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. One of the earliest genericized trademarks in Indonesian, since it followed the French pronunciation of the surname (/ʒi.lɛt/).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

silèt (uncountable)

1. razor blade (a thin piece of steel with a sharp edge that can be fitted into a razor)

   Hypernym: pisau cukur

Derived terms

• bersilet
• menyilet
• penyiletan

Descendants

• → Ternate: silet

Further reading

• “silet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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 [with minn]

   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