mil

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl
• Homophone: mill

Noun

mil (plural mils)

1. An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to ¹⁄₆₄₀₀ of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also ¹⁄₆₀₀₀ and ¹⁄₆₃₀₀ are used in other countries.
2. A unit of measurement equal to ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
3. A former subdivision (¹⁄₁₀₀₀) of the Maltese lira.
4. (informal, plural "mil") Abbreviation of million.
   • 2010 September, Galen Gondolfi, "Idea Fun(d)", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 79:

     You can get things done without money, but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, and $10 mil is a good starting point.

5. (informal) Clipping of milliliter; mL.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• degree, deg
• radian, rad
• grad
• second
• minute
• for abbreviation, see mil.
• mil-dot

Adjective

mil (not comparable)

1. Clipping of military.

Derived terms

• mil-spec

Anagrams

• ILM, -lim-, lim, MLI, Lim

Aragonese

Etymology

Akin to Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil (indeclinable)

1. one thousand; 1000

   mil llobos ― one thousand wolves

   mil vaques ― one thousand cows

Usage notes

In compound numbers, mil does not inflect or change:

• mil dos ― one thousand two
• mil trenta y nueve ― one thousand thirty-nine
• tres mil ― three thousand
• venti mil ― twenty thousand

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːl/

Etymology 1

From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Cornish mil, Welsh mil, Irish míle.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Etymology 2

From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish myl, Welsh mil), from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol, Scottish Gaelic míl, Manx meeyl), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (“small animal””).

Compare Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, “lamb”), Armenian մալ (mal, “sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock”), Central Kurdish ماڵ (mall, “livestock”), Dutch maal (“calf”).

Noun

mil m (plural miled)

1. (rare) animal

   Synonyms: aneval, loen

Mutation

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Catalan mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmil]
• Rhymes: -il

Numeral

mil m or f

1. (cardinal number) thousand

Noun

mil m (plural mils)

1. thousand

Further reading

• “mil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mil”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “mil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Old Spanish mil, mill, from Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mil

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish mil (“thousand”).

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Breton mil and Welsh mil.

Numeral

mil

1. one thousand

Mutation

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun

mil m

1. honey

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)."

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

mil

1. mile, unit of length of varying value

Declension

Derived terms

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīlle. Doublet of mejlo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mil]
• Hyphenation: mil

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/, [ˈmil]
• Hyphenation: mil

Etymology 1

Clipping of millal.

Conjunction

mil

1. when

Etymology 2

Clipping of millel.

Adverb

mil (not comparable)

1. that

French

Etymology

From Latin milium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /mij/

Noun

mil m (plural mils)

1. (now dialectal) millet

   Synonym: millet

Further reading

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

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/ [ˈmiɫ]
• Rhymes: -il
• Hyphenation: mil

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

Numeral

mil (indeclinable)

1. one thousand; 1000

Etymology 2

1474. From Vulgar Latin *medianile, from Latin mediānus. Compare the cognates mión and molo.

Alternative forms

• bile, milde, minle

Noun

mil m (plural miles)

1. central piece of the Galician cart wheel

   Synonyms: mión, miúl, molo

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mil”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “miil”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “mil” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mil”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mil”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mil”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Gamilaraay

Noun

mil

1. eye

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/

Noun

mil

1. thousand
2. mile (measure of distance)

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto mil, French mille, Italian mille, Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/ [ˈmil]
• Hyphenation: mil

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

   Synonym: ribo

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪl/
• Hyphenation: mil
• Rhymes: -mɪl, -ɪl, -l

Etymology 1

From Dutch mijl, from Middle Dutch mile, ultimately from Latin mīlia.

Noun

mil (plural mil-mil, first-person possessive milku, second-person possessive milmu, third-person possessive milnya)

1. English or American mile, a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.6 km
2. (historical) mijl, Dutch mile or league, a unit of distance equivalent to about 5–6 km
3. milepost, milestone, km marker

   Synonyms: batu, pal, tonggak

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English mail, from Middle English male, from Anglo-Norman male, Old French male (“bag, wallet”), from Frankish *malha (“bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather pouch”).

Noun

mil (plural mil-mil, first-person possessive milku, second-person possessive milmu, third-person possessive milnya)

1. (colloquial) mail: the material conveyed by the postal service.

Further reading

• “mil” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mil, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Latin mel, Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Akin to milis and blas.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /mʲɪlʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /mʲɨ̞lʲ/

Noun

mil f (genitive singular meala)

1. honey

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “mil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “mil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “mil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese mil.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand (1000)

Ladin

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun

mil f (uncountable)

1. honey

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

Inherited from French mille (“thousand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/
• Rhymes: -il

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Lule

Pronoun

mil

1. you (plural)

References

• Antonio Maccioni / Machoni, Arte y vocabulario de la lengua lule y tonocoté (1732)

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic مِيل (mīl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

Noun

mil m (dual milejn, plural mjiel or mili)

1. mile

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German mül, müle, from Old High German mulī, mulin, from Proto-Germanic *mulīnō, *mulīnaz, from Late Latin molīnum (“mill”). Cognate with German Mühle, English mill.

