different between krill vs brill

English

Etymology

From Dutch kriel (“puny/tiny”), applied to fish fry (in the sense of hatchlings); sometimes interpreted as "whale food".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

krill (plural krill or krills)

1. any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.

Derived terms

• Antarctic krill
• northern krill

Translations

References

• Wikipedia article on krill
• https://web.archive.org/web/20021218082407/http://www.ecoscope.com/krill/

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kril?]
• Rhymes: -il?

Noun

krill (plural krillek)

1. krill

Declension

Synonyms

• világítórák

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (non-standard since 2005) kril

Etymology

Of uncertain origin, related to dialectal kril (krusning); compare with Icelandic kríli.

Noun

krill m (definite singular krillen, indefinite plural kriller, definite plural krillene)

1. krill, several species of crustacean plankton of the order Euphausiacea.
2. (dialectal) synonym of småsild (sprats)

See also

• kril (Nynorsk)

References

• “krill” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “krill_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Portuguese

Noun

krill m (plural krills or krill)

1. krill (small marine crustacean of the class Malacostraca)

Swedish

Etymology

From Norwegian krill.

Noun

krill n

1. krill

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

Possibly from Cornish brilli (“mackerel”), from brithelli, plural of brithel (“mackerel”), from brith (“spotted”).

Noun

brill (plural brills or brill)

1. A type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus.

Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of brilliant.

Adjective

brill (comparative more brill, superlative most brill)

1. (Britain, slang) Wonderful, amusing. Denotes approval of the noun it is applied to, comparable to "cool".

See also

• Wikipedia article on cool