajit
• delaprim
• delaprimik
• delaprimo
• delavomajit
• deled
• deli kinid mula labobs-li adelo?
• dödel
• fidön göliko pos zedel
• fitadel
• florüpadel
• florüpadelalunik
• florüpadelo
• fluküpadel
• fluküpadelalunik
• fluküpadelo
• foldegdelacunüp
• foldegdelapönidüp
• foldegdelik
• fridel
• hitüpadel
• hitüpadelalunik
• hitüpadelo
• jabatadel
• jabatadelik
• jabatadelo
• jafadel
• jafadelem
• jafadelik
• jafadelo
• jeifadel
• malarafif aldelik
• mäldelik
• motedadel
• mudel
• nifüpadel
• nifüpadelalunik
• odel
• odelik
• odelo
• poszedel
• poszedelik
• poszedelo
• pönidüp foldegdelik (karen)
• sis ädel
• sudel
• tudel
• tumdelik
• ün del semik
• vedel
• veldelik
• zädel
• zäladel
• zedel
• zehitüpadel

Related to delw (“image”)^[1]

• IPA^(key): /dɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

del (feminine singular del, plural del, equative deled, comparative delach, superlative delaf)

1. pretty

• IPA^(key): /dɛl/

del

1. down

• “del”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

From Middle English telle, tille, from Old English til.

• dell, tell, 'tell, till

• IPA^(key): /dɛl/, /tɛl/, /tɪl/

del

1. until
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Del Ich.

     Until I.

   • 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 2-3:

     Hea raan awye del hea caame neeghe Burstheoune.

     He ran away until he came nigh to Bridgetown.

From Middle English delven, from Old English delfan, from Proto-West Germanic *delban.

• IPA^(key): /dɛl/

del (present participle delleen, simple past dellt)

1. to dig or delve

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 33 & 34