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

Gawar-Bati

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit पेशी (peśī).

Noun

پیل (pel)

1. gristle, sinew

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

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• 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 [Ottoman–Turkish Encyclopedic Dictionary]‎^[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

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیل (pīl).

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]

• Rhymes: -iːl

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”)

See also

Chess pieces in Urdu · مہرے کے شطرنج (śatranj ke muhre) (layout · text)
بَادْشَاہ (bādśāh), شاہ (śāh)	وَزِیر (vazīr), رانی (rānī), مَلِکَہ (malika), فَرْزِین (farzīn)	رُخ (rux), قِلْعَہ (qil'a)	فِیلَہ (fīla), فِیل (fīl), پِیل (pīl)	گھوڑا (ghoṛā), اَسْپ (asp)	پِیَادَہ (piyāda), بَیدَق (baidaq)

References

• “پیل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• 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