Type Country
Usage Spanish, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Portuguese, Romanian, Georgian
Scripts ჩილე(Georgian)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈt͡ʃi.le/(Spanish) /ˈt͡ʃɪl.eɪ/(English) /ˈt͡ʃɪl.i/(English) /ˈt͡ʃiː.lə/(German) /ˈçiː.lə/(German) /ˈt͡ʂi.lɛ/(Polish) /ˈt͡ʃiː.lɛ/(Hungarian) /ˈt͡ʃɪ.lɛ/(Czech) /t͡ʃi.lɛ/(Georgian) [key·simplify]
Meaning & History
The name of a country in South America, possibly from Quechua chiri meaning "cold" or Mapuche chülle meaning "seagull". This name was applied to the region by the conquistador Diego de Almagro.
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Other Languages & CulturesChili(Afrikaans) Tshili(Arabic) Čile(Bosnian) Chili(Bulgarian) Xile(Catalan) Čile(Croatian) Chili(Dutch) Chili(French) Chili(Greek) Chili(Indonesian) Cile(Italian) Chiri(Japanese) Chili(Kazakh) Chili(Kyrgyz) Čīle(Latvian) Čilė(Lithuanian) Chili(Mongolian) Shili(Persian) Chili(Russian) Čile(Serbian) Čile(Slovak) Čile(Slovene) Chili(Tajik) Chili(Thai) Şili(Turkish) Chili(Uzbek)
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