تيل
Chagatai
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *til, *tïl (“tongue; language”). Cognate with Tatar and Bashkir тел (tel), Dolgan тыл, Kazakh тіл (tıl), Kyrgyz тил (til), and Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Turkmen dil.
Noun
تيل (til) (plural تيللار)
- (anatomy) tongue
- (linguistics) language
- Synonym: زبان (zaban)
Descendants
Further reading
- Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “تيل”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary][1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 264
- Jarring, Gunnar (1964) “تيل”, in An Eastern Turki-English Dialect Dictionary[2], C.W.K. Gleerup, page 308
Egyptian Arabic
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish تل (tel, til).
Pronunciation
Noun
تيل • (tīl) m (collective, singulative تيلة f (tīla))
Iraqi Arabic
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish تل (tel, til).
Pronunciation
Noun
تيل (tīl) m (plural تيول (tyūl))
Sindhi
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀢𑁂𑀮 (tela), from Sanskrit तैल (taila). Cognate with Gujarati તેલ (tel), Hindustani تیل / तेल (tel), and Punjabi تیل / ਤੇਲ (tel).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t̪eːlʊ/
- Rhymes: -ʊ
Noun
تيلُ • (telu) m