alfin

• alphin

From Middle English awfyn, alphyn, aufyn, etc., from Middle French alfin, from Old Spanish alfil, arfil, from Arabic الفِيل (al-fīl, “the elephant”).

alfin (plural alfins)

1. (chess, historical) bishop

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “alfin”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Falin, final, flain