Chile

See also: chile, Chíle, and Chi-lê

English

Alternative forms

• Chili (dated, now rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Chile, probably from Quechua chiri (“cold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪl.e/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiː.leɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃileɪ/, /ˈt͡ʃilɛ/, /ˈt͡ʃɪli/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪli, -ɪleɪ
• Homophones: chile, chili, chilli, chilly

Proper noun

Chile

2. A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Chile. Capital and largest city: Santiago.

   While I come from Chile, my husband is from England.

Derived terms

• Chile pine

 

Translations

country in South America

• Abkhaz: Чили (Čili)
• Adyghe: Чили (Čili)
• Afrikaans: Chili
• Akan: Kyili
• Albanian: Kili (sq) f (indefinite), Kilia f
• Amharic: ቺሌ m (čile)
• Arabic: تْشِيلِي (ar) f (tšīlī), شِيلِي f (šīlī),

  Hijazi Arabic: تْشيلي f (tšīli)

• Armenian: Չիլի (Čʻili)
• Assamese: চিলি (sili)
• Asturian: Chile (ast)
• Aymara: Chili
• Azerbaijani: Çili (az)
• Basque: Txile
• Belarusian: Чы́лі f (Čýli)
• Bengali: চিলি (bn) (cili)
• Bhutanese: ཅི་ལེ (ci le)
• Breton: Chile (br)
• Bulgarian: Чи́ли (bg) n (Číli)
• Burmese: ခ္ယီလီ (hka.yili)
• Catalan: Xile (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 智利 (zi³ lei⁶)

  Mandarin: 智利 (zh) (Zhìlì)

• Czech: Chile (cs) n
• Danish: Chile (da) n
• Dhivehi: ޗިލީ (cilī)
• Dutch: Chili (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ĉilio (eo)
• Estonian: Tšiili (et)
• Farefare: Tcile, Tcili, Sili
• Faroese: Kili (fo)
• Finnish: Chile (fi)
• French: Chili (fr) m
• Galician: Chile (gl) m
• Georgian: ჩილე (čile)
• German: Chile (de) n
• Greek: Χιλή (el) f (Chilí)
• Gujarati: ચીલી (cīlī)
• Haitian Creole: Chili
• Hebrew: צִ׳ילֶה f (chíle)
• Hindi: चिली (hi) m (cilī)
• Hungarian: Chile (hu)
• Icelandic: Chile (is) f, Síle (is) f
• Ido: Chile (io)
• Indonesian: Chili (id)
• Interlingua: Chile (ia)
• Irish: An tSile f
• Italian: Cile (it) m
• Japanese: チリ (ja) (Chiri)
• Kalenjin: Chile
• Kamba: Chile
• Kannada: ಚಿಲಿ (kn) (cili)
• Kazakh: Чили (kk) (Çili)
• Khmer: ស៊ីលី (km) (siilii)
• Kikuyu: Chile
• Korean: 칠레 (ko) (Chille)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Şilî (ku), Şîlî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Чили (ky) (Cili)
• Lao: ຊີເລ (sī lē)
• Latin: Cile, Chile (la)
• Latvian: Čīle (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Čilė (lt) f
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Chili (nds)

  German Low German: Chile (nds)

• Luhya: Chile
• Luo: Chile
• Macedonian: Чиле (mk) n (Čile)
• Malay: Chile (ms)
• Malayalam: ചിലി (ml) (cili)
• Maltese: iċ-Ċilì
• Mapudungun: Chile
• Meru: Chile
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Чили (Čili)

• Navajo: Chíilii
• Nepali: चिली (cilī)
• Norman: Chile m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Chile (no) n

• Odia: ଚିଲି (or) (cili)
• Ossetian: Чили (Ḱili)
• Pashto: چيلي f (čili)
• Persian:

  Dari: چِلِی (čilī)

  Iranian Persian: شیلی (fa) (šili)

