# dill
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɪl/
* Rhymes: -ɪl
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English dile, from Old English dile (“dill, anise”); from Proto-Germanic *deliz, of uncertain, probably non-Indo-European origin, possibly a west European substrate.
Cognate with Old Saxon dilli, Dutch dille, Swedish dill, German Dill.

#### Noun

dill (countable and uncountable, plural dills)
* Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.
** 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 253:The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of terms[.]
* A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring.
    Synonym: dill pickle

##### Synonyms

* (herb): anet, dillseed, Peucedanum graveolens
* (type of pickle): dill pickle

##### Derived terms

* dillseed
* dillwater
* dill water
* dillweed (Anethum graveolens)
* dilly
* fragrant dill
* garden dill (Anethum graveolens)
* kosher dill
* pharmacy dill

##### Translations

Afrikaans: dille
Albanian: kopër (sq) m
Arabic: شِبِثّ m (šibiṯṯ), شِبِتّ m (šibitt)
Egyptian Arabic: شبت m (šabat)
Hijazi Arabic: شبت m (šibt, šibit)
Armenian: սամիթ (hy) (samitʻ)
Old Armenian: սամիթ (samitʻ)
Azerbaijani: şüyüd (az)
Belarusian: кроп m (krop)
Bengali: শুল্​ফা (bn) (śul​pha)
Bhojpuri: सोवा (sōvā)
Bulgarian: ко́пър (bg) m (kópǎr)
Burmese: စမြိတ် (my) (ca.mrit)
Catalan: anet m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 蒔蘿 / 莳萝 (si$^4$ lo$^4$)
Mandarin: 蒔蘿 / 莳萝 (zh) (shíluó)
Crimean Tatar: taraqot
Czech: kopr (cs) m
Danish: dild (da) c
Dutch: dille (nl) m
Egyptian: (jmst f)
Esperanto: aneto (eo)
Estonian: till (et)
Faroese: dild f
Finnish: tilli (fi)
French: aneth (fr) m, aneth odorant m (species Anethum graveolens)
Galician: aneto (gl) m
Georgian: კამა (ḳama)
German: Dill (de) m
Greek: άνηθος (el) m (ánithos)
Ancient: ἄνηθον n (ánēthon)
Greenlandic: dildi
Hebrew: שָׁמִיר (he) m (shamír), שֶׁבֶת רֵיחָנִי (he) m (shévet rekhaní)
Hindi: सोआ (hi) (soā)
Hungarian: kapor (hu)
Ido: aneto (io)
Indonesian: dil (id), adas sowa
Irish: lus mín m
Italian: aneto (it) m
Japanese: 蒔蘿 (イノンド, inondo), ディル (ja) (diru)
Kannada: ಸಬ್ಬಸಿಗೆ (kn) (sabbasige)
Kazakh: аскөк (askök)
Korean: 딜 (ko) (dil)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شویت (şiwît)
Northern Kurdish: heliz (ku) f
Ladino: dereotu, anito
Lao: ຜັກຊີ (phak sī)
Latin: anēthum n
Latvian: dilles m
Lithuanian: krapas m
Luxembourgish: Dëll m
Macedonian: ко́пар m (kópar), ко́прец m (kóprec), миру́дија f (mirúdija), миро́дија f (miródija)
Malay: adas (ms), adas cina, adas manis
Maori: tiri
Mingrelian: ძერა (ʒera), ცეროცო (ceroco)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dill m
Nynorsk: dill m
Old English: dile m
Ottoman Turkish: دره اوتی (dere otu)
Persian: شوید (fa) (ševid), شبت
Plautdietsch: Dell m
Polish: koper (pl) m (genus Anethum), koperek (pl) m (diminutive), koper ogrodowy m(species Anethum graveolens)
Portuguese: endro (pt) m, aneto (pt) m
Punjabi: ਸੋਆ m (soā)
Romanian: mărar (ro) m
Romansch: dil m, anet m
Russian: укро́п (ru) m (ukróp), укро́п паху́чий m (ukróp paxúčij)
Sanskrit: शतपुष्प (sa) m (śatapuṣpa), शतपुष्पा (sa) f (śatapuṣpā), शतपुष्पिका (sa) f (śatapuṣpikā)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ко̏пар m
Roman: kȍpar (sh) m
Sinhalese: ශතපුෂ්ප (śatapuṣpa)
Slovak: kôpor m
Slovene: koper (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dyla f, kopš m
Upper Sorbian: koprik m
Spanish: eneldo (es) m
Swedish: dill (sv) c
Tabasaran: шивит (šivit)
Tagalog: eneldo
Tamil: சதகுப்பி (ta) (catakuppi), சதகுப்பை (ta) (catakuppai)
Tatar: шөет (şöet)
Thai: ผักชีลาว (pàk-chee-laao)
Turkish: dereotu (tr)
Ukrainian: кріп (uk) m (krip), окрі́п (uk) m (okríp)
Vietnamese: thìa là (vi), thì là (蒔蘿)
Welsh: llysiau'r gwewyr f pl, gwewyrllys m
Yiddish: קאָפּער (koper), קריפּ (krip), קראָפּ (krop) :

#### Verb

dill (third-person singular simple present dills, present participle dilling, simple past and past participle dilled)
* To cook or flavor with dill.
** 2014, Anatoly (Tony) Kandiew, Red Devils, →ISBN, page 139:My mother would pickle them and dill them, and we still had an abundance of fresh vegetables left.

#### See also

* cornichon
* cucumber
* gherkin
* graveolens
* pickled cucumber
* pickle

### Etymology 2

Variant of dull

#### Verb

dill (third-person singular simple present dills, present participle dilling, simple past and past participle dilled)
* To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.
** 1775, Robert Baillie, Letters and Journals: Written by the deceased Mr. Robert Baillie, Principal of the University of Glasgow, page 252:The noise of the Queen's voyage to France is dilled down ; no money for her furniture will be got in haste; and the Cardinal has no will of her mother.
** 1829, Publications - Issue 25, Volume 2, page x:The innocent was punished. The gear is payed and the thieves dilled down.
** 1829, John Spalding, James Skene, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, page vii:The Provincial Assembly sits down. Dr. Guild moderator. Dr. Scroggie preaches. His sermon found faulty. It dills down.
** 1890, Thomas Nield, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England: A Drama, page 23:And there is nought to call them back, while these Curmudgeon generals dill down in their fear.
** 1938, Alexander Ross, Scot. Text S, page 195:That now the dinn o' it wad soon dill down, An' but a story at the last be found.

### Etymology 3

Perhaps a backformation from dilly (“silly”).

#### Noun

dill (plural dills)
* (Australia, informal) A fool.
** 2016, Robert G. Barrett, And De Fun Don't Done: A Les Norton Novel:He could go over and monster his way among the poms, but he was that drunk he'd probably only make a dill of himself.

### References

* “dill”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “dill”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* dill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Anethum graveolens on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Category:Anethum graveolens on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* ↑ “dill”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse dylja, from Proto-Germanic *dilja-, of uncertain, non-Indo-European origin, possibly a substrate.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɪlː/
* Rhymes: -ɪlː

### Noun

dill n (genitive singular dills, no plural)
* dill (Anethum graveolens)

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish dil, from Old Norse dylja, from Proto-Germanic *dilja-, of uncertain, non-Indo-European origin, possibly a substrate.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

dill c (uncountable)
* the herb dill