silet

== Indonesian == === Etymology === Genericized trademark, from American English Gillette, the name of a popular American company producing safety razors, named after the inventor and the founder of the company, King C. Gillette. This is one of the earliest genericized trademarks in Indonesian, since it followed the French pronunciation of the surname (/ʒi.lɛt/) instead of modern English one (/dʒɪ.ˈlɛt/). === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈsilɛt/ [ˈsi.lɛt̪̚] Rhymes: -ilɛt Syllabification: si‧let === Noun === silèt (plural silet-silet) razor blade (a thin piece of steel with a sharp edge that can be fitted into a razor) Hypernym: pisau cukur ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Ternate: silet === Further reading === “silet”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Latin == === Verb === silet third-person singular present active indicative of sileō == Maltese == === Etymology === Inherited from Arabic سَلَتَ (salata). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsɪ.lɛt/ Rhymes: -ɪlɛt === Verb === silet (imperfect jislet, past participle mislut, verbal noun slit) to extract, draw out, pull out to thin, to make something thin to detach to take from [with minn] Kliem mislut mid-diskors ta’ George Vella. ― Words taken from the speech of George Vella. (lil + pronoun + ruħ/qalb + pronoun) to affect, to move kliemek silitli ruħi ― Your words moved me. ==== Conjugation ==== == Ternate == === Etymology === Borrowed from Indonesian silet, from English Gillette. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈsi.let] === Noun === silet razor blade === References === Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh