devel

See also: Devel

English

Noun

devel (plural devels)

  1. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of devvel (a hard blow)

Verb

devel (third-person singular simple present devels, present participle develling, simple past and past participle develled)

  1. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of devvel

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English dēofol, dēoful, from earlier dīobul, from Proto-West Germanic *diubul, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdeːvəl/, /ˈdɛvəl/, /deːl/

Noun

devel (plural develes or defles or develen)

  1. Satan, Lucifer (in Early ME, without the definite article)
    • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Summoner's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 1693–1696:
      Right so as bees out swarmen from an hyve, / Out of the develes ers ther gonne dryve / Twenty thousand freres on a route / And thurghout helle swarmed al aboute...
      Just like bees swarm from a hive / Out of the devil's arse there were driven / Twenty thousand friars on a rout / And throughout hell they swarmed all about...
  2. A devil; an evil creature that resides in the Christian hell.
    • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, James 2:19, page 110r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
      þou bileueſt þat o god is .· þou doiſt wel / ⁊ deuelis bileuen .· ⁊ tremblen
      You believe that there's one God; you're doing well. But devils believe, and tremble.
  3. A pagan or heretical god; a deity considered to be false or an idol.
  4. (figurative) A malicious or sinful person; one who is evil.
  5. (rare) A fantastic beast or monstrous creature.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • English: devil (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: deil, deel, deevil
  • Yola: deevil, deel

References

Romani

Alternative forms

Etymology

Two etymologies have been proposed:

  1. Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑁂𑀯𑀉𑀮 (devaüla), from Sanskrit देवकुल (devakula).[1]
  2. Inherited from Sanskrit देवता (devatā).[2][3][4]

Noun

devel m (accusative devles, nominative plural devla, accusative plural devlen)

  1. god[1][3][5][6]
  2. sky[3][5]
  3. heaven[3][5]

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  1. Jules Bloch (1920) “devaḷ deuḷ”, in Dev Raj Chanana, transl., The Formation of the Marāṭhī Language, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House, published 2010, →ISBN, →OCLC, retrieved September 1, 2021, page 351, →ISBN
  2. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dēvátā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 373
  3. Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “devèl”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 70b
  4. Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
  5. Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o dev/el¹, -les m. -la, -len = o de/l²³, -vles m. -vla, -vlen”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 124ab
  6. The template Template:R:NERG+ does not use the parameter(s): 
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