چیل

See also: جيل, خيل, حيل, and جیل

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• چل (çil)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čïl (“spot, freckle, fleck”).

Adjective

چیل • (çil)

1. bright, shiny, brilliant, emitting much light

   Synonym: پارلاق (parlak)

2. freckled, speckled, marked with spots or dots

   Synonyms: آلا (ala), چوپورلو (çopurlu)

Derived terms

• چیل آقچه (çil akça, “new and shining money”)
• چیل طاوق (çil tavuk, “speckled hen”)
• چیل قوشی (çil kuşu, “grey partridge”)
• چیل ككلیك (çil keklik, “quail”)
• چیللك (çillik, “quality of being speckled or freckled”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çil
• → Armenian: չիլ (čʻil)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çil1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 993
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چیل”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 193b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 488
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Perdix”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1271
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1699
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 747

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀘𑀺𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀸 (cillā), from Sanskrit चिल्ला (cillā).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

چیل • (cīl) f (Hindi spelling चील)

1. kite (bird)
2. eagle

Synonyms

• (eagle): عقاب ('uqāb), گرڈ (garuḍ)