Noun

mil f

1. mill

References

• “mil” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Ngiyambaa

Noun

mil

1. (anatomy) eye

Northern Kurdish

Noun

mil ?

1. arm
2. shoulder
3. neck

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

Noun

mil m or f (definite singular mila or milen, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)

1. (today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres
2. gammel norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
3. engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.

Derived terms

• nautisk mil
• sjømil

References

• “mil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

Noun

mil f (definite singular mila, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)

1. (today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres
2. gammal norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
3. engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.

Usage notes

Indefinite plural miler was made non-standard by the spelling reform of 2012.

Derived terms

• nautisk mil
• sjømil

References

• “mil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• mila

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Related terms

• milen
• milion

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[2], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 648.

Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīlia, plural of the numeral mīlle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

Noun

mīl f

1. mile
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: myle, mile
  • Scots: mile
  • English: mile

Old French

Numeral

mil

1. Alternative form of mile (“thousand”)

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *meli n, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit.

Noun

mil f (genitive melo)

1. honey
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7^d9

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Irish: mil
  • Irish: mil
  • Scottish Gaelic: mil
  • Manx: mill

Mutation

Further reading

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

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish mil and Portuguese mil and Kabuverdianu mil.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand (1000)

Pipil

Etymology

Compare Classical Nahuatl milpan.

Noun

mil

1. cornfield

Further reading

• Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter.
• Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R. Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
• Hyphenation: mil

Adjective

mil m or f

2. one thousand; a thousand; 1000
4. (somewhat poetic) thousands of (very many)

   Synonyms: milhares de, um milhão de

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

Related terms

• milhar

Descendants

• → Kadiwéu: miili

Romanian

Noun

mil n (plural miluri)

1. Obsolete form of milă.

Declension

References

• mil in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mil (genitive mela), from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Welsh mêl, Cornish mill, Breton mel, Latin mel, Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /mʲil/

Noun

mil f (genitive singular mealach or meala, plural mealan)

1. honey

Related terms

• mìlseachd
• mìlse
• milis
• meilc

Mutation

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “mil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[3], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *milъ. Cognate with Polish miły.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /míːl/

Adjective

mȋl (comparative milȇjši, superlative nȁjmilȇjši)

1. kind
2. dear

Inflection

Further reading

• “mil”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish mil or Old Spanish mill, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/ [ˈmil]
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: mil

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Usage notes

• When pluralized as a specific number, the form mil is still used:

  dos mil pesos ― two thousand pesos

  cien mil pesos ― one hundred thousand pesos

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Navajo: mííl
• → Taos: míl, mílą

Noun

mil m (plural miles)

1. (chiefly in the plural) thousand (1000 units of something) (usually in an indefinite sense)

Further reading

• “mil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

Noun

mil c

1. (after 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,000 meters

   Synonyms: nymil, myriameter
2. (between 1699 and 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,688.54 meters

   Synonym: landmil

Declension

Derived terms

• engelsk mil (“mile (in the English sense), international mile”)
• milsvid
• sjumilaskog
• sjumilastövel
• sjömil

See also

• fjärdingsväg
• kilometer

References

• mil in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mil in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mil in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• lim

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmil/ [ˈmil]
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: mil

Numeral

mil (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜎ᜔)

1. thousand

   Synonym: libo

Related terms

Further reading

• “mil”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

• Lim

Tatar

Noun

mil

1. (archaic) a unit of length: 1 mil = 7 çaqrım = 7.467 km (see Obsolete Tatar units of measurement)

Declension

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/

Noun

mil (definite accusative mili, plural miller)

1. mile (measure of length)

Volapük

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Vurës

Etymology

Borrowed from French mille, from Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/

Noun

mil

1. One thousand vatu (currency of Vanuatu).

References

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːl/
• Rhymes: -ɨːl
• Homophone: mul (South Wales)

Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish myl, Breton mil), from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol, Scottish Gaelic míl, Manx meeyl), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (“small animal””).

Compare Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, “lamb”), Armenian մալ (mal, “sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock”), Central Kurdish ماڵ (mall, “livestock”), Dutch maal (“calf”).

Noun

mil m (plural milod)

1. animal, beast, creature
2. vermin (animal not normally eaten by people)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Welsh mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Cornish mil, Breton mil, Irish míle.

Numeral

mil f (plural miloedd)

1. (cardinal number) one thousand

Related terms

• mil blynyddoedd (“millennium”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mil”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Wiradjuri

Alternative forms

• mill

Noun

mil

1. (anatomy) eye

Yagara

Noun

mil

1. eye

References

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Yugara Everyday Words.

Yapese

Verb

mil

1. to run