• Polish: Chile (pl) n
• Portuguese: Chile (pt)
• Punjabi: ਚਿਲੀ (cilī)
• Quechua: Chili
• Rapa Nui: Tire
• Rarotongan: Tīre
• Romanian: Chile (ro) n
• Russian: Чи́ли (ru) f or n (Číli)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Чи̏ле m

  Roman: Čȉle (sh) m

• Sicilian: Cili m
• Sinhalese: චිලි (cili)
• Slovak: Čile n
• Slovene: Číle (sl) m
• Spanish: Chile (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: Chili
• Swahili: Chile (sw)
• Swedish: Chile (sv) n
• Tagalog: Tsile, Chile
• Tajik: Чили (tg) (Čil-i)
• Tamil: சிலி (cili)
• Tatar: Чили (Çili)
• Telugu: చిలీ (te) (cilī)
• Thai: ชิลี (th) (chí-lii)
• Tibetan: ཅི་ལི (ci li)
• Tigrinya: ቺሌ (čile)
• Turkish: Şili (tr)
• Turkmen: Çili
• Ukrainian: Чи́лі (uk) f (Čýli)
• Urdu: چِلِی m (cilī)
• Uzbek: Chili (uz)
• Vietnamese: Chi-lê
• Volapük: Cilän (vo)
• Yiddish: טשילע n (tshile)
• Yoruba: Ṣílè

See also

• (countries of South America) country of South America; Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

Anagrams

• Liech., cheli-, chiel, elchi, lechi

Alemannic German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈχi.lə/

Noun

Chile f (plural Chilene, diminutive Chileli)

1. (Aargau, Basel, Bern, Fribourg, Lucerne, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Uri, Zug, St Gallen (Amden), Zürich) Alternative form of Chirche
   • 1978, Rolf Lyssey and Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher (transcript):

     Si, wi haist jetzt au no di Pizzeria in Lecce, hinder de Chile?

     Hey, what's the name of the pizzeria in Lecce, behind the church?

Asturian

Proper noun

Chile m

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Chile

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Chile

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Chile, from Quechua chiri (“cold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɪlɛ]
• Homophone: čile
• Rhymes: -ɪlɛ
• Hyphenation: Chi‧le

Proper noun

Chile n (indeclinable, related adjective chilský, demonym Chilan, female demonym Chilanka)

1. Chile (a country in South America; official name: Chilská republika)

See also

• (countries of South America) státy Jižní Ameriky; Argentina, Bolívie, Brazílie, Chile, Ekvádor, Guyana, Kolumbie, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay, Venezuela

Further reading

• “Chile”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Chile”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Chile”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

Proper noun

Chile

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Related terms

• chilener, chilenser
• chilensk, chilensisk

Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish Chile, from Quechua chiri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃiːle/, [ˈʃiːle̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃiːle/, [ˈt̪ʃiːle̞]
• Rhymes: -iːle
• Hyphenation^(key): Chi‧le

Proper noun

Chile

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Declension

Inflection of Chile (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		Chile	—
genitive		Chilen	—
partitive		Chileä	—
illative		Chileen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Chile	—
accusative	nom.	Chile	—
	gen.	Chilen
genitive		Chilen	—
partitive		Chileä	—
inessive		Chilessä	—
elative		Chilestä	—
illative		Chileen	—
adessive		Chilellä	—
ablative		Chileltä	—
allative		Chilelle	—
essive		Chilenä	—
translative		Chileksi	—
abessive		Chilettä	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Chile (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Chileni — accusative nom. Chileni — gen. Chileni genitive Chileni — partitive Chileäni — inessive Chilessäni — elative Chilestäni — illative Chileeni — adessive Chilelläni — ablative Chileltäni — allative Chilelleni — essive Chilenäni — translative Chilekseni — abessive Chilettäni — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Chilesi — accusative nom. Chilesi — gen. Chilesi genitive Chilesi — partitive Chileäsi — inessive Chilessäsi — elative Chilestäsi — illative Chileesi — adessive Chilelläsi — ablative Chileltäsi — allative Chilellesi — essive Chilenäsi — translative Chileksesi — abessive Chilettäsi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Chilemme — accusative nom. Chilemme — gen. Chilemme genitive Chilemme — partitive Chileämme — inessive Chilessämme — elative Chilestämme — illative Chileemme — adessive Chilellämme — ablative Chileltämme — allative Chilellemme — essive Chilenämme — translative Chileksemme — abessive Chilettämme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Chilenne — accusative nom. Chilenne — gen. Chilenne genitive Chilenne — partitive Chileänne — inessive Chilessänne — elative Chilestänne — illative Chileenne — adessive Chilellänne — ablative Chileltänne — allative Chilellenne — essive Chilenänne — translative Chileksenne — abessive Chilettänne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Chilensä — accusative nom. Chilensä — gen. Chilensä genitive Chilensä — partitive Chileään Chileänsä — inessive Chilessään Chilessänsä — elative Chilestään Chilestänsä — illative Chileensä — adessive Chilellään Chilellänsä — ablative Chileltään Chileltänsä — allative Chilelleen Chilellensä — essive Chilenään Chilenänsä — translative Chilekseen Chileksensä — abessive Chilettään Chilettänsä — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• chileläinen

