kitil
Brunei Malay
Etymology
Borrowed from English kettle. Compare Malay ketel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kitil/
- Hyphenation: ki‧til
Noun
kitil
- kettle (vessel)
Derived terms
- kitil karan (“electric kettle”)
Iban
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ki.tɪl/
Noun
kitil
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Austronesian *kətil (“pinch off”). Compare Malay ketil. See also Ilocano kettel and Cebuano kutol.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kiˈtil/ [kɪˈt̪ɪl]
- Rhymes: -il
- Syllabification: ki‧til
Adjective
kitíl (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜆᜒᜎ᜔)
- nipped; cut off (using fingers, an instrument, or tool)
- (by extension) killed; having one's life ended
- (by extension) killed; suppressed (of someone's idea, hope, ambition, etc.)
- Synonyms: sugpo, sinugpo
Derived terms
- kitilan
- kitlan
- kitlan ng buhay
- kitlin
- kumitil
- kumitil ng buhay
- pagkitil
See also
Noun
kitíl (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜆᜒᜎ᜔)
- act of cutting off or nipping (as with fingernails)
- act of killing someone, especially by cutting someone's throat
- suppression; nipping in the bud
- Synonyms: sugpo, pagsugpo
Further reading
- “kitil”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ketil”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI