ایل

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ēl (“realm”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰃𐰠 (é̄l), Azerbaijani el, Bashkir ил (il), Chuvash ял (jal), Kazakh ел (el), Kyrgyz эл (el), Tatar ил (il), Turkmen īl, Uyghur ئەل (el) and Uzbek el.

ایل • (il)

1. (originally) any other person that one's self, others, other people
2. any person or persons other than one's own household, tribe, or nation, strangers
3. tribe, people, or nation; especially a subdivision of a large tribe called ulus
4. the country of any particular tribe, or ruled over by any particular man or dynasty

   Synonyms: اولكا (ülke), دولت (devlet)

• Gagauz: iel
• Turkish: il, el

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “il1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2132
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 223
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Regio”, 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, Vienna, column 1452
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ایل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 604
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “il”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 302

From a Turkic language, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ēl.

ایل • (il) (plural ایلات (ilât) or ایل‌ها (il-hâ))

1. clan
2. tribe

• ایلی

From either Azerbaijani il (“year”) or Ottoman Turkish ییل (yıl, “year”).

ایل • (il)

1. year (used only in Turkic year names)

From Arabic أُيَّل (ʔuyyal).

ایل • (oyyal)

1. (Classical Persian) deer, stag