See alfil on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Arabic الْفِيل (al-fīl, “the elephant”) via Andalusian Arabic, from Classical Persian پیل (pīl).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "alfiles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "arfil",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "alfil m (plural alfiles)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"al‧fil"
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "marfil"
},
{
"word": "rey"
},
{
"word": "dama"
},
{
"word": "reina"
},
{
"word": "torre"
},
{
"word": "roque"
},
{
"word": "caballo"
},
{
"word": "peón"
}
],
"senses": [
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"categories": [
"Old Spanish terms with quotations",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Rhymes:Spanish/il",
"Rhymes:Spanish/il/2 syllables",
"Spanish 2-syllable words",
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish masculine nouns",
"Spanish nouns",
"Spanish terms borrowed from Andalusian Arabic",
"Spanish terms borrowed from Arabic",
"Spanish terms derived from Andalusian Arabic",
"Spanish terms derived from Arabic",
"Spanish terms derived from Classical Persian",
"Spanish terms derived from Persian",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Spanish terms with audio pronunciation",
"Spanish terms with quotations",
"es:Chess"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Bishops have to be made as of elephants and castles, on top of which full of of armed men, as if they wanted to fight.",
"ref": "1283, Alfonso X the Wise, “Libro del acedrex [Book of Chess]”, in Libro de los juegos [Book of Games], folio 4v:",
"text": "Los alffiles an a ſeer fechos a manera de eleffantes ⁊ castiellos en cima dellos llenos de omnes armados como ſi quiſieſſen lidiar.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Bishops claim the name of whichever color they land in first, color which is kept until the end.",
"ref": "1858, Gerónimo Borao, “De los alfiles [Of the Bishops]” (chapter 5), in El ajedrez: tratado de sus principios fundamentales [Chess: Treaty of its fundamental principles], Zaragoza: Vicente Andrés, page 44:",
"text": "Los alfiles toman nombre del color en donde al principio se asientan, color que conservan hasta el fin[…].",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"bishop"
],
"links": [
[
"chess",
"chess"
],
[
"bishop",
"bishop"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chess) bishop"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"board-games",
"chess",
"games"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/alˈfil/"
},
{
"ipa": "[alˈfil]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-il"
}
],
"word": "alfil"
}
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