Nil

Type River
Usage Arabic, French, German, Luxembourgish, Catalan, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Turkish, Azerbaijani
Scripts نيل(Arabic) Нил(Russian, Serbian)
Pronounced Pron. NEEL(Arabic)  [key·IPA]
Note In Turkish and Azerbaijani this name is written with a dotted İ. It appears as NİL in uppercase and nil in lowercase.

Meaning & History

Form of Nile in various languages. In Arabic it is properly written with the definite article: النيل (al-Nil).

Related Names

Other Languages & CulturesNeilos(Ancient Greek) Nilus(Ancient Roman) Nijl(Dutch) Nile(English) Nilo(Italian) Nilo(Portuguese) Níl(Slovak) Nilo(Spanish)
Given Name DescendantsNilay(Azerbaijani) Nil, Nilay(Turkish)
Same SpellingNíl
Entry updated April 25, 2021