silet

See also: šílet

Indonesian

Etymology

From English Gillette, the name of a popular company producing safety razors, named after their inventor and the company's founder, King C. Gillette.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsilɛt̚/
  • Hyphenation: si‧lèt

Noun

silèt (first-person possessive siletku, second-person possessive siletmu, third-person possessive siletnya)

  1. razor blade
    Synonym: pisau cukur

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Ternate: silet

Further reading

Latin

Verb

silet

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of sileō

Maltese
Root
s-l-t
6 terms

Etymology

From Arabic سَلَتَ (salata).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɪ.lɛt/

Verb

silet (imperfect jislet, past participle mislut, verbal noun slit)

  1. to extract, draw out, pull out
  2. to thin, to make something thin
  3. to detach
  4. to take from [+ minn (object)]
    Kliem mislut mid-diskors ta’ George Vella. ― Words taken from the speech of George Vella.
  5. (lil + pronoun + ruħ/qalb + pronoun) to affect, to move
    kliemek silitli ruħi ― Your words moved me.

Conjugation
    Conjugation of silet
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m slitt slitt silet slitna slittu siltu
f siltet
imperfect m nislet tislet jislet nisiltu tisiltu jisiltu
f tislet
imperative islet isiltu

Ternate
silet

Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian silet, from English Gillette.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈsi.let]

Noun

silet

  1. razor blade

References
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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