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Anil

//əˈnɪl// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from the Indo-Aryan languages [in turn from Sanskrit] or from the Dravidian languages [in turn from Sanskrit]; variant form Aneel.
  2. 2
    A male given name from Turkish.
Noun
  1. 1
    The indigo shrub; or the indigo dye obtained from the plant. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    shrub of West Indies and South America that is a source of indigo dye wordnet
  3. 3
    Any imine in which the N-radical is a phenyl (or substituted phenyl) group. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically wordnet
  5. 5
    1,4-Benzoquinones including chloranil, DDQ, bromanil, & cyanil. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle French anil, Portuguese anil.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindi अनिल (anil), Marathi अनिल (anil), Kannada ಅನಿಲ್ (anil), Tamil அனில் (aṉil), Malayalam അനിൽ (anil), Bengali অনিল (onil), Nepali अनिल (anil), Urdu اَنِیل (anīl), or Sinhalese අනිල් (anil), from Sanskrit अनिल (anila, “Hindu god of the wind”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Turkish Anıl, from anıl, second-person singular imperative passive of anmak (“to remember; to commemorate”).

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