# hill
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English hil, from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”) (compare also Proto-Germanic *halluz (“stone, rock”)).
Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas, Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian холм (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: hĭl, IPA: /hɪl/
** (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA: [hɪɫ]
** (l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: [hɪo̯], [hɪʊ̯]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪl
* Homophone: he'll (in some dialects)

### Noun

hill (plural hills)
* An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
    The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.
** 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
* A sloping road.
    You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.
* (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
* (US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
    a hill of corn or potatoes
* (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
* The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
    Antonym: dale

#### Hyponyms

* (elevation): hillock, toman (smaller hills)

#### Derived terms

* Adelaide Hills
* ant-hill
* anthill
* Ashford Hill
* Ash Hill
* Ashton under Hill
* Aurora Hill
* Bardon Hill
* Bar Hill
* Barrack Hill
* Barrow Hill
* Barton Hill
* Batasan Hills
* Baulkham Hills
* Berry Hill
* Biggin Hill
* Birley with Upper Hill
* Blackford Hill
* Blue Hill
* Bowen Hills
* Box Hill
* Breedon on the Hill
* Brierley Hill
* Brockley Hill
* Broken Hill
* Buckhurst Hill
* bunny hill
* Burgess Hill
* Burrough on the Hill
* Bush Hill Park
* Caelian Hill
* Callow Hill
* Camp Hill
* Caterham on the Hill
* Chapel and Hill Chorlton
* Cheetham Hill
* Cherry Hill
* Chestnut Hill
* Childs Hill
* Chiltern Hills
* Churchill
* city on a hill
* city upon a hill
* Clapton-on-the-Hill
* Clear Hills County
* Clee Hills
* common hill myna
* Copley Hill
* Coton Hill
* Cotswold Hills
* Crews Hill
* Cross Hills
* Daisy Hill
* Denmark Hill
* Dollis Hill
* downhill
* Dudden Hill
* Dulwich Hill
* dung-hill
* dunghill
* Dunham-on-the-Hill
* Edge Hill, Edgehill
* Elton on the Hill
* fairy hill
* Farmington Hills
* foothill
* Forest Hill, Foresthill
* forhill
* Forty Hill
* Friendly Hills
* Gants Hill
* Gedney Hill
* Gipsy Hill
* Goose Hill, Goosehill
* Gordon Hill
* Granada Hills
* Grange Hill
* Gravelly Hill
* gravity hill
* Gringley on the Hill
* Grove Hill
* Halton Hills
* Hampton Hill
* Harrow on the Hill
* Haverton Hill
* head for the hills
* Herne Hill
* hillbilly
* hill cane
* hill censer
* hill chain
* Hill Chorlton
* Hill City
* hillclimb
* hill climb
* hillclimber
* hillclimbing
* hill climbing
* hill country blues
* hillcraft
* hillcrest
* Hiller
* hiller
* hill fire
* hillfolk
* hill-fort
* hilling
* hillish
* hill-like
* hilllike
* hillman
* hillock
* hill of beans
* Hill of Down
* Hill of Fearn
* hill partridge
* hill pigeon
* hill rat
* hillscape
* hillshade
* hillside
* hillslope
* hillsman
* hillspeople
* hill start
* hill-station
* hill station
* hillstream
* Hillsville
* hill to die on
* hilltop
* hill-topping
* Hilltown
* hilltown
* hill town
* hilltribe
* hill-troll
* hillwalker
* hillwalking
* hillward
* hillwards
* hillwash
* hillwoman
* hillwort
* hilly
* Holly Hills
* Hotchley Hill
* Hough-on-the-Hill
* Hunny Hill
* Ide Hill
* Kenfig Hill
* Kents Hill
* king of the hill
* Laurel Hill
* Laurentian Hills
* Lawrence Hill
* Leighton Hill
* Leith Hill
* Ley Hill
* light on the hill
* Low Hill
* Ludgate Hill
* Magsaysay Hills
* Malvern Hills
* Marble Hill
* Marley Hill
* May Hill
* Mendip Hills
* Merry Hill
* midden-hill
* Mill Hill
* Mills Hill
* mole hill
* molehill
* moothill
* Morton on the Hill
* Mossley Hill
* muckhill
* Muswell Hill
* mute-hill
* Napton on the Hill
* North Hill
* North Hills
* Northwood Hills
* Notting Hill
* Ocker Hill
* old as the hills, older than the hills
* Old Hill
* over the hill
* Panoche Hills
* Park Hill
* Parliament Hill
* Pennant Hills
* Port Hills
* Primrose Hill
* Quantock Hills
* Queenhill
* Quezon Hill
* Quirino Hill
* Red Hill, Redhill
* Red Sea Hills
* Richmond Hill
* Rochester Hills
* Rose Hill, Rosehill
* Rose Hills
* Rouse Hill
* Saddle Hills County
* sandhill
* sandhiller
* Seven Hills
* Shippea Hill
* sidehill
* Sidlaw Hills
* Six Hills
* Smoky Hill
* Smoky Hills
* Snob Hill
* Snow Hill
* Sri Lanka hill myna
* Stamford Hill
* Staple Hill
* Staple Hill and Mangotsfield
* St Giles's Hill
* Strawberry Hill
* Streatham Hill
* Sudbury Hill
* Surrey Hills
* Surry Hills
* Swan Hill
* Sydenham Hill
* Tara Hills
* Telegraph Hill
* Tile Hill
* Tilton on the Hill
* Tower Hill
* Townhill
* Toys Hill
* Trent Hills
* Tulse Hill
* Turners Hill
* Tyler Hill
* underhill
* Underhill
* unhill
* University Hills
* uphill
* up hill and down dale
* up hill and down dell
* Upper Hill
* Warden Hill
* Warren Hill
* West Hill
* West Hills
* Winchmore Hill
* Winston Hills

