sili

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sili"

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chilli.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsili/ [ˈsi.l̪i]
  • Hyphenation: si‧li

Noun

síli (Basahan spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜒ)

  1. (Naga) chili pepper
    Synonym: lada

See also

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chilli.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: si‧li
  • IPA(key): /ˈsili/ [ˈs̪i.l̪ɪ]

Noun

sili

  1. Capsicum; a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae
  2. the fruit of these plants; a chili pepper or bell pepper

Czech

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɪlɪ]

Participle

sili

  1. animate masculine plural past active participle of sít

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

sili

  1. hot pepper

Fijian

Verb

sili

  1. To bathe.

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /síː.lìː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [síː.lìː]

Noun

sīlī̀ m (plural sīlī̀, possessed form sīlìn)

  1. alternative form of silin

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsi.li/
  • Rhymes: -ili
  • Hyphenation: sì‧li

Noun

sili m

  1. plural of silo

Anagrams

Karao

Noun

sili

  1. hot pepper

Kavalan

Noun

sili

  1. hot pepper

Latvian

Noun

sili m

  1. nominative/vocative plural of sils

Lingala

Alternative forms

Noun

sili class 1 (plural basili class 2)

  1. louse

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic силити (siliti), from Proto-Slavic *sila (force).

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Verb

a sili (third-person singular present silește, past participle silit) 4th conjugation

  1. to force someone
  2. (reflexive) to try one's best

Conjugation

Samoan

Adjective

sili

  1. best; highest; superior; noble

Derived terms

Verb

sili

  1. to ask

Sango

Noun

sili

  1. louse

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sili (Cyrillic spelling сили)

  1. dative/locative singular of sila

Verb

sili (Cyrillic spelling сили)

  1. inflection of siliti:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person singular imperative

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From Dutch ziel.

Noun

sili

  1. soul
    Synonym: kra

Swahili

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English seal.

Noun

sili class IX (plural sili class X)

  1. seal (A pinniped, particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sili

  1. first-person singular present negative of -la

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish chili, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈsili/ [ˈsiː.lɪ], (colloquial) /ˈsile/ [ˈsiː.lɛ]
  • Rhymes: -ili
  • Syllabification: si‧li

Noun

sili (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜒ)

  1. chili pepper; pepper (plant and fruit)
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • sili-silihan
  • silihan
  • siling-bilog
  • siling-haba
  • siling-labuyo
  • siling-lara
  • siling-panigang
  • siling-paraka
  • siling-pasiti
  • siling-pukinggan
  • siling-pula
  • sinili
  • sinilihan

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /siˈli/ [sɪˈlɪ]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Syllabification: si‧li

Noun

silí (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜒ)

  1. winnowing to separate husked rice from the unhusked rice (on a basket tray)
Derived terms
  • ipagsili
  • magsili
  • silihin

Further reading

  • sili”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Common Turkic *silig (clean, pure, beautiful), from Proto-Turkic *sīl- (to clean, purify). Cognate with Tatar сылу (sılu), Kazakh сұлу (sūlu), Kyrgyz сулуу (suluu), Bashkir һылыу (hılıw), Uzbek suluv (beautiful, handsome), etc.

Adjective

sili

  1. (obsolete) clean, pure
  2. (obsolete, figurative) chaste, virtuous

References

  • sili”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Tuvaluan

Verb

sili

  1. To ask.

Waray-Waray

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chilli.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsili/, [ˈsi.li]
  • Hyphenation: si‧li

Noun

síli

  1. chili pepper
    Synonym: harang
  2. (anatomy, informal) the penis
    Synonyms: buto, lisik, utin

Yogad

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chili, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

Noun

sili

  1. chilli