هیکل

See also: هيكل and هیكل

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَيْكَل (haykal, “armature, temple”), from Proto-West Semitic, from Akkadian 𒂍𒃲 (ēkallum), from Sumerian 𒂍𒃲 (e₂-gal).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [haj.ˈkal]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häj.kʰǽl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häj.kʰǽl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäj.kʰǽl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäj.kʰǽl̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hej.kʰʲǽl̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [häj.kʰǽl]

Readings
Classical reading?	haykal
Dari reading?	haykal
Iranian reading?	heykal
Tajik reading?	haykal

Noun

Dari	هیکل
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳайкал

هیکل • (heykal) (plural هیکل‌ها (heykal-hâ) or هیاکل (hayâkel))

1. (rare) temple (house of worship)

   Synonyms: معبد (ma'bad), پرستشگاه (parastešgâh)

   هیکل سلیمان ― heykal-e soleymân ― Solomon's Temple

2. (now rare) statue

   Synonyms: پیکره (peykare), مجسمه (mojassame)

3. body, especially human body

   Synonyms: بدن (badan), تن (tan), پیکر (peykar), جسم (jesm), جسد (jasad), جثه (josse)

4. physique

Derived terms

• بدهیکل (bad-heykal)
• خوش‌هیکل (xoš-heykal)
• هیکلی (heykali)
• هیکل‌تراش (heykal-tarâš)
• هیکل‌تراشی (heykal-tarâši)
• هیکل‌ساز (heykal-sâz)
• هیکل‌سازی (heykal-sâzi)

 

Descendants

• Tajik: ҳайкал (haykal)
  • → Uzbek: haykal
• → Azerbaijani: heykəl
• → Bashkir: һәйкәл (həykəl)
• → English: heykel
• → Northern Kurdish: heykel
• → Tatar: һәйкәл (häykäl)
• → Ottoman Turkish: هیکل (heykel)
  • Turkish: heykel
• → Zazaki: heykel