See zilant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for zilant meaning in English (2.5kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ru",
"3": "Зилант"
},
"expansion": "Russian Зилант (Zilant)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "tt",
"3": "yılan"
},
"expansion": "Tatar yılan",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "tt",
"2": "елан",
"3": "",
"4": "snake"
},
"expansion": "елан (yelan, “snake”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Russian Зилант (Zilant), from Tatar yılan/елан (yelan, “snake”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "zilants",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "zilant (plural zilants)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008, Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, volumes 47-48, page 93",
"text": "The creature zilant is depicted. Part snake, part dragon, it has wings and a curled tail, for example on the coat of arms of Kazan dating from 1730. While some of the legends associated with the zilant link it to Bulgar conceptions of \"flying snakes\" found in trees, others legends connect the zilant to the Altai mountains, and specific Turkic ancestors of the Tatars, the Kypchaks.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Steffan Becker, The Mysterious World of Eddy Shade, page 17",
"text": "I called her while you were watching the zilants out your window.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Christina Clarry, The Great Wizard Wars, Troubador Publishing Ltd",
"text": "[…] her eyes locked on the zilant, she unscrewed the vial and waved it under the zilant';s nostrils. Its eyes glazed over and it bowed its head. Hecate had won the battle of wills by blocking the zilant's resistance. The other zilants would follow her […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A winged snake- or dragon-like creature in the mythology of the Russian, Tatar, Chuvash and Mari peoples around Kazan."
],
"id": "en-zilant-en-noun-SreILRG0",
"links": [
[
"snake",
"snake"
],
[
"dragon",
"dragon"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"Russian",
"Russian"
],
[
"Tatar",
"Tatar"
],
[
"Chuvash",
"Chuvash"
],
[
"Mari",
"Mari"
],
[
"Kazan",
"Kazan"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A winged snake- or dragon-like creature in the mythology of the Russian, Tatar, Chuvash and Mari peoples around Kazan."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Zilant"
}
],
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"wikipedia": [
"zilant"
]
}
],
"word": "zilant"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ru",
"3": "Зилант"
},
"expansion": "Russian Зилант (Zilant)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "tt",
"3": "yılan"
},
"expansion": "Tatar yılan",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "tt",
"2": "елан",
"3": "",
"4": "snake"
},
"expansion": "елан (yelan, “snake”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Russian Зилант (Zilant), from Tatar yılan/елан (yelan, “snake”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "zilants",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "zilant (plural zilants)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Russian",
"English terms derived from Russian",
"English terms derived from Tatar",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008, Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, volumes 47-48, page 93",
"text": "The creature zilant is depicted. Part snake, part dragon, it has wings and a curled tail, for example on the coat of arms of Kazan dating from 1730. While some of the legends associated with the zilant link it to Bulgar conceptions of \"flying snakes\" found in trees, others legends connect the zilant to the Altai mountains, and specific Turkic ancestors of the Tatars, the Kypchaks.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Steffan Becker, The Mysterious World of Eddy Shade, page 17",
"text": "I called her while you were watching the zilants out your window.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Christina Clarry, The Great Wizard Wars, Troubador Publishing Ltd",
"text": "[…] her eyes locked on the zilant, she unscrewed the vial and waved it under the zilant';s nostrils. Its eyes glazed over and it bowed its head. Hecate had won the battle of wills by blocking the zilant's resistance. The other zilants would follow her […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A winged snake- or dragon-like creature in the mythology of the Russian, Tatar, Chuvash and Mari peoples around Kazan."
],
"links": [
[
"snake",
"snake"
],
[
"dragon",
"dragon"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"Russian",
"Russian"
],
[
"Tatar",
"Tatar"
],
[
"Chuvash",
"Chuvash"
],
[
"Mari",
"Mari"
],
[
"Kazan",
"Kazan"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A winged snake- or dragon-like creature in the mythology of the Russian, Tatar, Chuvash and Mari peoples around Kazan."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"wikipedia": [
"zilant"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Zilant"
}
],
"word": "zilant"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.