zil

zil (plural zils)

1. Alternative form of zill (kind of cymbal)

• Zil lane

• Liz

From French îles. See zil#Haitian Creole for more.

zil

1. island

• (Saint Lucia) lilèt

From French îles (“islands”). In French, the plural word îles is commonly preceded by a word, such as aux, les or mes, whose final s or x is not pronounced except in front of vowels, where it is pronounced /z/. As a result, îles was reanalyzed as having /z/ at the front.

zil

1. island

From French îles. In French, the plural word îles is commonly preceded by a word, such as aux, les or mes, whose final s or x is not pronounced except in front of vowels, where it is pronounced /z/. As a result, îles was reanalyzed as having /z/ at the beginning.

zil

1. island

• zilwa (islander)

From Latin caelum.

• IPA^(key): /θil/

zil m

1. sky
   • November 2012, Augusto Ancarani, Bon Nadel in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 5:

     In zil u gn’ era l’ombra d’una stèla;

     In the sky there wasn’t even a shadow of a star;

From Persian زیر‎ (zīr).

zil (definite accusative zili, plural ziller)

1. (door) bell
2. cymbal

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2014-10-24), “zil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2016-12-20