pili

pili

1. plural of pilus

Borrowed from Tagalog pili.

pili (plural pilis or pili)

1. A tropical tree, Canarium ovatum, native to maritime Southeast Asia, New Guinea and northern Australia, and cultivated in the Philippines for its nuts.
   • 1996, Roberto E. Coronel, Pili Nut, Canarium Ovatum Engl, page 12:

     The pili is indigenous to the Philippines (Merrill 1912, 1923; Wester 1921; Brown 1954; Li 1970).

   • 2009, Bioversity International, Bioversity Annual Report 2009, page 19:

     Pili (Canarium ovatum) is the most important tree nut of the Philippines. […] Natural populations of pili are found in forests and are threatened by human activities and natural disasters.

   • 2012, M.N. Normah, S. K. Malik, R. Chaudhury, I. Salma, M. A. Makeen, Chapter 8: Conservation of Tropical Fruit Genetic Resources, M. N. Normah, H. F. Chin, Barbara M. Reed (editors, Conservation of Tropical Plant Species, page 143,

     The crops covered by the project include jackfruit and other Artocarpus species, pili (Canarium ovatum), mangosteen and other Garcinia species, and durian (Durio zibethinus).

2. The edible nut of the tree.

   Synonym: pili nut

   • 2017 July 13, Claudia McNeilly, “Pili—The Delicious, Healthy Nut You’ve Never Heard Of”, in Vogue‎^[1]:

     Pili—pronounced “peeley”—is a distinctive, tear-shaped nut native to Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands. It’s here that roasted, fried, and sugared varieties of pili can be found for sale on nearly every street.

• ipil

From Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pili(h).

• Hyphenation: pi‧li
• IPA^(key): /ˈpili/ [ˈpi.l̪i]

píli

1. the pili tree (Canarium ovatum)
2. a pili nut

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq.

• Hyphenation: pi‧li
• IPA^(key): /ˈpiliʔ/ [ˈpi.l̪iʔ]

pili

1. fastidious; selective; particular; fussy

pili

1. choosing; selecting; picking

• Hyphenation: pi‧li
• IPA^(key): /ˈpiliʔ/ [ˈpi.l̪ɪʔ]

pilì

1. pili tree (Canarium ovatum)
2. pili nut

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq (cf. Malay pilih and Tagalog pili).

pilì

1. to choose; to select

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪlɪ]
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪ
• Homophones: pily, pyly

pili

1. masculine animate plural of the past participle of pít

Borrowed from dialectal Swedish pille (compare Norwegian pill, Low German pille).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpili/, [ˈpili]
• Rhymes: -ili
• Syllabification^(key): pi‧li
• Hyphenation^(key): pi‧li

pili (childish)

1. synonym of pippeli (“pee-pee, penis”)

• “pili”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 5 April 2024

From Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pili(h).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpili/ [ˈpi.li]
• Rhymes: -ili
• Syllabification: pi‧li

pili (Hanunoo spelling ᜩᜲᜮᜲ) (botany)

1. a tree from which an inflammable pitch is obtained for use in making crude candles to illuminate the house

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiliʔ/ [ˈpi.lɪʔ]
• Rhymes: -iliʔ
• Syllabification: pi‧li

pilì (Hanunoo spelling ᜩᜲᜮᜲ)

1. choosing; selection

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 220

From Proto-Polynesian *pilit (“to adhere/stick”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.li/

pili

1. black speargrass (Heteropogon contortus)

pili(intransitive)

1. to cling
2. to be close, associated

• pilikana

pili

1. to choose

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?]; compare pilih.

pili (used in the form pilien)

1. to choose

pilī

1. inflection of pilus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

pīlī

1. genitive singular of pīlum

pili f

1. accusative/instrumental singular of pils

pili f

1. accusative/instrumental singular of pile

pili

1. inflection of pilēt:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʲili/, [ˈpʲilʲi]

pili

1. plural of pił

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.li/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ili
• Syllabification: pi‧li

pili

1. third-person singular present of pilić

pili

1. third-person plural virile past of pić

pili

1. duck, often female

From pilă +‎ -i.

a pili (third-person singular present pilește, past participle pilit) 4th conjugation

1. to file

Borrowed from Romani pijel.

a pili (third-person singular present pilește, past participle pilit) 4th conjugation

1. (slang) to get drunk

pili (Cyrillic spelling пили)

1. third-person singular present of piliti

Swahili numbers ^(edit)

	20
[a], [b] ←  1	2	3  →
Cardinal: -wili, pili     Ordinal: -a pili     Fractional: nusu

• Audio (Kenya):

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pili

1. two

Used as an abstract value; when the number is being used as an adjective, use -wili.

-a pili (invariable)

1. second (number-two)

From Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pili(h). Compare Hiligaynon pili, Waray-Waray pili, Cebuano pili, Bikol Central pili, Hanunoo pili, Ibanag pili, and Iban empili.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpili/ [ˈpiː.lɪ]
• Rhymes: -ili
• Syllabification: pi‧li

pili (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜎᜒ)

1. the pili tree (Canarium ovatum)
2. a pili nut

   Synonyms: basiyad, liputi, pilaway

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq. Compare Tausug pī' and Malay pilih.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈpiliʔ/ [ˈpiː.lɪʔ] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -iliʔ
  • IPA^(key): /piˈliʔ/ [pɪˈlɪʔ] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -iʔ
• Syllabification: pi‧li

pilì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜎᜒ)

1. choice
2. act of choosing

pilî (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜎᜒ)

1. select (privileged, specially selected)

• Ipil, lipi, ipil

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.li/
• Hyphenation: pi‧li

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *pili. Cognates include Hawaiian pili and Tuvaluan pili.

pili

1. (intransitive) to be close

From Proto-Polynesian *pili. Cognates include Tuvaluan pili and Samoan pili.

pili

1. lizard

Borrowed from English bill.

pili

1. bill (written note of goods solved)

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[3], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 269

pili

1. basket

• Benedicte Haraldstad Frostad (2012). The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu.

pili

1. different, other, else

   Ku kàski pili kèku lësii.

   He could not do anything else.

   Në takok ahsën pili linakòt.

   That other rock looks different.

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “pili”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project