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# How to pronounce "sebil" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/sɛbɪl/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **se·bil**
- **Parts of Speech**: noun
- **NOUN**: A fountain, a small structure in a Muslim area where water is freely dispensed to members of the public.
  - *Example*: "Her tomb is at the far end of the complex, completed in 1796, which also includes a sebil, soup kitchen, school, large cemetery, […]"

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (3 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "sebil" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "So in that way, we're doing like this gigantic simulation of all of the ocean, of all the plastic moving around. Van Sebille thinks that a majority of plastic pollution is within 100 miles of shorelines, continually getting washed back up on beaches, down coastlines, or up and down to the sea floor. If the plastic continuously goes back and forth between the coastline and offshore, that's a lot of rubbing and fragmenting and scraping over the sand."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsjvwQclGLo&t=403s)

### Example 2
> "Some of that will end up in the middle of the ocean and garbage patch, but actually a lot of it stays fairly near shore and hop from beach to beach to beach. Erik Van Sebille is an oceanographer, and is building an ocean model that predicts where our missing plastic ends up. The completed model will be finished in 2022, but in the meantime he and his team publish initial results to a Twitter feed."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsjvwQclGLo&t=361s)

### Example 3
> "Dr. Erik van Sebille."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mzDQVyNiVg&t=313s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [sebic](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sebic), [sebid](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sebid), [seal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/seal), [seb](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/seb), [sebc](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sebc), [sebe](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sebe), [sebilla](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sebilla), [sebs](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sebs)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "sebil" correctly?
"sebil" is pronounced `/sɛbɪl/`. Syllable breakdown: **se·bil**.

### What does "sebil" mean in context?
A fountain, a small structure in a Muslim area where water is freely dispensed to members of the public.

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