تل

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See also: بل and پل

Arabic

Root
ت ل ل (t l l)
2 terms

Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *tall- (hill).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

تَلّ (tallm (plural أَتْلَال (ʔatlāl) or أَتُلّ (ʔatull) or تِلَال (tilāl) or تُلُول (tulūl))

  1. verbal noun of تَلَّ (talla) (form I)
  2. heap of sand, hillock, mound, knob
  3. hill, elevation
  4. (rare) pillow
Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

تَلَّ (talla) I (non-past يَتُلُّ (yatullu), verbal noun تَلّ (tall))

  1. to throw (someone) down on their neck, cheek or forehead
  2. to throw into difficulties
  3. to throw or push (something) into one's hand
Conjugation

Verb

تَلَّ (talla) I (non-past يَتُلُّ (yatullu) or يَتِلُّ (yatillu), verbal noun تَلّ (tall))

  1. to humble oneself, to fawn
  2. to fall down
  3. to pour out
  4. to drop with perspiration
  5. to let down
  6. to take by the hand
  7. to lead a beast of burden
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Verb

تَلِ (tali) (form I) /ta.li/

  1. inflection of وَلِيَ (waliya):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive

References

  • تل” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1830–1837) “تل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 195–196
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “تل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 310–311
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “تل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 184
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “تل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 142

Burushaski

Pronunciation

Noun

تل (transliteration needed) (plural تلجݸ)

  1. pigeon

References

Sadaf Munshi (2015) “Word Lists”, in Burushaski Language Documentation Project.

Libyan Arabic

Pronunciation

Noun

تل (tallm

  1. A metal wire or a thin metalic bar.

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Armenian թել (tʻel, thread),[1][2][3][4][5] or derived from Proto-Turkic *tēl (wire, string).[6]

Noun

تل (tel, tīl)

  1. fiber
  2. hair
  3. thread
  4. wire
  5. rope yarn
  6. feather
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Turkish: tel
  • Albanian: tel
  • Arabic:
    Egypt: تيل (tīl, fibre such as of flax or hemp or cotton; wire)
    Syria, Iraq: تيل (tīl, wire, metallic thread, telegraph or power line)
    Tunisia, Algeria: تَلّ (tall, wire)
    Yemen: تر (tar, wire, metallic thread, telegraph)
  • Bulgarian: тел (tel)
  • Georgian: თელი (teli, metal wire)
  • Greek: τέλι (téli)
  • Hebrew: תַּיִל (tayil, wire, esp. barbed wire)
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: têl
    Central Kurdish: تەل (tel), تێل (têl)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тел
    Latin script: tel

References

  1. ^ Kraelitz, Friedrich (1913) “Türkische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 27, pages 131–132
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “թել”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 169–170
  3. ^ Gayayan, Harutʻyun (1977) “Gorgagorcutʻyan meǰ kiraṙvoġ hayeren pʻoxaṙyal baṙer tʻurkʻerenum [Armenian Borrowings in Turkish, Used in Carpet Making]”, in Lraber Hasarakakan Gitutyunneri [Herald of the Social Sciences]‎ (in Armenian), number 8, pages 86–87
  4. ^ Bläsing, Uwe (1992) Armenisches Lehngut im Türkeitürkischen am Beispiel von Hemşin (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 2) (in German), Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, pages 13–14
  5. ^ Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 47
  6. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tēl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic تَلّ (tall).

Noun

تل (tell)

  1. barrow
  2. hill
Synonyms

Pashto

Pronunciation

Adverb

تل (tál)

  1. always
  2. every time
  3. ever

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَلّ (tall).

Noun

تل (tall)

  1. hill

Punjabi

Etymology

From Sanskrit तिल (tila).

Noun

تِل (tilm (Gurmukhi spelling ਤਿਲ)

  1. sesame
  2. (anatomy) mole

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ت ل ل
1 term

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic تَلّ (tall).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tall/,
  • Audio (Ramallah):(file)

Noun

تلّ (tallm (plural تلال (tlāl))

  1. hill, mound

Derived terms

See also

  • جبل (jabal, mountain)

Southwestern Fars

Noun

تل (tol)

  1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) hill

Adjective

تل (tāl, ta:l)

  1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) bitter

Urdu

Etymology

From Sanskrit तिल (tila).

Noun

تل (tilm (Hindi spelling तिल)

  1. sesame
  2. (anatomy) mole

Synonyms