هیکل

See also: هيكل and هیكل

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَيْكَل (haykal).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? haykal
Dari reading? haykal
Iranian reading? heykal
Tajik reading? haykal

Noun

Dari هیکل
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҳайкал

هیکل • (heykal) (plural هیکل‌ها, or هیاکل (hayâkel))

  1. (rare) temple (house of worship)
    Synonyms: معبد (ma'bad), پرستشگاه (parastešgâh)
    هیکل سلیمان ― heykal-e soleymân ― Solomon's Temple
  2. (now rare) statue
    Synonyms: پیکره (peykare), مجسمه (mojassame)
  3. body, especially human body
    Synonyms: بدن (badan), تن (tan), پیکر (peykar), جسم (jesm), جسد (jasad), جثه (josse)
  4. physique

Derived terms

  • بدهیکل (bad-heykal)
  • خوش‌هیکل (xoš-heykal)
  • هیکلی (heykali)
  • هیکل‌تراش (heykal-tarâš)
  • هیکل‌تراشی (heykal-tarâši)
  • هیکل‌ساز (heykal-sâz)
  • هیکل‌سازی (heykal-sâzi)

Descendants

  • Tajik: ҳайкал (haykal)
  • → Azerbaijani: heykəl
  • → Bashkir: һәйкәл (həykəl)
  • → English: heykel
  • → Northern Kurdish: heykel
  • → Tatar: һәйкәл (häykäl)
  • → Chagatai:
  • → Zazaki: heykel
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