پیل

See also: بیل, پيل, and تىل

Bakhtiari

Etymology

From Persian پول (pul).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /piːl/

Noun

پیل (pīl)

  1. money

Eshtehardi

Adjective

پیل (transliteration needed)

  1. big

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian پیل (pil).

Noun

پیل • (pil)

  1. elephant
    Synonym: فیل (fil)

Descendants
  • Turkish: pil

Pashto

Etymology

From Persian پیل (pil).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pil/

Noun

پیل • (pil) m

  1. elephant

Declension
declension of پیل
singular plural
direct پیل
(pil)		 پیلان
(pilân)
oblique پیل
(pil)		 پیلانو
(pilâno)
vocative پیله
(pila)		 پیلانو
(pilâno)

Persian

Pronunciation
 

Readings
Classical reading? pīl
Dari reading? pīl
Iranian reading? pil
Tajik reading? pil

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian 𐭯𐭩𐭫 (pyl /⁠pīl⁠/), from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛 (pīru).

Noun

پیل • (pil)

  1. elephant
Synonyms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French pile.

Noun

پیل • (pil)

  1. battery

Proper noun

پیل • (pil)

  1. A transliteration of the English surname Peel

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیل (pīl). Cognate with Pashto پيل (pil).

Pronunciation

Noun

پِیل • (pīl) m (Hindi spelling पील)

  1. elephant
    Synonyms: فِیل (fīl), ہاتھی (hāthī), ہَسْتی (hastī), گَج (gaj)
  2. (chess) alfil or bishop
    Synonyms: فِیل (fīl), فِیلَہ (fīla)

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • پِیلبان (pīlbān)
  • پِیل بَنْد (pīl band)
  • پِیلخانَہ (pīlxāna)
  • پِیلمُرْغ (pīlmurġ)
  • پِیلپا (pīlpā, “elephant-footed; affected with elephantiasis”)
  • پِیلپایَہ (pīlpāya, “pillar, column”)

References
  • “پیل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “پيل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “پيل”, 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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