پیل

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See also: بیل, پيل, and تىل

Bakhtiari

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Etymology

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From Persian پول (pul).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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پیل (pīl)

  1. money

Eshtehardi

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Adjective

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پیل (transliteration needed)

  1. big

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Persian پیل (pil).

Noun

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پیل (pil)

  1. elephant
    Synonym: فیل (fil)

Descendants

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  • Turkish: pil

Pashto

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Etymology

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From Persian پیل (pil).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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پیل (pilm

  1. elephant

Declension

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Persian

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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پیل (pil)

  1. elephant
    Synonym: فیل (fil)
Descendants
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French pile.

Noun

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پیل (pil)

  1. battery

Etymology 3

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Proper noun

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پیل (pil)

  1. A transliteration of the English surname Peel

Urdu

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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پِیل (pīlm (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

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References

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  • 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