# sili
## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chilli.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsili/ [ˈsi.l̪i]
* Hyphenation: si‧li

### Noun

síli (Basahan spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜒ)
* (Naga) chili pepper
    Synonym: lada

#### See also

* labuyo

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chilli.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: si‧li
* IPA: /ˈsili/ [ˈs̪i.l̪ɪ]

### Noun

sili
* Capsicum; a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae
* the fruit of these plants; a chili pepper or bell pepper

## Czech
### Alternative forms

* seli (part)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsɪlɪ]

### Participle

sili
* animate masculine plural past active participle of sít

## Dupaningan Agta
### Noun

sili
* hot pepper

## Fijian
### Verb

sili
* To bathe.

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /síː.lìː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [síː.lìː]

### Noun

sīlī̀ m (plural sīlī̀, possessed form sīlìn)
* Alternative form of silin

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsi.li/
* Rhymes: -ili
* Hyphenation: sì‧li

### Noun

sili m
* plural of silo

### Anagrams

* -lisi, Lisi, lisi

## Karao
### Noun

sili
* hot pepper

## Kavalan
### Noun

sili
* hot pepper

## Latvian
### Noun

sili m
* nominative/vocative plural of sils

## Lingala
### Alternative forms

* nsili, monsili

### Noun

sili class 1 (plural basili class 2)
* louse

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic силити (siliti), from Proto-Slavic *sila (“force”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

a sili (third-person singular present silește, past participle silit) 4th conjugation
* to force someone
* (reflexive) to try one's best

#### Conjugation
## Samoan
### Adjective

sili
* best; highest; superior; noble

#### Derived terms

* silisili

### Verb

sili
* to ask

## Sango
### Noun

sili
* louse

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

sili (Cyrillic spelling сили)
* dative/locative singular of sila

### Verb

sili (Cyrillic spelling сили)
* inflection of siliti:
** third-person singular present
** second-person singular imperative

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From Dutch ziel.

### Noun

sili
* soul
    Synonym: kra

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English seal.

#### Noun

sili class IX (plural sili class X)
* seal (A pinniped, particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

sili
* first-person singular present negative of -la

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish chili, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈsili/ [ˈsiː.lɪ], (colloquial) /ˈsile/ [ˈsiː.lɛ]
* Rhymes: -ili
* Syllabification: si‧li

#### Noun

sili (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜒ)
* chili pepper; pepper (plant and fruit)

##### Alternative forms

* sile

##### Derived terms

* sili-silihan
* silihan
* siling-bilog
* siling-haba
* siling-labuyo
* siling-lara
* siling-panigang
* siling-paraka
* siling-pasiti
* siling-pukinggan
* siling-pula
* sinili
* sinilihan

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /siˈli/ [sɪˈli]
* Rhymes: -i
* Syllabification: si‧li

#### Noun

silí (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜒ)
* winnowing to separate husked rice from the unhusked rice (on a basket tray)

##### Derived terms

* ipagsili
* magsili
* silihin

### Further reading

* “sili”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* isil, siil

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Proto-Common Turkic *silig (“clean, pure, beautiful”), from Proto-Turkic *sīl- (“to clean, purify”). Cognate with Tatar сылу (sılu), Kazakh сұлу (sūlu), Kyrgyz сулуу (suluu), Bashkir һылыу (hılıw), Uzbek suluv (“beautiful, handsome”), etc.

### Adjective

sili
* (obsolete) clean, pure
* (obsolete, figurative) chaste, virtuous

#### Related terms

* silmek
* -ik

### References

* “sili”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

## Tuvaluan
### Verb

sili
* To ask.

## Waray-Waray
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chilli.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsili/, [ˈsi.li]
* Hyphenation: si‧li

### Noun

síli
* chili pepper
    Synonym: harang
* (anatomy, informal) the penis
    Synonyms: buto, lisik, utin

## Yogad
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chili, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

### Noun

sili
* chilli