नील

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नील¹

  • /niːl/ Hindi, Standard

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

adjective nīl · نیل

  1. indeclinable blue

    Similar: नीला, श्याम

noun nīl · نیل · नील · नीलों

  1. masculine blue, indigo
  2. masculine sapphire

    Similar: इंद्रनील, नीलम, नील, नीलमणि, तृणग्राही, शनिप्रिय

  3. masculine indigo

proper noun nīl · नील

  1. Hinduism, masculine Nila, a vanara, brother of Nala and son of Agni in Ramayana रामायण में नल और नील ने समुद्र पर सेतु का निर्माण किया था।
  2. masculine a male given name, Neel, from Sanskrit

नील²

  • /niːl/ Hindi, Standard

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Classical Persian نیل (nīl), from Arabic النِيل (an-nīl), from Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).

proper noun nīl · نیل · नील

  1. masculine Nile (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)

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {नील},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hi/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B2},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}

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