 

compounds

• chilendegu
• chilenhemuli
• chilenhirvi
• chilenpudu
• chilenpussirotta
• chilenrotta
• chilensalpietari
• chilentinami
• chilentsintsillarotta

 

Galician

Proper noun

Chile

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• chileno

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiːlə/, /ˈʃiːlə/, /ˈçiːlə/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Chile n (proper noun, genitive Chiles or (optionally with an article) Chile)

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• Chilene
• chilenisch

Further reading

• “Chile” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃiːlɛ]
• Hyphenation: Chi‧le
• Rhymes: -lɛ

Proper noun

Chile

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Chile	—
accusative	Chilét	—
dative	Chilének	—
instrumental	Chilével	—
causal-final	Chiléért	—
translative	Chilévé	—
terminative	Chiléig	—
essive-formal	Chileként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Chilében	—
superessive	Chilén	—
adessive	Chilénél	—
illative	Chilébe	—
sublative	Chilére	—
allative	Chiléhez	—
elative	Chiléből	—
delative	Chiléről	—
ablative	Chilétől	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Chiléé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Chilééi	—

Possessive forms of Chile
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Chilém	—
2nd person sing.	Chiléd	—
3rd person sing.	Chiléje	—
1st person plural	Chilénk	—
2nd person plural	Chilétek	—
3rd person plural	Chiléjük	—

Derived terms

• chilei

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi.le/
• Hyphenation: Chi‧le

Proper noun

Chile

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Mapudungun

Proper noun

Chile

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Chile

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Related terms

• chilener
• chilensk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Chile

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Related terms

• chilen, chilenar
• chilensk

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʂi.lɛ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ilɛ
• Syllabification: Chi‧le

Proper noun

Chile n (indeclinable, related adjective chilijski)

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• Chilijczyk
• Chilijka

 

See also

• (countries of South America) kraje Ameryki Południowej; Argentyna, Boliwia, Brazylia, Chile, Ekwador, Gujana, Kolumbia, Paragwaj, Peru, Surinam, Urugwaj, Wenezuela

Further reading

• Chile in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Chile in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.li/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.li/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.le/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.lɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.lɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.lɨ/

• Hyphenation: Chi‧le

Proper noun

Chile m

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• chileno

Descendants

• → Japanese: チリ (Chiri)

Spanish

Etymology

From Quechua chiri (“cold”) or chili, or from Mapudungun chilli (“seagull Larus dominicanus”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃile/ [ˈt͡ʃi.le]

• Audio (Spain); “Chile; capital: Santiago de Chile”:

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• Rhymes: -ile
• Syllabification: Chi‧le

Proper noun

Chile m

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• chileno

 

Descendants

• → Rapa Nui: Tire

Further reading

• “Chile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Chile n (genitive Chiles)

1. Chile (a country in South America)

Related terms

• chilensk
• chilenare
• chilenska

References

• Chile in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

Western Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Chile

1. Chile (a country in South America)