ایل

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ēl (realm); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰃𐰠 (é̄l), Azerbaijani el, Bashkir ил (il), Chuvash ял (jal), Kazakh ел (el), Kyrgyz эл (el), Tatar ил (il), Turkmen īl, Uyghur ئەل (el) and Uzbek el.

Noun

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ایل (il)

  1. (originally) any other person that one's self, others, other people
  2. any person or persons other than one's own household, tribe, or nation, strangers
  3. tribe, people, or nation; especially a subdivision of a large tribe called ulus
  4. the country of any particular tribe, or ruled over by any particular man or dynasty
    Synonyms: اولكا (ülke), دولت (devlet)

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Gagauz: iel
  • Turkish: il, el

Further reading

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Persian

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Etymology 1

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From a Turkic language, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ēl.

Noun

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ایل (il) (plural ایلات (ilât) or ایل‌ها (il-hâ))

  1. clan
  2. tribe
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From either Azerbaijani il (year) or Ottoman Turkish ییل (yıl, year).

Noun

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ایل (il)

  1. year (used only in Turkic year names)

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Arabic أُيَّل (ʔuyyal).

Noun

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ایل (oyyal)

  1. (Classical Persian) deer, stag