دلیل

From Arabic دَلِيل (dalīl).

• IPA^(key): [dɛˈlil]
• (cavalryman also): IPA^(key): [dɛˈli]

دلیل • (delil) (plural ادله (edille))

1. indicium, argument, piece of evidence
2. guide, who shows the way, pilot
3. a kind of cavalryman in the ancient Ottoman army

• Turkish: delil

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “delil”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Borrowing from Arabic دَلِيل (dalīl).

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دلیل • (dalil)

1. reason, cause

   Synonyms: سبب (sabab), علت ('ellat)

   به دلیل ترس از من اطاعت می‌کند. (more literary)

   be dalil-e tars az man etâ'at mi-konad.

   He/she obeys me because of fear.

   به دلیل ترس ازم اطاعت می‌کنه. (more colloquial)

   be dalil-e tars az-am etâ'at mi-kone.

   He/she obeys me because of fear.

2. proof, evidence
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 2085:

     نفرت خفاشکان باشد دلیل، که منم خورشید تابان جلیل

     nafrat-i xuffāšakān bāšad dalīl, ki manam xwaršīd-i tābān-i jalīl

     The disgust of the wretched bats is a proof that I am the shining glorious sun.

3. argument
4. guide (one who shows the way)

• → Azerbaijani: dəlil
• → Bengali: দলীল (dolil)
• → Bashkir: дәлил (dəlil)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: दलील (dalīl)

  Urdu: دلیل (dalīl)

• → Kazakh: дәлел (dälel)
• → Kyrgyz: далил (dalil)
• → Turkmen: delil
• → Uyghur: دەلىل (delil)
• → Uzbek: dalil