sil

Abbreviation of English Sisaala.

sil

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tumulung Sisaala.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tumulung Sisaala terms

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sil (uncountable)

1. A yellowish pigment used by painters in ancient times.
   • 2017, Pier Luigi Tucci, The Temple of Peace in Rome, page 278:

     Indeed, Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder attest that in Greece ochra was the name of the yellow quality, corresponding to what the Romans called sil.

• sil-green

• ILS, ILs, ISL, LIS, LSI, SLI, isl., lis

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɪl]

sil

1. genitive plural of síla

sil

1. genitive plural of silo

sil

1. masculine singular past active participle of sít

   Synonym: sel

sil

1. second-person singular imperative of sílit

• IPA^(key): /siːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

sil n (genitive singular sils, plural sil)

1. (biology) milt, roe (of male fish)

• mjálki

sil n (genitive singular sils, plural sil)

1. (botany) sap

• sevja

• Rhymes: -il

sil m (plural sils)

1. sil

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

Borrowed from English seal.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsil/ [ˈsɪl]
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: sil

sil (plural sil-sil)

1. (automotive) seal (something designed to prevent liquids or gases from leaking through a joint)

From Middle Irish silid (“to drip”). Doublet of siúil.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ʃɪlʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ʃɨ̞lʲ/

sil (present analytic sileann, future analytic silfidh, verbal noun sileadh, past participle silte)

1. (intransitive) to drop (fall in drops or droplets), drip (fall one drop at a time)
2. (transitive) to shed (allow to flow or fall), drip (let fall in drops), weep
3. (ambitransitive) to trickle, distil (trickle down in small drops)
4. (transitive) to drain (flow gradually), flow, run
5. (intransitive) to hang down, droop

   Synonym: croch síos

sil f (genitive singular sile, nominative plural sileanna)

1. a drip

   Synonym: braon

2. a trickle

• sileán
• sileog
• silíg

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Latin caelum. Compare Dalmatian cil.

sil m

1. sky

Borrowed from English seal.

• IPA^(key): [sel], [sɪl]
• Rhymes: -sel, -el

sil (Jawi spelling سيل, plural sil-sil)

1. seal (pinniped)

   Synonym: anjing laut

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

sil

1. second-person singular imperative of silić

sil

1. eagle

sil.

1. abbreviation of silabație: syllabication

From Middle Irish silid (“to drip”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃil/

sil (past shil, future silidh, verbal noun sileadh, past participle silte)

1. rain, drip, shower
2. flow, shed, ooze, dribble

sil f (genitive singular sile, plural silean)

1. (dated) rain, trickle, shower

Borrowed from English sill.

sil m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling сил)

1. sill (layer of igneous rock)

sil

1. cloth

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sil c

1. a strainer
2. (colloquial) a dose of an injected recreational drug, a shot

• tesil

• sila

• såll

• sil in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sil in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sil in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• ils

• shil

sil

1. cow (animal)

• silcu (shilchuh) "milk"
• silkor "beef"

• silloy (shiloi)

• Chungkham Yashwanta Singh (2002) Tarao Grammar (in Tarao)

• IPA^(key): [sil]

sil (nominative plural sils)

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

     Logolsöd lü böds sila.

     Look at the birds in the sky.

• silik
• silikratabumot

• sül (“heaven”)

Borrowed from Old Irish síl (“seed; semen; offspring”).

• IPA^(key): /siːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

sil m (plural silod, not mutable)

1. fry (of fish, especially salmon, trout or minnow)
2. spawn (of fish, frogs, etc.)

• silio, silyn

• scil (archaic)

sil

1. shall, will (first person singular of sille)