Noun
فیل • (fil)
- elephant
- Synonym: پیل (pil)
Descendants
- Turkish: fil
- → Albanian: fil
- → Laz: ჶილი (fili)
- → Serbo-Croatian: fȉl/фи̏л
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فیل • (fil) (plural فیلها (fil-hâ) or فیلان (filân))
- elephant
- Synonyms: پیل (pil), کنجر (kenjar)
- bishop (chess)
Descendants
- → Bashkir: фил (fil)
- → Chechen: пийл (piı̇l)
- → Georgian: ჶილი (fili) — Fereydan
- → Hindi: फ़ील (fīl)
- → Kazakh: піл (pıl)
- → Kyrgyz: пил (pil)
- → Northern Kurdish: fîl
- → Pashto: پيل (pil)
- → Tajik: фил (fil)
- → Tatar: фил (fil)
- → Turkmen: pil
- → Urdu: فیل (fīl)
- → Uyghur: پىل (pil)
- → Uzbek: fil
Noun
فِیل • (fīl) m (Hindi spelling फ़ील)
- elephant
- Synonyms: پِیل (pīl), ہاتھی (hāthī), ہَسْتی (hastī), گَج (gaj)
اِس تَرازُو میں بَرابَر ہَیں وہ نیتا ہُوں کِہ فِیل۔ کھاتے ہَیں جَنتا کا حِصَّہ بھی یہ جَنتا کے وَکِیل۔- is tarāzū mẽ barābar ha͠i vo netā hū̃ ki fīl. khāte ha͠i jantā kā hissa bhī ye jantā ke vakīl.
- The politician and the elephant are equal by this measure / This representative of the people devours even the public treasure
- (chess) alfil or bishop
- Synonyms: فِیلَہ (fīla), پِیل (pīl)
سَجے ہُوئے ہَیں پیادَہ و اَسْپ و فِیل تَمام۔ بِچھی ہُوئی ہَے بِساط جَہاں کَہاں گَیا مَیں۔- saje hūe ha͠i pyāda o asp o fīl tamām. bichī hūī hai bisāt jahā̃ kahā̃ gayā ma͠i.
- All the pawn and knight and bishop (or alfil) are set / Where the chess cloth is spread / Where have I gone?
References
- “فیل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “فيل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “فيل”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC