# mil

| ㏕ | U+33D5, &#13269; SQUARE MIL |
| ← ㏔ [U+33D4] | CJK Compatibility | ㏖ → [U+33D6] |

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪl
* Homophone: mill

### Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin millesimum. The clippings come by way of the clipped words (e.g., millilitre, millimetre, milliradian).

#### Noun

mil (plural mils)
* An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to $^1$⁄$_{6400}$ of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also $^1$⁄$_{6000}$ and $^1$⁄$_{6300}$ are used in other countries.
* A unit of measurement equal to $^1$⁄$_{1000}$ of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
    Synonym: thou
    Alternative form: mill
    For this task, I prefer the plastic sheeting that is 10 mils thick.
* A former subdivision ($^1$⁄$_{1000}$) of the Maltese lira.
* (informal) Clipping of milliliter.
    Synonyms: mL, ml, cm³, cc
    We told her to give her daughter ten mils of cough syrup and to call us back if the cough gets worse.
* (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
    Synonym: mm
    Alternative form: mill
    For this task, I prefer the plastic bars that are 10 mils in diameter.
* (informal) Clipping of milliradian.
    A dot in a mil-dot reticle represents one mil, which corresponds to a few inches at 100 yards.

##### Derived terms

* circular mil
* mil-dot
* per mil

##### Translations
#### See also

* degree, deg
* grad
* mil.
* minute
* radian, rad
* second

### Etymology 2

Clipping of million.

#### Noun

mil (plural mil)
* (informal) Clipping of million.
    Word has it that they were offered a cool ten mil to sell their farm to the land developers.
** 2009, Bob Frey, The DVD Murders, page 39:The cheapest shack in this part of the woods would probably set the buyer back at least a couple of mil.
** 2010 September, Galen Gondolfi, "Idea Fun(d)", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 79:
    You can get things done without money, but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, and $10 mil is a good starting point.

### Etymology 3

Clipping of military.

#### Adjective

mil (not comparable)
* Clipping of military.

##### Derived terms

* mil-spec

##### Related terms

* milblog
* milblogger

### Anagrams

* ILM, -lim-, lim, MLI, Lim

## Aragonese
### Etymology

Akin to Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

### Numeral

mil
* thousand

## Asturian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin mīlle.

### Numeral

mil (indeclinable)
* one thousand; 1000
    mil llobos ― one thousand wolves
    mil vaques ― one thousand cows

#### Usage notes

In compound numbers, mil does not inflect or change:
* mil dos ― one thousand two
* mil trenta y nueve ― one thousand thirty-nine
* tres mil ― three thousand
* venti mil ― twenty thousand

## Breton
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmiːl/

### Etymology 1

From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Cornish mil, Welsh mil, Irish míle.

#### Numeral

mil
* thousand

### Etymology 2

From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish mil, Welsh mil), from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol, Scottish Gaelic míl, Manx meeyl), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (“small animal””).
Compare Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, “lamb”), Armenian մալ (mal, “sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock”), Central Kurdish ماڵ (mall, “livestock”), Dutch maal (“calf”).

#### Noun

mil m (plural miled)
* (rare) animal
    Synonyms: aneval, loen

### Mutation
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmil]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -il

### Numeral

mil m or f
* (cardinal number) thousand

### Noun

mil m (plural mils)
* thousand

### Further reading

* “mil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mil”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “mil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “mil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Old Spanish mil, mill, from Latin mīlle.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: mil

### Numeral

mil
* thousand

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

## Chavacano
### Etymology

Inherited from Spanish mil (“thousand”).

### Numeral

mil
* thousand

## Cornish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mil/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Breton and Welsh mil.

#### Numeral

mil
* one thousand

#### Noun

mil f (plural milyow)
* thousand

##### Derived terms

* milblek (“thousandfold”)
* mildros (“millipede”)
* milves (“thousandth”)
* milvil (“million”)
* milvledhen (“millennium”)
* milweyth (“thousandfold”)

### Etymology 2

From Middle Cornish mil, myl, from Old Cornish mil, Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Proto-Celtic *mīlom, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (“small animal””). Cognate with Breton mil, Irish míol, Manx meeyl, Scottish Gaelic mial, and Welsh mil.

#### Noun

mil m (plural miles)
* animal

##### Derived terms

* bronnvil (“mammal”)
* euthvil (“monster”)
* knivil (“rodent”)
* kramvil (“reptile”)
* milonieth (“zoology”)
* milus (“brutal”)
* milva (“zoo”)
* milvedhek (“vet”)
* morvil (“whale”)

### Mutation
## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

### Noun

mil m
* honey

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)."

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -iːl

### Noun

mil
* mile, unit of length of varying value

#### Derived terms

* nautisk mil
* sømil

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīlle. Doublet of mejlo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mil]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mil

### Numeral

mil
* thousand

## Estonian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmil/, [ˈmil]
* Hyphenation: mil

### Etymology 1

Clipping of millal.

#### Conjunction

mil
* when
    Kord tuleb päev, mil tuleb minna.There will once be a day when we have to go.

### Etymology 2

Clipping of millel.

#### Adverb

mil (not comparable)
* that
    Tänaval oli auto, mil olid punased triibud.There was a car on the street that had red stripes.

## French
### Etymology

From Latin milium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mil/, /mij/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mil m (plural mils)
* (now dialectal) millet
    Synonym: millet

### Further reading

* “mil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

### Numeral

mil
* thousand

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmil/ [ˈmiɫ]
* Rhymes: -il
* Hyphenation: mil

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

#### Numeral

mil (indeclinable)
* one thousand; 1000

### Etymology 2

1474. From Vulgar Latin *medianile, from Latin mediānus. Compare the cognates mión and molo.

#### Alternative forms

* bile, milde, minle

#### Noun

mil m (plural miles)
* central piece of the Galician cart wheel
    Synonyms: mión, miúl, molo
** 1474, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 66:Iten, preçaron hun rrodisioe dous miilles de carro em noventa maravedisItem, they appraised a water wheel and two wheel centers of a cart in ninety maravedis

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mil”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “miil”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “mil” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mil”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mil”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mil”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Cf. Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “medio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Gamilaraay
### Noun

mil
* eye

## Haitian Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mil/

### Noun

mil
* thousand (1,000)
* mile (measure of distance)

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto mil, French mille, Italian mille, Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mil/

### Numeral

mil
* thousand

## Ilocano
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mil.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmil/ [ˈmil]
* Hyphenation: mil

### Numeral

mil
* thousand
    Synonym: ribo

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɪl/
* Hyphenation: mil
* Rhymes: -mɪl, -ɪl, -l

### Etymology 1

From Dutch mijl, from Middle Dutch mile, ultimately from Latin mīlia.

#### Noun

mil (plural mil-mil)
* English or American mile, a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.6 km
* (historical) mijl, Dutch mile or league, a unit of distance equivalent to about 5–6 km
* milepost, milestone, km marker
    Synonyms: batu, pal, tonggak

##### Derived terms

* mil laut

### Etymology 2

From English mail, from Middle English male, from Anglo-Norman male, Old French male (“bag, wallet”), from Frankish *malha (“bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather pouch”).

#### Noun

mil (plural mil-mil)
* (colloquial) mail: the material conveyed by the postal service.

### Further reading

* “mil” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish mil, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Latin mel, Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Akin to milis and blas.

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /mʲɪlʲ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /mʲɨ̞lʲ/

### Noun

mil f (genitive singular meala)
* honey

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
nominative
mil
vocative
a mhil
genitive
meala
dative
mil
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative
an mhil
genitive
na meala
dative
leis an mil don mhil :

#### Derived terms

* beach mheala (“honeybee”)
* broc meala (“ratel, honey badger”)
* ceo meala (“honey dew”)
* cíor mheala (“honeycomb”)
* criathar meala (“honeycomb”)
* cuinneog mheala (“honeycomb cell”)
* drúcht meala (“honey-dew”)
* faireog mheala (“nectary”)
* lus na meala (“balm”)
* mí na meala (“honeymoon”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 99, page 39

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “mil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “mil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “mil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese mil.