#### Translations

Albanian: kodër (sq) m, sukë (sq) m
Arabic: تَلّ m (tall), أَكَمَة (ʔakama), هَضْبَة (ar) f (haḍba)
Egyptian Arabic: تل m (tall)
Moroccan Arabic: هضبة f (haḍba), تل m (tall)
Aragonese: pueyo, tozal
Armenian: բլուր (hy) (blur)
Assamese: পাহাৰ (pahar)
Asturian: cerru (ast) m
Avar: гохӏ (goḥʳ)
Azerbaijani: təpə (az)
Baluchi: دک (dikk)
Basque: mendixka (eu), gain, muino (eu)
Bau Bidayuh: pungu, dorod
Belarusian: паго́рак m (pahórak), го́рка f (hórka)
Bengali: পাহাড় (bn) (pahaṛ)
Breton: torgenn (br) m
Brunei Bisaya: bukid
Brunei Malay: bukit
Bulgarian: хълм (bg) m (hǎlm), възвише́ние (bg) n (vǎzvišénie)
Burmese: တောင် (my) (taung), ကုန်းနိမ့် (my) (kun:nim.), တောင်ကုန်း (my) (taungkun:)
Catalan: puig (ca) m, turó (ca) m
Cebuano: bungtod
Central Dusun: nulu
Central Melanau: bukit
Chechen: гу (gu)
Cherokee: ᎦᏚᏏ (gadusi)
Cheyenne: hoéhose
Chickasaw: onchaba
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小山 (xiǎoshān), 山丘 (zh) (shānqiū)
Cornish: bre f
Crimean Tatar: bayır
Czech: kopec (cs) m, vrch (cs) m, pahorek (cs) m
Dalmatian: muncial m
Danish: bakke (da) c
Dutch: heuvel (nl) m
Eastern Bontoc: fib-ilig, naksop ay chontog, filig
Egyptian: (qꜣꜣ m)
Elfdalian: uol m
Esperanto: monteto, altaĵo (eo)
Estonian: mägi (et), küngas
Evenki: урэкэн (urəkən)
Extremaduran: cerru
Farefare: tãŋa class 3/4
Faroese: heyggjur m
Fijian: buke
Finnish: mäki (fi), kukkula (fi), kumpu (fi)
French: colline (fr) f
Gagauz: yılma, tepä
Galician: outeiro (gl) m, castrelo (gl) m, cuíña (gl) f, lomba (gl) f, lombeiro (gl) m, penela (gl) f, penelo (gl) m, montículo (gl) m, touticeira (gl) f, toutizo (gl) m, tarouxolo m, oután m, gomelón m, corga (gl) f, cemba (gl) f, galaio m, beán m, maderno m, bicaño m
Georgian: გორა (ka) (gora), ბორა (ka) (bora), სერი (ka) (seri), ბორცვი (borcvi)
German: Hügel (de) m
Alemannic German: Büel m, Hubel m, Gütsch m (archaic)
Gothic: 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌴 (hlainē)
Greek: λόφος (el) m (lófos)
Ancient: βουνός m (bounós)
Greenlandic: bakki
Hausa: tsauni
Hebrew: גִּבְעָה (he) f (giv'á), תֵּל (he) m (tel)
Higaonon: bongtod
Hiligaynon: bakolod
Hindi: पहाड़ी (hi) m (pahāṛī), पहाड़ (hi) m (pahāṛ), गिरि (hi) m (giri)
Hungarian: domb (hu), kisebb hegy
Icelandic: hæð (is) f, hlíð (is) f, brekka (is) f, hóll (is) m
Ido: kolino (io)
Ilocano: turod
Indonesian: bukit (id)
Ingrian: bygrä, syrjy
Ingush: гув (guv)
Inuktitut: kingaq
Iranun: palau
Irish: cnoc (ga) m
Italian: collina (it) f, colle (it) m
Japanese: 丘 (ja) (おか, oka), 小山 (ja) (こやま, koyama)
Kazakh: төбе (töbe)
Khmer: ភ្នំ (km) (phnum), ទួល (km) (tuəl), ផ្នូក (phnouk)
Kimaragang: sokid
Korean: 언덕 (ko) (eondeok)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گرد (gird)
Kyrgyz: дөбө (ky) (döbö)
Lao: ເນີນ (nœ̄n), ໂນນ (nōn), ໂຄກ (khōk), ເຂົາ (lo) (khao), ພູເຂົາ (phū khao), ພູ (lo) (phū)
Latin: collis (la) m, mons (la) m, clivus m
Latvian: paugurs (lv) m
Lithuanian: kalva (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Hiwwel m
Macedonian: рид m (rid)
Malay: bukit (ms)
Malayalam: കുന്ന് (ml) (kunnŭ), മല (ml) (mala)
Manchu: ᠮᡠᡥᡠ (muhu)
Maori: puke (mi), rangaranga, rangaranga
Marathi: टेकडी f (ṭekḍī)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: курык (kuryk)
Western Mari: кырык (kyryk)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: дов (mn) (dov), өндөрлөг (mn) (öndörlög)
Navajo: dah yiskʼid, yílkʼid
Neapolitan: puojo m, toppa
Norman: mont m
