انجیل

See also: إنجيل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِنْجِيل (ʔinjīl), ultimately from Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion).

Proper noun

انجیل • (incil)

1. (Christianity) gospel, evangel

Derived terms

• انجیلجی (incilci, “evangelist”)
• انجیلی (incili, “evangelical”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: İncil

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “İncil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2172
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انجیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 154
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Evangelium”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 483
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “انجیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 448
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انجیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 214

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِنْجِيل (ʔinjīl), itself from Classical Syriac ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ (ʾewwangellīōn) or a variant thereof. Doublet of انگلیون (angalyun, “Gospel”), borrowed directly from Syriac, which this Arabic word displaced.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔin.ˈd͡ʒiːl]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪn.d͡ʒíːl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪn.d͡ʒíːl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪn.d͡ʒíːl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔin.d͡ʒíl̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔen.d͡ʒíːl̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔin.d͡ʒíl]

Readings
Classical reading?	injīl
Dari reading?	injīl
Iranian reading?	enjil
Tajik reading?	injil

Proper noun

انجیل • (enjil)

1. the Gospel, the evangel
2. (Christianity) the Bible, the New Testament

Derived terms

• انجیلی (enjili)

Urdu

Noun

انجیل • (injīl) f (formal plural اناجیل, Hindi spelling इंजील)

1. gospel

Related terms

• انجیلی (injīli)
• انجیلیت (injīliyat)