فیل
See also: فيل and قيل
Central Kurdish
Noun
فیل (fîl)
- elephant (mammal)
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic فِيل (fīl).
Noun
فیل • (fil)
- elephant
Synonyms
- پیل (pil)
Descendants
- Turkish: fil
- → Serbo-Croatian: fȉl / фи̏л
Persian
Alternative forms
- پیل (pil)
Etymology
From Arabic فِيل (fīl), itself from Middle Persian pyl (/pīl/), ultimately from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛 (/pīru/).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /fiːl/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /fiːl/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /fiːl/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /fil/
Audio (file)
Noun
Dari | فیل |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | фил (fil) |
فیل • (fil) (plural فیلها (fil-hâ) or فیلان (filân))
- elephant
- bishop (chess)
Related terms
- چس فیل (čos-e 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 Persian فیل (fil), from Arabic فِيل (fīl).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /fiːl/
Noun
فیل • (fīl) m (Hindi spelling फ़ील)
- elephant
Synonyms
- ہاتھی (hāthī)
- ہستی (hastī)
- گج (gaj)
- پیل (pīl)