فيل

Meaning

1. elephant
2. bishop (use the dual to pluralize)

Concepts

elephant

🐘

bishop

elephants

oliphaunt

villas

be erroneous

Translations

éléphant

🐘

fil

🐘

Elefant

🐘

elefante

🐘

elefante

🐘

elephantus

🐘

elefante

🐘

olifant

🐘

elefant

🐘

ελέφαντας

elefant

elephas

🐘

fîl

🐘

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fiːl/

Etymology

From Middle Persian pyl (/⁠pīl⁠/), from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛 (/⁠pīru⁠/), related to Egyptian ꜣbw Ab-b-w-E26 (root of English elephant).
Cognate with Aramaic פִּילָא (pīlā) and Hebrew פיל (píl). Compare also Old Armenian փիղ (pʻił), Persian پیل (pil), Sanskrit पीलु (pīlu).