تیله

Of Iranic origin; perhaps entered standard Persian as a dialectal form or from another Iranian language.

Compare Classical Persian دیده‎ (dīda, “iris, eye”), Middle Persian tytk' (*tīdag, “pupil”), and Baluchi تیلگ‎ (tilag, “eye”).

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /teːla/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /teːla/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /tiːle/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /tela/

تیله • (tile)

1. marble
2. (poetic, dialectal) eye, pupil

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “تیله”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “tytk'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 83