# تل
## Arabic

* Root
* ت ل ل (t l l)
* 2 terms

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *tall- (“hill”).

#### Alternative forms

* تَلَّة (talla)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tall/

#### Noun

تَلّ • (tall) m (plural أَتْلَال (ʔatlāl) or أَتُلّ (ʔatull) or تِلَال (tilāl) or تُلُول (tulūl))
* verbal noun of تَلَّ (talla) (form I)
* heap of sand, hillock, mound, knob
* hill, elevation
* (rare) pillow

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Verb

تَلَّ • (talla) I (non-past يَتُلُّ (yatullu), verbal noun تَلّ (tall))
* to throw (someone) down on their neck, cheek or forehead
* to throw into difficulties
* to throw or push (something) into one's hand

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

تَلَّ • (talla) I (non-past يَتُلُّ (yatullu) or يَتِلُّ (yatillu), verbal noun تَلّ (tall))
* to humble oneself, to fawn
* to fall down
* to pour out
* to drop with perspiration
* to let down
* to take by the hand
* to lead a beast of burden

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

تَلِ • (tali) (form I) /ta.li/
* inflection of وَلِيَ (waliya):
** second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
** third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive

### References

* “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 (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 195–196
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “تل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 310–311
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “تل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 184
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “تل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 142

## Burushaski
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [t̪al]

### Noun

تل (transliteration needed) (plural تلجݸ)
* pigeon

### References

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

## Libyan Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /talː/

### Noun

تل (tall) m
* A metal wire or a thin metalic bar.

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Armenian թել (tʻel, “thread”), or derived from Proto-Turkic *tēl (“wire, string”).

#### Noun

تل • (tel, tīl)
* fiber
* hair
* thread
* wire
* rope yarn
* feather

##### Derived terms

* تلسز (telsiz, “wireless”)
* فنارجی تلی (fenarcı teli, fenerci teli, “thin wire on which the waxed-cloth of lanterns is stretched”)

##### Descendants

* 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

* ↑ Kraelitz, Friedrich (1913) “Türkische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎ (in German), volume 27, pages 131–132
* ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (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
* ↑ Gayayan, Harutʻyun (1977) “Gorgagorcutʻyan meǰ kiraṙvoġ hayeren pʻoxaṙyal baṙer tʻurkʻerenum [Armenian Borrowings in Turkish, Used in Carpet Making]”, in Lraber Hasarakakan Gitutyunneri [Herald of the Social Sciences]‎ (in Armenian), number 8, pages 86–87
* ↑ 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
* ↑ Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 47
* ↑ 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

* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 575

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic تَلّ (tall). Doublet of تللو (tillo, “a town and district of Turkey”).

#### Noun

تل • (tell)
* barrow
* hill

##### Synonyms

* تپه (tepe)

## Pashto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tæl/

### Adverb

تل • (tál)
* always
* every time
* ever

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَلّ (tall).

### Noun

تل • (tall)
* hill

## Punjabi
### Etymology

From Sanskrit तिल (tila).

### Noun

تِل • (til) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਤਿਲ)
* sesame
* (anatomy) mole

## South Levantine Arabic

* Root
* ت ل ل
* 1 term

### Alternative forms

* تلة (talle)

### Etymology

From Arabic تَلّ (tall).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tall/, [tal]
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### Noun

تلّ • (tall) m (plural تلال (tlāl))
* hill, mound

#### Derived terms

* تل من رمل (tall min raml, “sand dune”), تلة رمل (tallet raml, “sand dune”)

#### See also

* جبل (jabal, “mountain”)

## Southwestern Fars
### Noun

تل (tol)
* (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) hill

### Adjective

تل (tāl, ta:l)
* (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) bitter

## Urdu
### Etymology

From Sanskrit तिल (tila).

### Noun

تل • (til) m (Hindi spelling तिल)
* sesame
* (anatomy) mole

#### Synonyms

* سمسم (simsim)