بیل

Khalaj

Noun

بیل (bil) (definite accusative بیلی, plural بیللَر)

1. Arabic spelling of bil (“shovel”)

Declension

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بل (bel)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بیل (bil, “shovel, spade”).

Noun

بیل • (bil)

1. spade, a garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging

   Synonyms: كورك (kürek), مجرفه (micrefe)

Derived terms

• بیلك (bilek, “forkhead”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bil, bel

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bil3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 602
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “bîl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 129
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 303
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pala”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1233
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1004
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 424

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian (byl /⁠bēl⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *bádHr̥, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰádʰHr̥, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰódʰh₂-r̥. Compare Latin fodiō (“to dig”), Serbo-Croatian bȏd (“sting”).

Pronunciation

• (Sistani) IPA^(key): /beːl/

Noun

بیل • (bil) (plural بیل‌ها (bil-hâ))

1. shovel, spade
2. (Sistani) 12 hours

Derived terms

Descendants