English

Noun

bile ‎(usually uncountable, plural biles)

1. (biochemistry) 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.
2. bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
3. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
   • 1890, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott:

     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:

     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.

Synonyms

• gall

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Akin to Dutch buil and German Beule.

Noun

bile ‎(plural biles)

1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).

Verb

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

1. Eye dialect 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 […]

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *bālnai, from Proto-Indo-European *bhḷəno, from *bʰel- ‎(“to blow, swell”), related to bolle. Compare Ancient Greek φαλλός ‎(phallós, “****”), Latin follis ‎(“bellows”), Old Irish ball ‎(“member, body part”) and Modern High German Bille ‎(“****”)

Noun

bile f

1. ****

Related terms

• bolle

French

Pronunciation

Noun

bile f ‎(uncountable)

1. bile

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲɪlʲə/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bile m ‎(genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

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

Derived terms

• bile buí ‎(“corn marigold”)
• bile measa ‎(“arbitrator”)
• biliúil ‎(“tree-like, stately”, adjective)

Etymology 2

Noun

bile m ‎(genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

1. rim

Declension

Mutation

References

• "bile" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 bile” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbile/

Etymology

From Latin bīlis ‎(“bile”).

Noun

bile f ‎(plural bili)

1. (physiology) bile

Derived terms

See also

• fiele

Anagrams

• beli

Latin

Noun

bīle

1. ablative singular of bīlis

Old Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲilʲe/

Noun

bile m ‎(genitive bili, nominative plural bili)

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

Declension

Derived terms

• bilech, biledach

Descendants

• Irish: bile
• Manx: billey

Mutation

References

• “1 bile” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Portuguese

Noun

bile f (uncountable)

1. gall; bile

Synonyms

• fel, bílis

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

Noun

bile f ‎(genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

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

Etymology 2

Borrowing from English bill.

Noun

bile m ‎(genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

1. bill (for law)

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• bilèsi

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish bile).

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

bìle ‎(Cyrillic spelling бѝле)

1. (regional) moreover, even

   bile je i on došao čak i on — even he came

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish [Term?], from Old Turkic birle, from Proto-Turkic *bile ‎(“with, together, also”).

Conjunction

bile

1. neither, even

West Frisian

Noun

bile ? ‎(plural bilen)

1. axe