Northern Sami: borri
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ås (no) m
Occitan: puèg (oc) m
Old Anatolian Turkish: دَپَه (däpä)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: брѣгъ m (brěgŭ)
Glagolitic: ⰱⱃⱑⰳⱏ (brěgŭ)
Old Czech: břěh m
Old English: hyll f
Old Frisian: hegel
Omaha-Ponca: qe
Oromo: tabba
Ottoman Turkish: تپه (tepe)
Persian: تپه (fa) (tappe), تبرک (fa) (tabrak), گر (fa) (gar)
Polish: wzgórze (pl) n, pagórek (pl) m, kopiec (pl) m, górka (pl) f
Portuguese: colina (pt) f, morro (pt) m (large)
Potawatomi: kwetak
Quechua: pikchu
Romanian: deal (ro) m or f, colină (ro) f
Rungus: bburul
Russian: холм (ru) m (xolm), го́рка (ru) f (górka), высота́ (ru) f (vysotá), приго́рок (ru) m (prigórok), возвыше́ние (ru) n (vozvyšénije) (elevation)
Sanskrit: गिरि (sa) m (giri)
Scots: hill
Scottish Gaelic: cnoc m, monadh m, sliabh m
Sebop: murong, pungu
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бр̏до n, бре̑г m брије̑г m
Roman: bȑdo (sh) n, brȇg (sh) m, brijȇg (sh) m
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Sicilian: coḍḍi m, cugnu (scn) m, cozzu (scn) m, poju (scn) m, munti (scn) m
Slovak: kopec m, vrch m, vŕšok m
Slovene: hrib (sl) m, grič (sl) m
Somali: taag
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: górka f
Southern Kalinga: takudtud
Southern Ohlone: rini
Spanish: cerro (es) m, loma (es) f, colina (es) f, collado (es) m, alcor (es), otero (es) m, lomada (es) f, lomba f, altozano (es) m
Sundanese: pasir (su)
Swahili: kilima (sw)
Swedish: kulle (sv) c, höjd (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠙꠣꠀꠠ (faaṛ)
Tabasaran: тепе (tepe)
Tagal Murut: tirong
Tagalog: burol (tl)
Tajik: теппа (teppa)
Tamil: குன்று (ta) (kuṉṟu), மலை (ta) (malai)
Taos: ną́nemą
Tatar: калкулык (tt) (qalkulıq), үр (tt) (ür)
Telugu: కొండ (te) (koṇḍa), గుట్ట (te) (guṭṭa)
Thai: ภูเขา (th) (puu-kǎo), เนินเขา, เนิน (th) (nəən)
Tibetan: རི་ཆུང་ཆུང་ (ri chung chung)
Timugon Murut: bulur
Tlingit: gooch
Tocharian B: ṣale
Tumbuka: phili
Turkish: tepe (tr), yokuş (tr)
Turkmen: depe
Tuwali Ifugao: duntug
Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎁𐎓 (gbʿ)
Ukrainian: па́горб m (páhorb), паго́рок m (pahórok), гі́рка f (hírka)
Urdu: پہاڑی m (pahāṛī)
Uzbek: o‘r (uz), tepalik (uz)
Vietnamese: đồi (vi)
Volapük: lubel (vo), (sand) sabalubel, (earth) tailalubel, (rubble, waste) sturotalubel
Welsh: bryn (cy) m, rhiw m or f
West Coast Bajau: belud
West Frisian: heuvel
White Hmong: roob, toj
Woiwurrung: banhul
Yiddish: בערגל (bergl)
Yup'ik: penguq
Zazaki: gedug (diq) m, werazi f :

#### Further reading

* hill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Hill in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

### Verb

hill (third-person singular simple present hills, present participle hilling, simple past and past participle hilled)
* To form into a heap or mound.
** 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:Spread, heaped up, stacked with good things; and redolent of citrons and grapes, hilling round tall vases of wine;
* To heap or draw earth around plants.
** 1977, Gene Weltfish, The Lost Universe: Pawnee Life and Culture, page 102:After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound.

#### Translations
## Yola
### Noun

hill
* Alternative form of hele (“hill”)
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Fearnee Hill.Ferny Hill.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 39