بیل

See also: پیل, پيل, and تىل

Khalaj

Noun

بیل (bil) (definite accusative بیلی, plural بیللَر)

1. Arabic spelling of bil (“shovel”)

Declension

Declension of بیل

	singular	plural
nominative	بیل	بیللَر
genitive	بیلۆݧ	بیللَریݧ
dative	بیلکه	بیللَرکه
definite accusative	بیلۆ	بیللَری
locative	بیلچه	بیللَرچه
ablative	بیلده	بیللَرده
instrumental	بیلله	بیللَرله
equative	بیلوارا	بیللَروارا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بل (bel)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بیل (bil, “shovel, spade”).

Noun

بیل • (bil)

1. spade, a garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging

   Synonyms: كورك (kürek), مجرفه (micrefe)

Derived terms

• بیلك (bilek, “forkhead”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bil, bel

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bil3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 602
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “bîl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 129
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 303
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pala”, 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 1233
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1004
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 424

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (byl /⁠bēl⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *bádHr̥, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰádʰHr̥, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰódʰh₂-r̥. Compare Latin fodiō (“to dig”), Serbo-Croatian bȏd (“sting”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [beːl]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [beːl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [beːl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [beːl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [beːl̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [biːl̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bel]

Readings
Classical reading?	bēl
Dari reading?	bēl
Iranian reading?	bil
Tajik reading?	bel

• (Sistani) IPA^(key): /beːl/

Noun

Dari	بیل
Iranian Persian
Tajik	бел

بیل • (bil) (plural بیل‌ها (bil-hâ))

1. shovel, spade
2. (Sistani) 12 hours

Derived terms

• بیل زدن (bil zadan)
• بیلچه (bilče)

 

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: bel
• → Ingush: бел (bel)
• → Karakalpak: бел
• → Kazakh: бел (bel) (Karakalpakstan, Turkmenistan)
• → Khalaj: bil
• → Ottoman Turkish: بل (bel)
  • Turkish: bel
  • → Armenian: պել (pel)
• → Turkmen: pil, bel
• → Uyghur: بەل (bel)
• → Uzbek: bel, belkurak
• → Urdu: بیل (bēl, bīl)