انجیل

See also: إنجيل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِنْجِيل (ʔinjīl), ultimately from Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion).

Proper noun

انجیل • (incil)

  1. (Christianity) gospel, evangel

Derived terms
  • انجیلجی (incilci, “evangelist”)
  • انجیلی (incili, “evangelical”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: İncil

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “İncil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2172
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انجیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 154
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Evangelium”, 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 483
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “انجیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 448
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انجیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 214

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِنْجِيل (ʔinjīl), itself from Classical Syriac ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ (ʾewwangellīōn) or a variant thereof. Doublet of انگلیون (angalyun, “Gospel”), borrowed directly from Syriac, which this Arabic word displaced.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔɪn.d͡ʒíːl]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔɪn.d͡ʒíːl]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔin.d͡ʒíl̥]

Readings
Classical reading? injīl
Dari reading? injīl
Iranian reading? enjil
Tajik reading? injil

Proper noun

انجیل • (enjil)

  1. the Gospel, the evangel
  2. (Christianity) the Bible, the New Testament

Derived terms
  • انجیلی (enjili)

Urdu

Noun

انجیل • (injīl) f (formal plural اناجیل, Hindi spelling इंजील)

  1. gospel
  • انجیلی (injīli)
  • انجیلیت (injīliyat)
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