هیکل

See also: هيكل and هیكل

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَيْكَل (haykal, “armature, temple”), from Proto-West Semitic, from Akkadian 𒂍𒃲 (ēkallum), from Sumerian 𒂍𒃲 (e₂-gal).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [häj.kʰǽl]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔäj.kʰǽl]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔäj.kʰǽl̥]

Readings
Classical reading? haykal
Dari reading? haykal
Iranian reading? heykal
Tajik reading? haykal

Noun
Dari هیکل
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҳайкал

هیکل • (heykal) (plural هیکل‌ها (heykal-hâ) or هیاکل (hayâkel))

  1. (rare) temple (house of worship)
    Synonyms: معبد (ma'bad), پرستشگاه (parastešgâh)
    هیکل سلیمان ― heykal-e soleymân ― Solomon's Temple
  2. (now rare) statue
    Synonyms: پیکره (peykare), مجسمه (mojassame)
  3. body, especially human body
    Synonyms: بدن (badan), تن (tan), پیکر (peykar), جسم (jesm), جسد (jasad), جثه (josse)
  4. physique

Derived terms
  • بدهیکل (bad-heykal)
  • خوش‌هیکل (xoš-heykal)
  • هیکلی (heykali)
  • هیکل‌تراش (heykal-tarâš)
  • هیکل‌تراشی (heykal-tarâši)
  • هیکل‌ساز (heykal-sâz)
  • هیکل‌سازی (heykal-sâzi)

Descendants
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.