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

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian پیل (pil).

Noun

پیل • (pil)

1. elephant

   Synonym: فیل (fil)

Descendants

• Turkish: pil

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): [piːl]

 

• (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)

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

Derived terms

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