alfil
Galician
noun
Definitions
- (chess) bishop
Etymology
Derived from Arabic فِيل (elephant) derived from Persian پیل.
Origin
Persian
پیل
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- alfil Spanish, Castilian
- fíll Old Norse
- fílsbein Old Norse
- فِيل Arabic
- فیل Persian
- پیل Persian
- піл Kazakh
- fil Azerbaijani
- فیل Ottoman Turkish
- پیل Ottoman Turkish
- ꜣb(w), pꜣ-ꜣbw Egyptian
- ꜣbw Egyptian
- fil Maltese
- pyl Middle Persian
- ֆիլ Middle Armenian
- 𒄠𒋛 Akkadian
- پیل Pashto, Pushto
- пил Ossetian, Ossetic
- пыл Ossetian, Ossetic