# Nile
## English
### Alternative forms

* Nilus (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naɪl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪl

### Proper noun

(the) Nile
* A large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world.
** 1844, Pierre Henri Larcher, William Desborough Cooley, Larcher's notes on Herodotus:The seven mouths of the Nile then, from east to west, are the Pelusian, the Mendesian, the Bucolic, the Sebennytic, the Saïtic, the Bolbitine, and the Canopic. Such is the account of Heredotus.
** 2016 March 6, “Special Districts”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 4, via HBO:A river you think so little about, you don’t even realize that’s not the Nile, this is the Nile.
* Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio, a township in Ohio, United States, named after the river.

#### Derived terms

* Blue Nile
* denial is not a river in Egypt
* Nile bird
* Nile fox
* Nile goose
* Nile tilapia
* West Nile encephalitis
* White Nile

#### Translations

Afrikaans: Nyl, Nylrivier
Albanian: Nili
Amharic: አባይ (am) (ʾäbay)
Arabic: اَلنِّيل (ar) m (an-nīl)
Aramaic:
Armenian: Նեղոս (hy) (Neġos)
Asturian: Nilu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: Nil (az)
Basque: Nilo
Belarusian: Ніл m (Nil)
Bengali: নীলনদ (nilonod)
Breton: Nil
Bulgarian: Нил m (Nil)
Burmese: နိုင်းမြစ် (nuing:mrac)
Catalan: Nil (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 尼羅河 / 尼罗河 (zh) (Níluó hé)
Coptic:
Bohairic: Ⲫⲓⲁⲣⲟ m (Phiaro)
Sahidic: Ⲡⲉⲓⲉⲣⲟ m (Peiero)
Czech: Nil (cs) m
Danish: Nilen c
Dutch: Nijl (nl) m
Egyptian: (ḥꜥpj m), (jtrw m)
Esperanto: Nilo (eo)
Estonian: Niilus (et)
Faroese: Nílá f
Finnish: Niili (fi)
French: Nil (fr) m
Old French: Nil m
Galician: Nilo (gl) m
Georgian: ნილოსი (nilosi)
German: Nil (de) m
Greek: Νείλος (el) m (Neílos)
Ancient: Νεῖλος m (Neîlos)
Syriac: ܢܝܠܘܣ (Nīlōs)
Hausa: Nil
Hebrew: נִילוּס (nilus), יְאוֹר (he) m (y'ór), שיחור \ שִׁחוֹר m (shikhór), נְהַר מִצְרַיִם m (n'har mitsráyim)
Hindi: नील (hi) (nīl)
Hungarian: Nílus (hu)
Icelandic: Níl f
Indonesian: Nil
Irish: An Níl f
Italian: Nilo (it) m
Japanese: ナイル川 (Nairu-gawá)
Kannada: ನೈಲ್ (nail)
Kazakh: Ніл (Nıl)
Khmer: ទន្លេ​នីល (tŭənlei-niil), នីល (niil)
Korean: 나일 강 (Nail gang)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Nîl (ku) m
Kyrgyz: Нил (Nil)
Latin: Nīlus m
Latvian: Nīla f
Lithuanian: Nilas m
Macedonian: Нил m (Nil)
Malay: Nil
Malayalam: നൈൽ നദി (nail nadi)
Manx: Yn Neel
Marathi: नाईल f (nāīl)
Navajo: Náál
Nobiin: Aman dawū (ⲁⲙⲁⲛ ⲇⲁⳣⲟ̅ⲩ̅, امان داوو)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Nilen m
Nynorsk: Nilen m
Occitan: Nil (oc) m
Old Norse: Níl f
Old Persian: 𐎱𐎡𐎼𐎠𐎺 (p-i-r-a-v /⁠Pirāva⁠/)
Ottoman Turkish: نیل (nil)
Persian: نیل (fa) (nil)
Polish: Nil (pl) m
Portuguese: Nilo (pt) m
Punjabi: ਨੀਲ (nīl)
Romanian: Nil m
Romansch: Nil
Russian: Нил (ru) m (Nil)
Scottish Gaelic: Nile f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Нил m
Roman: Nil (sh) m
Slovak: Níl m
Slovene: Nil (sl) m
Somali: Niil
Spanish: Nilo (es) m
Swedish: Nilen (sv)
Tagalog: Nilo
Tajik: Нил (Nil)
Tamil: நைல் (nail)
Telugu: నైలు నది (nailu nadi)
Thai: แม่น้ำไนล์ (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-nail)
Turkish: Nil (tr)
Turkmen: Nil
Ukrainian: Ніл m (Nil)
Uzbek: Nil
Vietnamese: Nin, Nhĩ Lô (rare)
Welsh: Nîl
West Frisian: Nyl :

#### See also

* Branches of the Nile:
** Bolbitine (Bolbitic)
** Bucolic (Phatnitic, Phatnic, Phatmetic, Athribitic)
** Canopic (Herakleotic, Heracleotic, Naucratitic)
** Mendesian (Tanitic, Busiritic)
** Pelusian (Bubastic)
** Saïtic
** Sebennytic (Thermutiac)

### Anagrams

* LEIN, LINE, Line, Neil, Niel, lien, line