فیل
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فیل
Central Kurdish
Pronunciation
Noun
| Northern Kurdish | fîl |
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فیل (fîl)
- elephant (mammal)
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- ֆիլ (fil) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فِيل (fīl). Doublet of پیل (pil).
Noun
فیل • (fil)
Descendants
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فِيل (fīl), itself from Middle Persian 𐭯𐭩𐭫 (pyl /pīl/), ultimately from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛 (/pīru/). Doublet of پیل (pil).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
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| Classical reading? | fīl |
| Dari reading? | fīl |
| Iranian reading? | fil |
| Tajik reading? | fil |
Noun
| Dari | فیل |
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| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | фил |
فیل • (fil) (plural فیلها (fil-hâ) or فیلان (filân))
Related terms
Descendants
- → Bashkir: фил (fil)
- → Yagnobi: фил (fil)
- → Chechen: пийл (piı̇l)
- → Georgian: ჶილი (fili) — Fereydan
- → Hindi: फ़ील (fīl)
- → Kazakh: піл (pıl)
- → Kyrgyz: пил (pil)
- → Northern Kurdish: fîl
- → Pashto: پيل (pil)
- → Tajik: фил (fil)
- → Tatar: фил (fil)
- → Turkmen: pil
- → Urdu: فیل (fīl)
- → Uyghur: پىل (pil)
- → Uzbek: fil
See also
| Chess pieces in Persian · مهرههای شطرنج (mohre-hâye šatranj) (layout · text) | |||||
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| شاه (šâh) | وزیر (vazir) | رخ (rox), قلعه (qal'e) |
فیل (fil) | اسب (asb) | پیاده (piyâde), سرباز (sarbâz) |
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian فیل (fīl), from Arabic فِيل (fīl), from Middle Persian 𐭯𐭩𐭫 (pyl /pīl/). Doublet of پِیل (pīl).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /fiːl/
- Rhymes: -iːl
Noun
فِیل • (fīl) m (Hindi spelling फ़ील)
- elephant
- Synonyms: پِیل (pīl), ہاتھی (hāthī), ہَسْتی (hastī), گَج (gaj)
- اِس تَرازُو میں بَرابَر ہَیں وہ نیتا ہُوں کِہ فِیل۔ کھاتے ہَیں جَنتا کا حِصَّہ بھی یہ جَنتا کے وَکِیل۔
- is tarāzū mẽ barābar ha͠i vo netā hū̃ ki fīl. khāte ha͠i jantā kā hissa bhī ye jantā ke vakīl.
- The politician and the elephant are equal by this measure / This representative of the people devours even the public treasure
- (chess) alfil or bishop
- Synonyms: فِیلَہ (fīla), پِیل (pīl)
- سَجے ہُوئے ہَیں پیادَہ و اَسْپ و فِیل تَمام۔ بِچھی ہُوئی ہَے بِساط جَہاں کَہاں گَیا مَیں۔
- saje hūe ha͠i pyāda o asp o fīl tamām. bichī hūī hai bisāt jahā̃ kahā̃ gayā ma͠i.
- All the pawn and knight and bishop (or alfil) are set / Where the chess cloth is spread / Where have I gone?
Derived terms
Derived terms
- فِیلی (fīlī, “elephantine”)
- فِیل بان (fīl bān, “mahout”)
- فِیل پا (fīl pā, “elephantiasis”)
- فِیل دَنْدان (fīl dandān, “elephant tusk; ivory”)
- فِیل خانَہ (fīl xāna, “elephant stable”)
- فِیل مُرْغ (fīl murġ, “turkey”)
References
- “فیل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “فيل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “فيل”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC