elim

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See also: Elim, and élim

English

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Noun

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elim (plural elims)

  1. (sports) Abbreviation of elimination.

Akolet

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Noun

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elim

  1. woman

Further reading

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  • ABVD, citing Hiroko Sato

Nzadi

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Noun

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elim (plural elim)

  1. The African brown knifefish.

Further reading

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  • Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish الیم (elim), from Arabic أَلِيم (ʔalīm).

Adjective

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elim (dated)

  1. painful
  2. sad, grievous

References

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  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “elim”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “الیم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 192
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN