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Nile
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nile nilé
English
river Q3392
Alternative forms
en Nilus obsolete
Etymology
From en grc Νεῖλος.
Pronunciation
en /naɪl/
en en-us-Nile.ogg US
en aɪl 1
Proper noun
(the) Nile
en Q3392 en A large <<river>> in Africa, usually considered to be the longest river in the world; its basin covers <<c/Burundi>>, <<c/Rwanda>>, <<c/Tanzania>>, <<c/Kenya>>, <<c/Uganda>>, the <<c/Democratic Republic of the Congo>>, <<c/Ethiopia>>, <<c/Eritrea>>, <<c/South Sudan>>, <<c/Sudan>>, and <<c/Egypt>>, flowing north through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea.
en 1844 Larcher Pierre Henri Cooley William Desborough Larcher's notes on Herodotus The seven mouths of the Nile then, from east to west, are the Pelusian, the Mendesian, the Bucolic, the Sebennytic, the Saïtic, the Bolbitine, and the Canopic. Such is the account of Heredotus.
en Mar 6 2016 w:Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 3 4 Special Districts HBO A river you think so little about, you don’t even realize that’s not the Nile, this is the Nile.
en twp s/Ohio c/USA named after the river Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio.
en locality carea/Northern Midlands eastern s/Tasmania c/Australia.
Derived terms
en Nile perch Nilean nilometer Niloscope Nilotic Nile tilapia Blue Nile denial is not a river in Egypt Nile bird Nile fox Nile goose Nile monitor Nile tamarisk West Nile encephalitis White Nile
Translations
river Q3392
Afrikaans: af Nyl, af Nylrivier
Albanian: sq Nili
Amharic: am ዐባይ m
Arabic: ar اَلنِّيل m
Aramaic: arc ܢܝܠܘܣ Nīlōs
Armenian: hy Նեղոս
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܢܝܠܘܣ Nīlōs
Asturian: ast Nilu m
Azerbaijani: az Nil
Basque: eu Nilo
Belarusian: be Ніл m
Bengali: bn নীলনদ
Breton: br Nil
Bulgarian: bg Нил m
Burmese: my နိုင်းမြစ်
Catalan: ca Nil m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 尼羅河 Níluó hé
Coptic:
Bohairic Coptic: cop ⲓⲁⲣⲟ Nile Ⲫⲓⲁⲣⲟ m
Sahidic Coptic: cop ⲉⲓⲉⲣⲟ Nile Ⲡⲉⲓⲉⲣⲟ m
Czech: cs Nil m
Danish: da Nilen c
Dutch: nl Nijl m
Egyptian: ḥꜥpj m H-a:p*y-N36, jtrw m i-t*:r-w-mw
Esperanto: eo Nilo
Estonian: et Niilus
Faroese: fo Nílá f
Finnish: fi Niili
French: fr Nil m
Old French: fro Nil m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Nyl
Galician: gl Nilo m
Georgian: ka ნილოსი
German: de Nil m
Greek: el Νείλος m
Ancient Greek: grc Νεῖλος m
Hausa: ha Nil
Hebrew: he נִילוּס nilus, he יְאוֹר m y'ór, he שיחור שיחור \ שִׁחוֹר m shikhór, he נְהַר מִצְרַיִם n'har mitsráyim m
Hindi: hi नील
Hungarian: hu Nílus
Icelandic: is Níl f
Indonesian: id Nil
Irish: ga Níl An Níl f
Italian: it Nilo m
Japanese: ja ナイル川 Nairu-gawá
Kannada: kn ನೈಲ್
Kazakh: kk Ніл
Khmer: km ទន្លេនីល, km នីល
Korean: ko ^나일 강
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb نیل
Northern Kurdish: kmr Nîl m
Kyrgyz: ky Нил
Latin: la Nīlus m
Latvian: lv Nīla f
Lithuanian: lt Nilas m
Macedonian: mk Нил m
Malay: ms Nil
Malayalam: ml നൈൽ നദി
Manx: gv Neel Yn Neel
Marathi: mr नाईल f
Navajo: nv Náil
Nobiin: fia Áman Dawū, fia ⲁⲙⲁⲛ ⲇⲁⳣⲟ̅ⲩ̅, fia امان داوو
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Nilen m
Nynorsk: nn Nilen m
Occitan: oc Nil m
Odia: or ନାଇଲ
Old Norse: non Níl f
Persian: fa نیل nil
Old Persian: peo 𐎱𐎡𐎼𐎠𐎺 Pirāva
Polish: pl Nil m
Portuguese: pt Nilo m
Punjabi: pa ਨੀਲ
Romanian: ro Nil m
Romansh: rm Nil
Russian: ru Нил m
Scottish Gaelic: gd Nile f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Нил m
Latin: sh Nil m
Slovak: sk Níl m
Slovene: sl Nil m
Somali: so Nil Niil
Spanish: es Nilo m
Swedish: sv Nilen
Tagalog: tl Nilo
Tajik: tg Нил
Tamil: ta நைல்
Telugu: te నైలు నది
Thai: th แม่น้ำไนล์ mɛ̂ɛ-náam-nail
Turkish: tr Nil
Ottoman Turkish: ota نیل nil
Turkmen: tk Nil
Ukrainian: uk Ніл m
Uzbek: uz Nil
Vietnamese: vi Nin, vi Nhĩ Lô rare
Welsh: cy Nîl
See also
Branches of the Nile:
Bolbitine (Bolbitic)
Bucolic (Phatnitic, Phatnic, Phatmetic, Athribitic)
Canopic (Herakleotic, Heracleotic, Naucratitic)
Mendesian (Tanitic, Busiritic)
Pelusian (Bubastic)
Saïtic
Sebennytic (Thermutiac)
Further reading
Anagrams
en eiln LEIN LINE Line Neil Niel lien line
Latin
Pronunciation
Nīle
la Nī le
Proper noun
la proper noun form Nīle
la Nīlus voc s