alfil
Spanish
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
- folâtre French
- fou French
- garde-fou French
- vendredi fou French
- alfyn Middle English
- fíll Old Norse
- fílsbein Old Norse
- الفيل, فيل Arabic
- فِيل Arabic
- فِيل, الفِيل Arabic
- alfin Old French
- alfil Galician
- nebun Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- فیل Persian
- پیل Persian
- піл Kazakh
- fol Middle French
- fil Azerbaijani
- فیل Ottoman Turkish
- پیل Ottoman Turkish
- ꜣb(w), pꜣ-ꜣbw Egyptian
- ꜣbw Egyptian
- fil Maltese
- pyl Middle Persian
- fou Mauritian Creole
- ֆիլ Middle Armenian
- 𒄠𒋛 Akkadian
- پیل Pashto, Pushto
- пил Ossetian, Ossetic
- пыл Ossetian, Ossetic