фил: elephant
The Indian elephant compared to the African elephant is smaller.
Филҳо аз ҳайвоноти азимҷуссаи хушкигард ба шумор мераванд.
Elephants are considered to be large-bodied land animals.
Bonus:
When you use countries as adjectives, as in the first sentence, you add the letter ӣ.
хартум – trunk
You can read more about elephants here: Қатори хартумдорон. (This is a Tajik website with lots of good reading material.)
Фил ва Мурча барои оббозӣ ба кӯли Комсомоли шаҳри Душанбе мераванд. Баъди 10 дақиқаи Фил аз об берун мебарояд. Мурча сарашро аз об бардошта фарёд мезанад:
-Боз саросема шуда, либосҳои маро напушӣ.
(from Latifa TJ, read more jokes and stories on that website)
An elephant and an ant went to swim at lake Komsomoli in the city of Dushanbe. After 10 minutes the elephant came out of the water. The ant lifted his head out of the water and cried out:
-Don’t be in such a hurry and (accidentally) put on my clothes.