From Middle French anil, Portuguese anil.

anil (countable and uncountable, plural anils)

1. The indigo shrub; or the indigo dye obtained from the plant.
2. (organic chemistry) Any imine in which the N-radical is a phenyl (or substituted phenyl) group.
3. (organic chemistry) 1,4-Benzoquinones including chloranil, DDQ, bromanil, & cyanil.

• aniline

• → Irish: anail

• I-lan, INLA, Ilan, LNAI, Lain, Lani, Lian, Lina, Nila, lain, nail

Borrowed from Arabic نِيل (nīl) via Andalusian Arabic, from Persian نیل (nil, “indigo”), from Middle Persian, ultimately from Sanskrit नील (nīla, “dark blue”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
• Hyphenation: a‧nil

anil m (plural anis)

1. indigo (color)

   Synonym: índigo

• → Língua Geral Amazônica: andira

• “anil”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “anil”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026