### Numeral

mil
* thousand (1000)

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

### Noun

mil f (uncountable)
* honey

### References

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

## Ladino
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish mil or Old Spanish mill, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

### Numeral

mil (Hebrew spelling מיל)
* thousand (1,000)
** 2000, Aki Yerushalayim‎, numbers 62–64, page 76:Diezisiete anyos tenia Moshe Aelion kuando fue deportado por los almanes a Auschwitz, djuntos kon su madre i su ermana i los serka de 60 mil djudios de Saloniko.Moshe Aelion was seventeen years old when he was deported by the Germans to Auschwitz, together with his mother, sister, and around sixty thousand Jews from Salonica.

### References

* ↑ “mil”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Louisiana Creole
### Etymology

Inherited from French mille (“thousand”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mil/
* Rhymes: -il

### Numeral

mil
* thousand

## Lule
### Pronoun

mil
* you (plural)

### References

* Antonio Maccioni / Machoni, Arte y vocabulario de la lengua lule y tonocoté (1732)

## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic مِيل (mīl).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːl/

### Noun

mil m (dual milejn, plural mjiel or mili)
* mile

## Mòcheno
### Etymology

From Middle High German mül, müle, from Old High German mulī, mulin, from Proto-Germanic *mulīnō, *mulīnaz, from Late Latin molīnum (“mill”). Cognate with German Mühle, English mill.

### Noun

mil f
* mill

### References

* “mil” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

## Ngiyambaa
### Noun

mil
* (anatomy) eye

## Northern Kurdish
### Noun

mil ?
* arm
* shoulder
* neck

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

### Noun

mil m or f (definite singular mila or milen, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)
* (today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres
* gammel norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
* engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.

#### Derived terms

* nautisk mil
* sjømil

### References

* “mil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

### Noun

mil f (definite singular mila, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)
* (today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres
* gammal norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
* engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.

#### Usage notes

Indefinite plural miler was made non-standard by the spelling reform of 2012.

#### Derived terms

* nautisk mil
* sjømil

### References

* “mil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* mila

### Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

### Numeral

mil
* thousand

#### Related terms

* milen
* milion

### Further reading

* Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 648.

## Old English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīlia, plural of the numeral mīlle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːl/

### Noun

mīl f
* mile
** late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
    Sardina is þrī and þrītti mīla lang, and twā and twentiġ mīla brād.Sardinia is thirty-three miles long, and twenty-two miles wide.

#### Declension

Strong ō-stem:

#### Descendants

* Middle English: myle, mile
** Scots: mile
** English: mile

## Old French
### Numeral

mil
* Alternative form of mile (“thousand”)

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* mill

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

### Numeral

mil
* thousand (1,000)

#### Descendants

* Galician: mil
* Portuguese: mil
** → Kadiwéu: miili
** > Papiamentu: mil (inherited)

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mil”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mil”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “mil”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN

## Old Irish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *meli n, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit.

### Noun

mil f (genitive melo)
* honey
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7$^d$9
    Hi sunt tra ↄ·ricc frissa lind serb in chúrsactha lase foruillecta beóil in chalich di mil cosse anall...Herein, then, he comes into contact with the bitter drink of the reproval, when the lips of the chalice have hitherto been smeared with honey...

#### Inflection

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

#### Descendants

* Middle Irish: mil
** Irish: mil
** Scottish Gaelic: mil
** Manx: mill

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Old Spanish
### Alternative forms

* mill

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

### Numeral

mil
* thousand (1,000)
** c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 36r.:Job fue much rich õe e ouo .v. fijos. ⁊ .iij. fijas. ⁊ ouo .mil. ouejas. ⁊ .iij. mil. camellos. ⁊ .d. iugos de bueẏes. ⁊ .v. mil aſnas. ⁊ tẽtol el diablo ⁊ diol pođ nr̃o ſẽnor ſobre quãto auia.Job was a very rich man. And he had five sons and three daughters. And he owned a thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five thousand donkeys. And the Devil tempted him and Our Lord gave him power over all that he had.

