تيل

Chagatai

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *til, *tïl (“tongue; language”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dil, Bashkir тел (tel), Dolgan тыл, Kazakh тіл (tıl), Kyrgyz тил (til), Ottoman Turkish دل (dil) (whence Turkish dil), Tatar тел (tel), and Turkmen dil.

Noun

تيل (til)

1. (anatomy) tongue
2. (linguistics) language

   Synonym: زبان (zaban)

Descendants

• Uyghur: تىل (til)
• Uzbek:

  Latin script: til

  Cyrillic script: тил

Further reading

• Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “تيل”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 264
• Jarring, Gunnar (1964) “تيل”, in An Eastern Turki-English Dialect Dictionary‎^[2], C.W.K. Gleerup, page 308

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تل (tel, til).

Noun

تيل • (tīl) m (collective, singulative تيلة f (tīla))

1. fibre such as of flax or hemp or cotton, wire

Iraqi Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تل (tel, til).

Noun

تيل (tīl) m (plural تيول (tyūl))

1. wire, metallic thread
2. telegraph or power line etc.
3. wire screen, window screen

Sindhi

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀢𑁂𑀮 (tela), from Sanskrit तैल (taila). Cognate with Gujarati તેલ (tel), Hindustani تیل / तेल (tel), and Punjabi تیل / ਤੇਲ (tel).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪eːlʊ/
• Rhymes: -ʊ

Noun

تيلُ • (telu) m

1. oil