jhil
jhil is the alternative form of jheel.
Meaning of jheel
Noun
jheel (plural jheels)
- A pond, marsh, lake or similar wetland area, usually with significant vegetation providing shelter and/or food to a variety of aquatic and semi-aquatic animal species.
- In Spring, it is ablaze with roses; in Summer, the roses die and the hot winds blow from the hills; in Autumn, the white mists from the jhils cover the place as with water, and in Winter the frosts nip everything young and tender to earth-level.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 59
Forms of jhil
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Questions about jhil
- What is jhil the alternative form of?
- Jhil is the alternative form of jheel.
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