#### Descendants

* Ladino: mil, מיל
* Spanish: mil
** → Navajo: mííl
** > Papiamentu: mil (inherited)
** → Taos: míl, mílą

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “mil”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 344

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

Inherited from Portuguese mil and Spanish mil and Kabuverdianu mil.

### Numeral

mil
* thousand (1,000)

## Pipil
### Etymology

Compare Classical Nahuatl milpan.

### Noun

mil
* cornfield

### Further reading

* Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter.
* Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R. Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmiw/ [ˈmiʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmil/ [ˈmiɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmil/ [ˈmiɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈmi.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
* Hyphenation: mil

### Adjective

mil m or f
* one thousand; a thousand; 1000
* (somewhat poetic) thousands of (very many)
    Synonyms: milhares de, um milhão de

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

#### Related terms

* milhar

#### Descendants

* → Kadiwéu: miili
* > Papiamentu: mil (inherited)

## Romanian
### Noun

mil n (plural miluri)
* Obsolete form of milă.

#### Declension
### References

* mil in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish mil (genitive mela), from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Welsh mêl, Cornish mill, Breton mel, Latin mel, Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mil/, /mʲil/

### Noun

mil f (genitive singular mealach or meala, plural mealan)
* honey

#### Related terms

* mìlseachd
* mìlse
* milis
* meilc

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “mil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *milъ. Cognate with Polish miły.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /míːl/

### Adjective

mȋl (comparative milȇjši, superlative nȁjmilȇjši)
* kind
* dear

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “mil”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Old Spanish mil or Old Spanish mill, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmil/ [ˈmil]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -il
* Syllabification: mil

### Numeral

mil
* thousand

#### Usage notes

* When pluralized as a specific number, the form mil is still used:
    dos mil pesos ― two thousand pesos
    cien mil pesos ― one hundred thousand pesos

#### Derived terms

* a las mil maravillas
* a mil por hora
* como mil oros
* con mil amores
* con mil diablos
* de mil amores
* diez mil
* las mil
* mil gracias
* mil leches
* mil millones

#### Related terms

* milenio
* millar

#### Descendants

* → Navajo: mííl
* > Papiamentu: mil (inherited)
* → Taos: míl, mílą

### Noun

mil m (plural miles)
* (chiefly in the plural) thousand (1000 units of something) (usually in an indefinite sense)
    Gané muchos miles de dólares.I earned many thousands of dollars

