hile

hile (plural hiles)

1. (botany, archaic) Alternative form of hilum

• “hile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Probably a collateral form of ail (“awn of barley”).

hile (plural hiles)

1. (West Country, obsolete) A bundle of sheaves of wheat (or similar crop) stacked vertically to dry; a stook.

hile (third-person singular simple present hiles, present participle hiling, simple past and past participle hiled)

1. (West Country, obsolete) To form sheaves into a hile.

• Heil, Ihle, Lehi, elhi, heil, heli-

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حیله (hile, “artifice, stratagem, ruse”), itself from Arabic حِيلَة (ḥīla, “trick, artifice, ruse”).^[1]

hile f (plural hile, definite hilja, definite plural hilet)

1. trick, cheat

• skile

• “hile”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Probably hil- +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhileˣ/, [ˈhile̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ile
• Syllabification^(key): hi‧le
• Hyphenation^(key): hi‧le

hile

1. (usually in the plural) small ice crystal, often found floating in air
2. glitter

• “hile”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• Heli

From Latin hilum.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /il/

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hile m (plural hiles)

1. hilum

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

hile

1. alternative form of hele (“heel”)

hile

1. alternative form of yle

hile

1. inflection of hilar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish حیله, from Arabic حيلة (ḥīla, “trickery”).

• IPA^(key): /hi(ː)ˈle/
• Hyphenation: hi‧le
• Rhymes: -lɛ

hile (definite accusative hileyi, plural hileler)

1. deceit, ruse, trick
2. adulteration (with the intent of deceiving buyers)

• hile-i şer'iyye (“Islam: legal stratagem”)

• hileli (“adulterated; dishonest, fraudulent”)

• “hile”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hile”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حیله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 816

hile

1. alternative form of hele (“hill”)
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Vearnee-hile.

     Ferny hill.

• 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 74