Nile

See also: nile and nilé

English

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Nile

Euphrates

Alternative forms

• Nilus (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɪl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪl

Proper noun

(the) Nile

2. A large river in Africa, usually considered to be the longest river in the world; its basin covers Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt, flowing north through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea.
   • 1844, Pierre Henri Larcher, William Desborough Cooley, 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.

   • 2016 March 6, “Special Districts”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 4, via HBO:

     A river you think so little about, you don’t even realize that’s not the Nile, this is the Nile.

3. A township in Ohio, United States, named after the river; in full, Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio.
4. A locality in Northern Midlands council area, eastern Tasmania, Australia.

Derived terms

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

Translations

river

• Afrikaans: Nyl, Nylrivier
• Albanian: Nili
• Amharic: ዐባይ m (ʿäbay)
• Arabic: اَلنِّيل (ar) m (an-nīl)
• Aramaic: ^{(please verify)} ܢܝܠܘܣ (Nīlōs)
• Armenian: Նեղոս (hy) (Neġos)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܝܠܘܣ (Nīlōs)
• Asturian: Nilu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: Nil (az)
• Basque: Nilo
• Belarusian: Ніл m (Nil)
• Bengali: নীলনদ (nilonod)
• Breton: Nil
• Bulgarian: Нил m (Nil)
• Burmese: နိုင်းမြစ် (nuing:mrac)
• Catalan: Nil (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尼羅河 / 尼罗河 (zh) (Níluó hé)

• Coptic:

  Bohairic Coptic: Ⲫⲓⲁⲣⲟ m (Phiaro)

  Sahidic Coptic: Ⲡⲉⲓⲉⲣⲟ m (Peiero)

• Czech: Nil (cs) m
• Danish: Nilen c
• Dutch: Nijl (nl) m
• Egyptian: (ḥꜥpj m), (jtrw m)
• Esperanto: Nilo (eo)
• Estonian: Niilus (et)
• Faroese: Nílá f
• Finnish: Niili (fi)
• French: Nil (fr) m

  Old French: Nil m

• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Nyl

• Galician: Nilo (gl) m
• Georgian: ნილოსი (nilosi)
• German: Nil (de) m
• Greek: Νείλος (el) m (Neílos)

  Ancient Greek: Νεῖλος m (Neîlos)

• Hausa: Nil
• Hebrew: נִילוּס (nilus), יְאוֹר (he) m (y'ór), שיחור \ שִׁחוֹר m (shikhór), נְהַר מִצְרַיִם m (n'har mitsráyim)
• Hindi: नील (hi) (nīl)
• Hungarian: Nílus (hu)
• Icelandic: Níl f
• Indonesian: Nil
• Irish: An Níl f
• Italian: Nilo (it) m
• Japanese: ナイル川 (ja) (Nairu-gawá)
• Kannada: ನೈಲ್ (nail)
• Kazakh: Ніл (Nil)
• Khmer: ទន្លេ​នីល (tŭənlei-niil), នីល (niil)
• Korean: 나일 강 (Nail gang)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نیل (nîl)

  Northern Kurdish: Nîl (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: Нил (Nil)
• Latin: Nīlus m
• Latvian: Nīla f
• Lithuanian: Nilas m
• Macedonian: Нил m (Nil)
• Malay: Nil
• Malayalam: നൈൽ നദി (nail nadi)
• Manx: Yn Neel
• Marathi: नाईल f (nāīl)
• Navajo: Náil
• Nobiin: Áman Dawū, ⲁⲙⲁⲛ ⲇⲁⳣⲟ̅ⲩ̅ (aman dawo̅u̅), امان داوو
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Nilen m

  Nynorsk: Nilen m

• Occitan: Nil (oc) m
• Odia: ନାଇଲ (nāila)
• Old Norse: Níl f
• Persian: نیل (fa) (nil)

  Old Persian: 𐎱𐎡𐎼𐎠𐎺 (p-i-r-a-v /⁠Pirāva⁠/)

• Polish: Nil (pl) m
• Portuguese: Nilo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਨੀਲ (nīl)
• Romanian: Nil m
• Romansh: Nil
• Russian: Нил (ru) m (Nil)
• Scottish Gaelic: Nile f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нил m

  Latin: Nil (sh) m

• Slovak: Níl m
• Slovene: Nil (sl) m
• Somali: Niil
• Spanish: Nilo (es) m
• Swedish: Nilen (sv)
• Tagalog: Nilo
• Tajik: Нил (Nil)
• Tamil: நைல் (nail)
• Telugu: నైలు నది (nailu nadi)
• Thai: แม่น้ำไนล์ (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-nail)
• Turkish: Nil (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: نیل (nil)

• Turkmen: Nil
• Ukrainian: Ніл m (Nil)
• Uzbek: Nil
• Vietnamese: Nin, Nhĩ Lô (rare)
• Welsh: 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

• Nile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• LEIN, LINE, Line, Neil, Niel, lien, line

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈniː.ɫɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈniː.le]
• Hyphenation: Nī‧le

Proper noun

Nīle

1. vocative singular of Nīlus