zile

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish زیل (zil), زل (zil) (Turkish zil), from Persian زیر (zir).

zíle f (plural zile, definite zilja, definite plural zilet)

1. bell

   Synonyms: këmborë, cigremë, cingare

• këmbanë

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• “zile”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Newmark, L. (1999), “zile”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]
• Meyer, G. (1891), “ziľe”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 485

From French les iles (“the islands”).

• IPA^(key): /zile/

zile

1. island

   Synonym: il

• IPA^(key): [ˈzile]

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zile f pl

1. plural of zi

zile

1. n class_(X) inflected form of -le