cyle
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
cyle (plural cyles)
- Alternative form of sile
Anagrams[edit]
Albanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Through many variations ultimately a variant of surle from Ottoman Turkish زورنا (zurna).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cyle m (plural cyle)
- (music) Short, single- or double-barreled double-reed instrument with eight fingerholes. aulos, tibia
- tibia, shinbone
- snout (of a pig)
- (music) chanter (of a bagpipe)
Further reading[edit]
- “cyle”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 234b