anil
/əˈnɪl/
anil noun: the indigo shrub; or the indigo dye obtained from the plant.
Noun
anil (countable and uncountable, plural anils)
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Anil
Anil
- 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.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Anil
Anil
- A male given name from Turkish.
anil meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
anil in Hindi
- अनिल, अनील, एनिल
anil in Tamil
- அவுரிச்செடி, அவுரிச்சாயம், நீலச்சாயம்
anil in Marathi
- अनिल, अनील
anil in Urdu
- نیل, نیل کا پودا
More languagesFewer languages
- anil in Bengali
- আনিল, অনিল
- anil in Telugu
- అనీల్, అనిల్
- anil in Malayalam
- അനീൽ, അനിൽ
- anil in Kannada
- ಅನೀಲ್, ಅನಿಲ್
- anil in Punjabi
- ਅਨੀਲ, ਅਨਿਲ
- anil in Gujarati
- અનિલ, અનીલ, એનિલ
- anil in Odia
- ଅନୀଲ, ଆନିଲ୍, ଅନୀଲ୍
- anil in Nepali
- अनिल, अनील
Forms of anil
| plural | anils |
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Origin of anil
From Middle French anil, Portuguese anil.
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”).
Borrowed from Turkish Anıl, from anıl, second-person singular imperative passive of anmak (“to remember; to commemorate”).
Words that rhyme with anil
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- chill
- drill
- Seville
- will
- skill
- still
- frill
- mil
- sill
- swill
- fulfill
- goodwill
- till
- until
- brazil
- downhill
- prill
- quadrille
- shill
- shrill
- thrill
- Chapel Hill
- jill
- McGill
- nill
- squill
- trill
- uphill
- Walton-on-the-Hill
- Baskerville
- dill
- grille
- he'll
- instill
- Ithkuil
- krill
- manille
- nil
- phil
- purple pill
- refill
- remill
- rill
- thill
- twill
- vill
- vril
- 'til
Questions about anil
- What does anil mean?
- Anil means the indigo shrub; or the indigo dye obtained from the plant.
- What is anil in Hindi?
- Anil in Hindi is अनिल, अनील, एनिल. See Anil meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is anil?
- Anil can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce anil?
- Anil is pronounced /əˈnɪl/.
- What is the plural of anil?
- The plural of anil is anils.
Words near anil in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: anil (page history and authors); Anil (page history and authors); anil (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anil (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); anil (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anil (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); anil (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anil (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anil (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anil (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anil (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anil (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anil (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anil (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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