bile

• enPR: bīl, IPA^(key): /baɪl/, /ˈbaɪ.əl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪl

From Middle French bile, from Latin bīlis (“bile”).

Partially displaced native English gall (“bile”), from Middle English galle, from Old English galla, ġealla (“gall, 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.

   Synonyms: bili-, chole-; gall (archaic)

4. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
6. Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

   Hyponyms: black bile, yellow bile

   • 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.

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 [Irish–English Dictionary], 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

Inherited from Latin bīlis.

bile m

1. bile, anger

• Antonio Pellizzer; Giovanni Pellizzer (1992), Vocabulario del dialetto di Rovigno d'Istria, page 110
• Cergna, Sandro (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC

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, especially 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, especially 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.

From Proto-Germanic *bili-, related to *bilją (“axe, blade, cutting weapon”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.le/

bile m

1. bill of a bird

   Synonym: nebb

2. trunk of an elephant

   Synonym: nypel

• ġebilod

• English: bill

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲi.lʲe/

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.

• Rhymes: -ili, -ilɨ
• Hyphenation: bi‧le

bile f (uncountable)

1. gall; bile

   Synonyms: fel, bílis

• “bile”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bile”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• 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)

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

• bilèsi

• 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.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bile (Cyrillic spelling биле)

1. feminine plural active past participle of biti

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

From Ottoman Turkish بیله (bile), from Old Anatolian Turkish بیله (bilä), from Proto-Turkic *bile (“with, together, also”). Compare Azerbaijani belə, Gagauz bilä. Doublet of ile.

• bilem (Eastern Thrace, Erzurum)

bile

1. (dialectal or archaic, Ordu, Trabzon, Eastern Thrace, Rize, Adana, Osmaniye) together, with

   Synonym: beraber

   eve bile mi gittiniz? ― did you go home together?

bile

1. even

   Synonym: dahi

   çocuk bile bunu anlayabilir ― even a child can understand this

bile

1. (archaic) alternative form of ile

   yarın olsun, hayır bile gelsin ― let it be tomorrow, let it come with prosperity

bile (definite accusative bileyi, plural bileler)

1. (Balıkesir, Denizli, Kütahya, Erzincan, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, Edirne) alternative form of bileği

• “bile”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• “bile”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “bile”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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): /biːl/

bile (simple past bilethe)

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