فیل

See also: فيل and قيل

Central Kurdish
فیل

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fiːl/

Noun
Northern Kurdish fîl

فیل (fîl)

  1. elephant (mammal)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فِيل (fīl). Doublet of پیل (pil).

Noun

فیل • (fil)

  1. elephant
    Synonym: پیل (pil)

Descendants
  • Turkish: fil
  • → Albanian: fil
  • → Laz: ჶილი (fili)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: fȉl／фи̏л

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فِيل (fīl), itself from Middle Persian 𐭯𐭩𐭫 (pyl /⁠pīl⁠/), ultimately from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛 (/⁠pīru⁠/). Doublet of پیل (pil).

Pronunciation
 

Readings
Classical reading? fīl
Dari reading? fīl
Iranian reading? fil
Tajik reading? fil
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Noun
Dari فیل
Iranian Persian
Tajik фил

فیل • (fil) (plural فیل‌ها (fil-hâ) or فیلان (filân))

  1. elephant
    Synonym: پیل (pil)
  2. bishop (chess)

Descendants
  • → Bashkir: 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)
♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟
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

Noun

فِیل • (fīl) m (Hindi spelling फ़ील)

  1. 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
  2. (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

References
  • “فیل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], 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
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