دلیل
See also: دليل
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic دَلِيل (dalīl).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [dɛˈlil]
- (cavalryman also): IPA(key): [dɛˈli]
Noun
دلیل • (delil)
- indicium, argument, piece of evidence
- guide, who shows the way, pilot
- a kind of cavalryman in the ancient Ottoman army
Descendants
- Turkish: delil
Persian
Etymology
Borrowing from Arabic دَلِيل (dalīl).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian): IPA(key): /daliːl/
- (Dari): IPA(key): /daliːl/
- (Iranian Persian): IPA(key): /dæliːl/
- (Tajik): IPA(key): /dalil/
Noun
دَليل • (dalil)
- reason, cause
- به دلیل ترس از من اطاعت میکند. (more literary)
- be dalil-e tars az man etâ'at mi-konad.
- He/she obeys me because of fear.
- به دلیل عشق ازم اطاعت میکنه. (more colloquial)
- be dalil-e tars az-am etâ'at mi-kone.
- He/she obeys me because of fear.
- proof, evidence
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 2085:
- نفرت خفاشکان باشد دلیل، که منم خورشید تابان جلیل
- nafrat-e xoffâšakân bâšad dalil, ke manam xoršid-e tâbân-e jalil.
- The disgust of the wretched bats is a proof that I am the shining glorious sun.
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- argument
- guide (one who shows the way)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: dəlil
- → Bengali: দলীল (dôlīl)
- → Bashkir: дәлил (dälil)
- → Hindustani: dalīl
- Hindi: दलील
- Urdu: دلیل
- → Kazakh: дәлел (dälel)
- → Kyrgyz: далил (dalil)
- → Uzbek: dalil