bile

• enPR: bīl, IPA^(key): /baɪl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪl

Mid 16th century, via Middle French, from Latin bīlis (“bile”).

bile (usually uncountable, plural biles)

2. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
3. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
4. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
   • 1890, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott‎^[1]:

     I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.

   • 1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft‎^[2]:

     He spake out of the Pythonesse, Act. 16. 17. brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head.

• gall

Obsolete form of boil. Akin to Dutch buil and German Beule, all from Proto-Germanic *būlǭ.

bile (plural biles)

1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).^[1]

bile (third-person singular simple present biles, present participle biling or bileing, simple past and past participle biled)

1. Pronunciation spelling of boil.
   • 1912, Stella George Stern Perry, Melindy, page 130:

     We pretty near biled ourselves and Miss Euly done got her bes' pink apron stained, an' I dropped Sis Suky's big kitchen spoon in de hogshead of sand […]

• -ible, Biel, beli, Lieb

Either related to bolle pl (“testicles”), or a singularized plural of *bilë, from Proto-Albanian *beila, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyH- (“to strike, beat”), in which case close to Proto-Germanic *bilją (“spike, peg, nail, axe, sword, blade”). Compare English bill, German Bille (“axe”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbilɛ/

bile f (plural bile, definite bilja, definite plural bilet)

1. (childish) weenie (penis)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /biˈlɛ/

bile

1. (colloquial) Reinforces what has already been said; even, in fact, furthermore

   Synonym: madje

   bile bile ― as a matter of fact

• “bile”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

From Latin bilis.

• IPA^(key): /bil/

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bile f (uncountable)

1. bile

• bile jaune
• bile noire
• bileux
• se faire de la bile

• “bile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲɪlʲə/

From Old Irish bile, from Proto-Celtic *belyom (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”).

bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

1. tree, especially a large, ancient, sacred one
2. scion; distinguished person

See béal (“lip”)

bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

1. rim (of vessel)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from Latin bīlis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.le/
• Rhymes: -ile
• Hyphenation: bì‧le

bile f (plural bili)

1. (physiology) bile
2. anger

• fiele

• beli

bīle

1. ablative singular of bīlis

IPA^(key): /²biːl.ə/

Borrowed from Middle Low German bīle (“axe”).

bile f or m (definite singular bila or bilen, indefinite plural biler, definite plural bilene)

1. An axe, espescially a broadaxe

From bil.

bile (present tense biler, past tense bilte, past participle bilt)

1. To ride a car

“bile” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

IPA^(key): /²biːl.ə/

Borrowed from Middle Low German bīle (“axe”).

bile f (definite singular bila, indefinite plural biler, definite plural bilene)

1. An axe, espescially a broadaxe

From bil.

bile (present tense bilar or biler, past tense bila or bilte, past participle bila or bilt)

1. To ride a car

“bile” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.le/

bile m

1. bill of a bird

   Synonym: nebb

2. trunk of an elephant

   Synonym: nypel

• English: bill

From Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolyo- (“leaf”). Cognate with Latin folium, Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon), and Old Armenian բողբոջ (bołboǰ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲilʲe/

bile m (genitive bili, nominative plural bili)

1. tree, especially a large, ancient, sacred one

• bilech, biledach

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from Latin bilis.

• Hyphenation: bi‧le

bile f (uncountable)

1. gall; bile

   Synonyms: fel, bílis

• IPA^(key): [ˈbile]

bile f

1. inflection of bilă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

From Old Irish bél (“lip”).^[1] Related to beul.

bile f (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

1. lip (of mouth)
2. rim (of container)
3. brim (of hat)

Borrowed from English bill.

bile m (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

1. bill (for law)

• bilèsi

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بیله (bile) (Turkish bile).

• IPA^(key): /bǐle/
• Hyphenation: bi‧le

bìle (Cyrillic spelling бѝле)

1. (regional) moreover, even

   bile je i on došao čak i on

   even he came

bile (Cyrillic spelling биле)

1. feminine plural active past participle of biti

From Ottoman Turkish بیله (bile), from Proto-Turkic *bile (“with, together, also”). Cognate with Turkish ile.

bile

1. neither, even

Borrowed from Middle Dutch bile or Middle Low German bîle, bîl (“axe”), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bilją.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbilə/

bile c (plural bilen, diminutive byltsje)

1. axe

• “bile”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

From Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir. This is a vulgar pronunciation in Ireland.

• IPA^(key): /biːɫ/

bile (simple past bilethe or bilo't)

1. to boil

• biletha (“boiled”)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 26