پيل

Borrowed from French pelle.

پيل • (pēl) m (plural پيلات (pēlāt))

1. shovel (hand tool)

• Heath, Judith, Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021) Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français‎^[1] (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, page 124
• Pommerol, Patrice Jullien de (1999) Dictionnaire Arabe Tchadien-Français (in French), Éditions Karthala, →ISBN, page 1024

Possibly from Old Hindi पहिल (pahila) (cf. Modern Hindi पहल (pahal, “start, beginning”)).

• IPA^(key): /paɪl/

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پيل • (pail) m

1. start
2. commencement
3. beginning

From Persian فیل (fil), itself an Arabic borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /pil/

پيل • (píl) m

1. elephant