زیلو

From Persian زیلو (zilu, zêlu, zaylu).

زیلو • (zilu)

1. a type of Persian carpet with a checkerboard pattern

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زیلو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1023

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زیلو • (zilu, zêlu, zaylu)

1. a type of blanket or carpet

• → Arabic: زُولِيَّة (zūliyya), زُلِيَّة (zuliyya), زِلِّيَّة (zilliyya), زُلِيّ (zuliyy), زِلِيّ (ziliyy) — obsolete, uncommon
• → Azerbaijani: zili (Ağdam, Borçalı, Qazax)
  • → Lezgi: зили (zili)
• → Ottoman Turkish: زیلو (zilu)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “زیلو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “زیلو”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 172a