fil
Serbo-Croatian
/fîl/, /fîːl/
noun
Definitions
- (regional) elephant
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فیل derived 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
- فیل Persian
- پیل Persian
- փիղ Old Armenian
- fil Turkish
- піл Kazakh
- fil Azerbaijani
- فیل Ottoman Turkish
- ꜣb(w), pꜣ-ꜣbw Egyptian
- ꜣbw Egyptian
- fil Maltese
- pyl Middle Persian
- ֆիլ Middle Armenian
- 𒄠𒋛 Akkadian
- пил Erzya