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, great

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پیل (pil, “elephant”), from Middle Persian pyl (/⁠pīl⁠/), ultimately from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛 (/⁠pīru⁠/). Doublet of فیل (fil, “elephant”).

Noun

پیل • (pil) (definite accusative پیلی (pili), plural پیللر (piller))

1. elephant, a mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw

   Synonym: فیل (fil)

2. (chess) bishop, the chess piece which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant")

   Synonyms: سطرنج فیلی (satranc fili), فیل (fil)

Derived terms

• پیل آبكش (pil abkeş, “raincloud”, literally “elephant that dregs water”)
• پیل بالا (pil bala, “gigantic, enormous”)
• پیل هوایی (pil-i havayî, “raincloud”)
• پیلبان (pilbân, “mahout, elephant keeper”)
• پیلبند (pilbend, “bishop's check”)
• پیلتن (pilten, “huge, gigantic”)
• پیلزهره (pilzehre, “bold as an elephant”)
• پیلزور (pilzur, “strong as an elephant”)
• پیلسم (pilsem, “massive and strong”)
• پیلكوش (pilguş, “Florentine iris”)
• پیلمال (pilmal, “rout, destruction”)
• پیلمرغ (pilmurg, “turkey”)
• پیلوار (pilvâr, “like an elephant”)
• پیلپا (pilpa, “elephantiasis on the leg”)

Descendants

• Turkish: pil

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pil2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3854
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “pil”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1037
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 332
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Elephantus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 457
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1004
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 467

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

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈpiːl/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiːl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiːl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰiːl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰil̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiːl̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰil]

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

   Synonym: فیل (fil)

Descendants

• → Ossetian: пыл (pyl), пил (pil)
• → Pashto: پیل (pil)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پیل (pil)
  • Turkish: pil

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French pile.

Noun

پیل • (pil)

1. battery

Etymology 3

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

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /piːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

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

• پِیل بَنْد (pīl band)
• پِیلبان (pīlbān)
• 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, 2025.
• 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, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC