different between deli vs dels

English

Etymology

Attested since 1954. Clipping of delicatessen, from German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), from French délicatesse, derived from the adjective délicat, from Latin delicatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?li/
• Homophone: Delhi
• Rhymes: -?li

Noun

deli (plural delis)

1. (informal) A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
2. (informal) Food sold at a delicatessen.

Translations

Anagrams

• Diel, IDLE, Idle, diel, eild, idle, lied

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish deli (“mad, insane”), perhaps via Serbo-Croatian dèli (“brave”). Doublet of dalia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?li]
• Hyphenation: de?li
• Rhymes: -li

Adjective

deli (comparative delibb, superlative legdelibb)

1. (rare, literary) stalwart, athletic (figure), well-built (person)

Declension

References

Further reading

• deli in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• deli in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Portuguese

Verb

deli

1. first-person singular preterite of delir

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

deli (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of deliti:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic telü, from Proto-Turkic *tälig, *d??l(b)ü- (“mad, stupid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?li/

Noun

deli (definite accusative deliyi, plural deliler)

1. mad, insane

Descendants

• ? Greek: ?????? (delís)
• ? Hungarian: deli
• ? Serbo-Croatian: delija

Declension

Volapük

Noun

deli

1. accusative singular of del

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?d?l??/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?de?li/, /?d?li/

Verb

deli

1. second-person singular present indicative/future of dal

Mutation

Verb

deli

1. Soft mutation of teli.

Mutation

English

Noun

dels

1. plural of del

Anagrams

• EDLs, ELSD, LEDs, SLED, seld, sled

Catalan

Contraction

dels

1. Contraction of de els (“of the, from the (masculine plural)”).

See also

• del

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?e?ls]

Etymology 1

After Middle Low German d?ls, German teils, originally a genitive singular of del (“part”) used adverbially

Adverb

dels

1. partly

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

dels c

1. indefinite genitive singular of del

Norwegian Bokmål

Conjunction

dels

1. part, partly, in part (part this, part that), both and

Derived terms

• til dels

References

• “dels” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

del +? -s, the genitive singular form of del m (“part”). The adverb is a calque of German teils, from Teils, the genitive singular form of Teil (“part”).

Adverb

dels

1. part, partly

   Synonyms: delvis, til dels

Noun

dels m

1. genitive singular of del

Derived terms

• til dels

References

• “dels” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• seld

Occitan

Contraction

dels

1. Contraction of de los.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Conjunction

dels

1. part, partly, in part (part this, part that), both and

   Den består dels av nervceller, och dels av stödjande celler som kallas gliaceller.

   It consists in part of nerve cells, and in part of supporting cells which are called glial cells.

   Vårt företag erbjuder dels enkla och robusta nivåvakter, dels mer noggranna givare för mätning och registrering.

   Our company offers both simple and robust level detectors, and also more accurate detectors for measuring and registration.

Usage notes

• The prescribed usage is "dels A, dels B", but one also often sees "dels A, men också B".

Noun

dels

1. indefinite genitive singular of del

Anagrams

• elds, leds

Volapük

Noun

dels

1. plural of del