### Further reading

* “mil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)." First attested in the latter half of the 14th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mil c
* (after 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,000 meters
    Synonyms: nymil, myriameter
** 2020 February 19, Maria Dahlin, “Sverige prisas för 2+1-väg [Sweden is praised for 2+1 road]”, in Vi bilägare:IRAP rekommenderar nu bland annat Indien och Mexiko att bygga 2+1-vägar och tar som exempel att 93.000 liv skulle kunna räddas på 20 år i Indien om 1.750 mil mötesväg gjordes om till 2+1-väg.IRAP is now recommending countries like India and Mexico to build 2+1 roads and cites an example that 93,000 lives could be saved over 20 years in India if 17,500 kilometres of two-way roads were converted to 2+1 roads.(literally, “1,750 miles”)
** 2024 August 30, Tindra Näsström, “Humam i Härnösand gick från otränad till att springa tio mil: ”Ville kliva ur min bekväma bubbla” [Humam in Härnösand went from untrained to running ten miles [100 km/62 mi]: "Wanted to step out of my comfort bubble"]”, in SVT Nyheter:Genom att våga pusha sig själv har Humam lyckats springa tio mil på tiden 13 timmar och 28 minuter.By daring to push himself, Humam has managed to run ten miles [100 km/62 mi] in 13 hours and 28 minutes.
** 2025 January 29, Kalle Hultenius, “Ölands fotbolls-vagabonder – åtta mil hemifrån [Öland’s football vagabonds – eight miles [80 km/50 mi] from home]”, in Ölandsbladet:Böda/Högby är vana att jobba över stora ytor och den klassiska minibussen har förmodligen gått miljontals mil de senaste decennierna.Böda/Högby are used to covering vast distances, and their classic minibus has probably clocked up millions of miles over the past few decades.
* (between 1699 and 1889) Unit of length, equal to 18,000 ells or 10,688.54 meters
    Synonym: landmil
** 1831, Fredrik Cederborgh, Berättelse om […] John Hall, page 5:För att kunna åtkomma dylikt, wäl rätt artigt men föga räntegifwande kram, beslöt han, att, med en särdeles wäl försedd kaßa, resa till Danmarks hufwudstad, ungefär trettio mil aflägsen från deß födelseort Götheborg.In order to be able to access such, indeed quite polite but hardly interest bearing hug, he decided, with a particularly well-stocked purse, to travel to Denmark's capital city, about thirty miles distant from their birthplace, Gothenburg.
* (before 1699) Unit of length, with varying measurements depending on time period and region.

#### Derived terms

* engelsk mil (“mile (in the English sense), international mile”)
* milsvid
* sjumilaskog
* sjumilastövel
* sjömil

#### See also

* fjärdingsväg
* kilometer

### References

* ↑ mil in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* mil in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* mil in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* lim

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈmil/ [ˈmil]
* Rhymes: -il
* Syllabification: mil

### Numeral

mil (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜎ᜔)
* thousand
    Synonym: libo

#### Related terms

* amilyaramyento
* diyes mil
* milenarista
* milenaryo
* milenyo
* milya
* milyahe
* milyon
* siyento mil

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* Lim

## Tatar
### Noun

mil
* (archaic) a unit of length: 1 mil = 7 çaqrım = 7.467 km (see Obsolete Tatar units of measurement)

#### Declension
## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmil/

### Noun

mil (definite accusative mili, plural miller)
* mile (measure of length)

## Volapük
### Numeral

mil
* thousand

## Vurës
### Etymology

Borrowed from French mille, from Latin mīlle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mil/

### Noun

mil
* One thousand vatu (currency of Vanuatu).

### References

* ↑ Catriona Malau (September 2021) “mil”, in A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu (Asia-Pacific Linguistics), Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 121

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːl/
* Rhymes: -ɨːl
* Homophone: mul (South Wales)

### Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish mil, Breton mil), from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol, Scottish Gaelic míl, Manx meeyl), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (“small animal””).
Compare Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, “lamb”), Armenian մալ (mal, “sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock”), Central Kurdish ماڵ (mall, “livestock”), Dutch maal (“calf”).

#### Noun

mil m (plural milod, diminutive milyn)
* animal, beast, creature
* vermin (animal not normally eaten by people)

##### Derived terms

* bwystfil (“beast”)
* carfil (“working beast, dray horse, clumsy animal, monster”)
* cawrfil (“elephant”)
* cnofil (“rodent”)
* drewfil (“skunk”)
* mam miloedd (“ mind-your-own-business; ivy-leaved toadflax”)
* milfeddyg (“veterinarian”)
* milodfa (“vivarium”)
* milyn (diminutive)
* morfil (“whale”)
* trychfil (“ creepy-crawly, insect”)

### Etymology 2

From Middle Welsh mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Cornish mil, Breton mil, Irish míle.

#### Numeral

mil f (plural miloedd)
* (cardinal number) one thousand

##### Related terms

* mil blynyddoedd (“millennium”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mil”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

## Wiradjuri
### Alternative forms

* mill

### Noun

mil
* (anatomy) eye

## Yagara
### Noun

mil
* eye

### References

* State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Yugara Everyday Words.

## Yapese
### Verb

mil
* to run