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 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
  • Audio (Iran)(file)

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 (piil)
  • → 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).

Pronunciation

Noun

فیل • (fīl) m (Hindi spelling फ़ील)

  1. elephant
    Synonyms: پیل‎ (pīl), ہاتھی‎ (hāthī), ہستی‎ (hastī), گج‎ (gaj)
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