See also: بل and پل

Arabic edit

Root
ت ل ل (t-l-l)

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Semitic *tall- (hill).

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

تَلّ (tallm (plural أَتْلَال (ʔatlāl) or أَتُلّ (ʔatull) or تِلَال (tilāl) or تُلُول (tulūl))

  1. verbal noun of تَلَّ (talla) (form I)
  2. heap of sand, hillock, mound, knob
  3. hill, elevation
  4. (rare) pillow
Declension edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

تَلَّ (talla) I, non-past يَتُلُّ‎ (yatullu)

  1. to throw (someone) down on their neck, cheek or forehead
  2. to throw into difficulties
  3. to throw or push (something) into one's hand
Conjugation edit

Verb edit

تَلَّ (talla) I, non-past يَتُلُّ or يَتِلُّ‎ (yatullu or yatillu)

  1. to humble oneself, to fawn
  2. to fall down
  3. to pour out
  4. to drop with perspiration
  5. to let down
  6. to take by the hand
  7. to lead a beast of burden
Conjugation edit

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

تَلِ (tali) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of وَلِيَ (waliya)
  2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of وَلِيَ (waliya)

References edit

  • تل” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1830–1837) “تل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[3] (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 195–196
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “تل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 310–311
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “تل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 184
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “تل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 142

Burushaski edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

تل (transliteration needed) (plural تلجݸ)

  1. pigeon

References edit

Sadaf Munshi (2015) “Word Lists”, in Burushaski Language Documentation Project[7].

Libyan Arabic edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

تل (tallm

  1. A metal wire or a thin metalic bar.

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Armenian թել (tʿel, thread),[1][2][3][4][5] or derived from Proto-Turkic *tēl (wire, string).[6]

Noun edit

تل (tel, tīl)

  1. fiber
  2. hair
  3. thread
  4. wire
  5. rope yarn
  6. feather
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Turkish: tel
  • Albanian: tel
  • Arabic:
    Egypt: تيل (tīl, fibre such as of flax or hemp or cotton; wire)
    Syria, Iraq: تيل (tīl, wire, metallic thread, telegraph or power line)
    Tunisia, Algeria: تَلّ (tall, wire)
    Yemen: تر (tar, wire, metallic thread, telegraph)
  • Bulgarian: тел (tel)
  • Georgian: თელი (teli, metal wire)
  • Greek: τέλι (téli)
  • Hebrew: תַּיִל (tayil, wire, esp. barbed wire)
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: têl
    Central Kurdish: تەل (tel), تێل (têl)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тел
    Latin script: tel

References edit

  1. ^ Kraelitz, Friedrich (1913) “Türkische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes[1] (in German), volume 27, pages 131–132
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973) “թել”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 169–170
  3. ^ Gayayan, Harutʿyun (1977) “Gorgagorcutʿyan meǰ kiraṙvoġ hayeren pʿoxaṙyal baṙer tʿurkʿerenum [Armenian Borrowings in Turkish, Used in Carpet Making]”, in Lraber Hasarakakan Gitutyunneri [Herald of the Social Sciences]‎[2] (in Armenian), number 8, pages 86–87
  4. ^ Bläsing, Uwe (1992) Armenisches Lehngut im Türkeitürkischen am Beispiel von Hemşin (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 2) (in German), Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, pages 13–14
  5. ^ Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 47
  6. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tēl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading edit

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Arabic تَلّ (tall).

Noun edit

تل (tell)

  1. barrow
  2. hill
Synonyms edit

Pashto edit

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

تل (tál)

  1. always
  2. every time
  3. ever

Persian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic تَلّ (tall).

Noun edit

تل (tall)

  1. hill

Punjabi edit

Etymology edit

From Sanskrit तिल (tila).

Noun edit

تِل (tilm (Gurmukhi spelling ਤਿਲ)

  1. sesame
  2. (anatomy) mole

South Levantine Arabic edit

Root
ت ل ل
1 term

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic تَلّ (tall).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /tall/, [tal]
  • (file)

Noun edit

تلّ (tallm (plural تلال (tlāl))

  1. hill, mound

Derived terms edit

See also edit

  • جبل (jabal, mountain)

Southwestern Fars edit

Noun edit

تل (tol)

  1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) hill

Adjective edit

تل (tāl, ta:l)

  1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) bitter

Urdu edit

Etymology edit

From Sanskrit तिल (tila).

Noun edit

تل (tilm (Hindi spelling तिल)

  1. sesame
  2. (anatomy) mole

Synonyms edit