fil

See also: fîl, fiľ, fil., -fil, and Fil-

English

Noun

fil (uncountable)

  1. A Nordic dairy product, similar to yoghurt, but using different bacteria which give a different taste and texture.

Anagrams

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic фил
Roman fil
Perso-Arabic فیل‎

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic فِيل‎ (fīl).

Noun

fil (definite accusative fili, plural fillər)

  1. elephant
  2. (chess) bishop

Declension

Declension of fil
singular plural
nominative fil fillər
definite accusative fili filləri
dative filə fillərə
locative fildə fillərdə
ablative fildən fillərdən
definite genitive filin fillərin

See also

Chess pieces in Azerbaijani · şahmat fiquru (layout · text)
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şah vəzir top fil at piyada

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin fīlum, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-.

Pronunciation

Noun

fil m (plural fils)

  1. thread, wire
  2. (Internet) discussion thread

Synonyms

  • (discussion thread): tema

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin fīlum.

Noun

fil m

  1. thread, yarn, string

Danish

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German vīle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiːl/, [fiːˀl]
  • Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

fil c (singular definite filen, plural indefinite file)

  1. file (tool)
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English file (“an aggregation of data”) (1962).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiːl/, [fiːˀl]

Noun

fil c (singular definite filen, plural indefinite filer)

  1. file (computer terminology)
Declension

Etymology 3

See file.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiːl/, [fiːˀl]

Verb

fil

  1. imperative of file

French

Etymology

From Old French fil, from Latin fīlum, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-.

Pronunciation

Noun

fil m (plural fils)

  1. thread, wire
    ne tenir qu'à un fil - to hang by a thread
  2. grain (of wood etc.)
  3. edge (of blade, razor etc.)

Further reading

Interlingue

Noun

fil (plural files)

  1. thread
  2. wire

Italian

Noun

fil m (invariable)

  1. Apocopic form of filo

Judeo-Tat

Other scripts
Latin fil
Cyrillic фил (fil)
Hebrew פאִל‎ (fil)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɪl/

Noun

fil

  1. elephant

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiːl/
  • Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

fil f, m (definite singular fila or filen, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)

  1. A file.
  2. A hand tool used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
  3. A section of roadway for a single line of vehicles, a lane.

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin fīlium, accusative singular of fīlius. The nominative form fiz, fils (whence modern French fils), derives from the Latin nominative.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiʎ/

Noun

fil m (oblique plural fiz or filz, nominative singular fiz or filz, nominative plural fil)

  1. son (male child)
Descendants
  • English: Fitz (from the nominative fiz)
  • French: fils (from the nominative "fiz", later "fils")

Etymology 2

From Latin fīlum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fil/

Noun

fil m (oblique plural fis, nominative singular fis, nominative plural fil)

  1. thread (fine strand of material)
Descendants

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the imperative of Proto-Celtic *wel- (“see”) (compare Welsh gweled). Semantic development from "see!" to "there is" is parallel to that of French voici, from vois ci "see here" and voilà, from vois là "see there".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʲilʲ/

Verb

·fil (conjunct), fil (relative)

  1. present progressive conjunct of at·tá
  2. third-person singular present progressive relative of at·tá

Usage notes

In the conjunct form, the logical subject appears in the accusative (or as an infixed object pronoun) in the oldest language. Examples: nícon·ḟil nach rainn (“there is no part”), nín·fil (“we are not”), condib·feil (“so that you pl are”).

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
fil ḟil fil
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • fȉlj

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فیل‎ (fil) (modern Turkish fil), from Arabic فِيل‎ (fīl), from Middle Persian pyl (pīl), from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛 (pīru). Akin to fìldiš.

Pronunciation

  • (fȉl): IPA(key): /fîl/
  • (fȋl): IPA(key): /fîːl/

Noun

fȉl m (Cyrillic spelling фи̏л) or fȋl m (Cyrillic spelling фи̑л)

  1. (regional) elephant

Declension

Synonyms

References

  • “fil” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Abdulah Škaljić (1966), Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Svjetlost: Sarajevo, page 283
  • Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (1990, Друго фототипско издање), Матица српска, Matica hrvatska (Нови Сад, Zagreb), volume 6, page 668

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German vīle. Cognate with English file and German Feile.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiːl/
  • audio(file)

Noun

fil c

  1. a file (a tool)
Declension
Declension of fil 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fil filen filar filarna
Genitive fils filens filars filarnas

Etymology 2

.

Row and lane (a row of vehicles) is one etymology, but as English file suggests computer file has a different etymology. However, the Swedish computer file is sometimes explained as a row of bytes, in attempt to shoehorn this new English loanword into the etymology of the existing word.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiːl/
  • audio(file)

Noun

fil c

  1. a row of objects; most commonly used about moving objects
  2. a section of roadway for a single line of vehicles, a lane
  3. file (in computer technology)
Declension
Declension of fil 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fil filen filer filerna
Genitive fils filens filers filernas
row
  • defilera
lane
  • filkörning
  • filmarkering
computer file

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiːl/
  • audio(file)

Noun

fil c (uncountable)

  1. any product from a family of various (deliberately) soured milk products
  2. abbreviation for filmjölk; a particular kind of fil as above
Declension
Declension of fil 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative fil filen — —
Genitive fils filens — —

References

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English field.

Noun

fil

  1. sportsfield

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish فیل‎ (fil), from Arabic فِيل‎ (fīl), from Persian پیل‎ (pīl) (and from alternate Ottoman Turkish پیل‎ (pil), directly from Persian پیل‎ (pīl)), from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛 (pīru), related to Egyptian ꜣbw (root of English elephant).

Pronunciation

Noun

fil (definite accusative fili, plural filler)

  1. elephant
  2. (chess) bishop

Declension

Inflection
Nominative fil
Definite accusative fili
Singular Plural
Nominative fil filler
Definite accusative fili filleri
Dative file fillere
Locative filde fillerde
Ablative filden fillerden
Genitive filin fillerin
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular filim fillerim
2nd singular filin fillerin
3rd singular fili filleri
1st plural filimiz fillerimiz
2nd plural filiniz filleriniz
3rd plural filleri filleri
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular filim fillerim
2nd singular filsin fillersin
3rd singular fil
fildir		 filler
fillerdir
1st plural filiz filleriz
2nd plural filsiniz fillersiniz
3rd plural filler fillerdir

Uzbek

Other scripts
Cyrillic фил‍
Roman fil‍
Perso-Arabic ‍‍

Noun

fil (plural fillar)

  1. elephant

Declension

Volapük

Noun

fil (plural fils)

  1. fire

Declension

Derived terms

Welsh

Noun

fil

  1. soft mutation of mil
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