English Explanatory Dictionary

Nile

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world.
  2. A township in Ohio, United States, named after the river; in full, Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio.
  3. A locality in Northern Midlands council area, eastern Tasmania, Australia.

Pronunciation

/naɪl/ en-us-Nile.ogg

Word forms

Nile Nilus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).

Related words

Bolbitine Bucolic Canopic Mendesian Pelusian Saïtic Sebennytic

Derived words

Blue Nile denial is not a river in Egypt Nilean Nile bird Nile fox Nile goose Nile monitor Nile perch Nile tilapia nilometer Niloscope Nilotic West Nile encephalitis White Nile

Translations

Afrikaans: Nyl Afrikaans: Nylrivier Albanian: Nili Amharic: ዐባይ Arabic: اَلنِّيل Armenian: Նեղոս Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܝܠܘܣ Asturian: Nilu Azerbaijani: Nil Basque: Nilo Belarusian: Ніл Bengali: নীলনদ Breton: Nil Bulgarian: Нил Burmese: နိုင်းမြစ် Catalan: Nil Chinese Mandarin: 尼羅河 /尼罗河 Czech: Nil Danish: Nilen Dutch: Nijl Egyptian: H-a:p*y-N36 Egyptian: i-t*:r-w-mw Esperanto: Nilo Estonian: Niilus Faroese: Nílá Finnish: Niili French: Nil Old French: Nil West-Frisian: Nyl Galician: Nilo Georgian: ნილოსი German: Nil Greek: Νείλος Ancient Greek: Νεῖλος Hausa: Nil Hebrew: נִילוּס Hebrew: יְאוֹר Hebrew: שיחור \ שִׁחוֹר Hebrew: נְהַר מִצְרַיִם Hindi: नील Hungarian: Nílus Icelandic: Níl Indonesian: Nil Irish: An Níl Italian: Nilo
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