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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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FYL فيل 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√FYL 
“root” 
▪ FYL_1 ‘…’ ↗…
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♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘weakness of the body, lack of wisdom; to rebuke; to give bad counsel’. – Philologists derive the word fīl, elephant, from this root, although it has been suggested that it is a borrowing from either Pers or Aram that came into Arabic in pre-Islamic times. 
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fīl فيل 
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… – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ Kogan2011: In most Semitic languages, ‘elephant’ is denoted by reflexes of *pīl‑ or *pīr‑. These forms are usually considered interborrowings going back to a non-Semitic source.
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qāf قاف 
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R₁ 
The letter q of the Arabic alphabet. 
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