Nil

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Azerbaijani

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Nil

  1. A transliteration of the English male given name Neil.

Catalan

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Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ca

Etymology

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From Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos), probably via Arabic نِيل (nīl).

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Nil m

  1. Nile (a river in Africa)

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Czech

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  • IPA(key): [ˈnɪl]
  • Hyphenation: Nil

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Nil m inan (related adjective nilský)

  1. Nile

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Further reading

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  • Nil”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • Nil”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

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Nil c

  1. indefinite singular of Nilen

French

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  • IPA(key): /nil/
  • Audio:(file)

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Nil m

  1. Nile (a major river in Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi)

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German

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der Nil m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Nil or des Nils)

  1. Nile (a major river in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Congo, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt, emptying into the Mediterranean)

Hausa

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic النِّيل (an-nīl).

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Nîl f

  1. Nile

Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia id

Etymology

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From Arabic النِّيل (an-nīl)

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Nil

  1. Nile (a river in Africa)

Occitan

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Occitan Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia oc

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Nil m

  1. Nile

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin Nilus, from Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).

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Nil m inan

  1. Nile (a major river flowing through Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi; one of the two longest rivers in the world, along with the Amazon)

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adjective

Further reading

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  • Nil in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Nil in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

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Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sh

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Nȉl m (Cyrillic spelling Ни̏л)

  1. Nile (a major river in Africa)

Turkish

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Nil

  1. Nile
  2. a female given name

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