فیل
Persian
noun
Definitions
- elephant
- bishop chess
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فِيل (elephant) derived from Middle Persian pyl (elephant) derived from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛.
Origin
Akkadian
𒄠𒋛
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- alfil Spanish, Castilian
- fíll Old Norse
- fílsbein Old Norse
- فيل Arabic
- فِيل Arabic
- alfil Galician
- فیلمرغ Persian
- مرغ Persian
- پیل Persian
- چس Persian
- چس فیل Persian
- փիղ Old Armenian
- піл Kazakh
- fil Azerbaijani
- فیل Ottoman Turkish
- ꜣb(w), pꜣ-ꜣbw Egyptian
- ꜣbw Egyptian
- fil Maltese
- فیل Urdu
- pyl Middle Persian
- fîl Northern Kurdish
- ֆիլ Middle Armenian
- 𒄠𒋛 Akkadian