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jheel
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi ??? (jh?l)/Urdu ????? (jh?l).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?i?l/
Noun
jheel (plural jheels)
- (India) A pond, marsh, lake or similar wetland area, usually with significant vegetation providing shelter and/or food to a variety of aquatic and semi-aquatic animal species.
References
- http://usgs.wildlifeinformation.org/S/00Ref/KeywordsContents/J/jheel.htm
- http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jheel
- http://dict.hinkhoj.com/words/meaning-of-JHEEL-in-hindi.html
- http://www.wordnik.com/words/jheel
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jeel
English
Etymology 1
Noun
jeel (plural jeels)
- Alternative form of jheel
- 1820, Walter Hamilton, A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Description of Hindostan and the Adjacent Countries, Volume 1, page 246,
- The pieces of stagnant water may be divided into jeels which contain water throughout the year, and chaongre which dry up in the cold season.
- 1827, East India Company, Journey across the Arracan Mountains, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 23, page 16,
- On the banks of this jeel the party encamped, about two miles from the village.
- 1827, The Burmese War: Operations on the Sihet Frontier, 1824, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Volume 24, page 551,
- The reports of some hircarrahs having induced a belief that a short passage might be discovered across the jeels from the Gogra towards Tilyn, Lieut. Fisher, of the Quarter-Master General's department, was despatched to reconnoitre the outlets from that river, accompanied by Lieut. Craigie and five sipahees, in two dingees.
- 1820, Walter Hamilton, A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Description of Hindostan and the Adjacent Countries, Volume 1, page 246,
Etymology 2
Manx jeeyl, jeeill ("damage"), cognate to Irish díobháil.
Noun
jeel
- (Isle of Man) Damage; harm.
- 1889, Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch: And Other Poems, page 79:
- And the gel, you know, as freckened as freckened,
- Because of coorse she navar reckoned
- But Misthriss Banks could do the jeel 1
- She was braggin she could, and she'd take and kneel
- On her bended knees, and she'd cuss — the baste !
- […]
- 1 Damage.
- 1908, Cushag (Josephine Kermode), Eunys, Or the Dalby Maid, page 16:
- An' first an' last upon the flure, an' spinnin' at the wheel,
- But that strange silence on her still of what had done the jeel.
- 1924, Sophia Morrison, Edmund Goodwin, A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect,
- page 73, entry "Govvag":
- The jeel (damage) the govags is doin to the nets is urrov all marcy.
- page 188, entry "Traa-dy-liooar":
- An' the wan (one) that's doin all the jeel (damage) is wickad Traa-dy-liooar (Time-enough). (Cushag.)
- page 73, entry "Govvag":
- 1889, Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch: And Other Poems, page 79:
Further reading
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “jeel”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume III (Hoop–O), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
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