چول

Chagatai

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čöl.

Noun

چول (çöl)

1. desert

Iraqi Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چول (çöl)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃoːl/

Noun

چول (čōl) m

1. desert, wasteland

Ottoman Turkish

چول

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čöl (“steppe, desert”); cognate with Azerbaijani çöl, Bashkir сүл (sül), Kazakh шөл (şöl), Kyrgyz чөл (cöl), Tatar чүл (çül), Turkmen çöl, Uyghur چۆل (chöl) and Uzbek choʻl.

Noun

چول • (çöl)

1. desert, wasteland, an uninhabited and uncultivated tract of land

Adjective

چول • (çöl)

1. uninhabited or uninhabitable, barren, waste

   Synonym: خراب (harab)

Descendants

• Turkish: çöl
• → Armenian: չոլ (čʻol)
• → Iraqi Arabic: چول (čōl)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çöl1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1042
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چول”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 192a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 481
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Desertum”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 362
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چول”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1683
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çöl”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739

Etymology 2

چول

From Persian جل (joll, “saddlecloth”).

Alternative forms

• جل (cüll)

Noun

چول • (çul)

1. haircloth, horsehair, a cloth made of the hairs of a horse
2. saddlecloth, horsecloth, a rug or similar cloth used to cover a horse

   Synonyms: چاپراق (çaprak), خاشه (haşa)

Derived terms

• چول طوتمز (çul tutmaz, “unsettled, fickle, shiftless”)
• چول چوال (çul çuval, “haircloth sack”)
• چوللاتمق (çullatmak, “to make or let be covered with a horsecloth”)
• چوللامق (çullamak, “to cover with a horsecloth”)
• چوللانمق (çullanmak, “to be covered with a horsecloth”)
• چوللو (çullu, “furnished with a horsecloth”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çul
• → Armenian: չուլ (čʻul), ջուլ (ǰul), չո̈ւլ (čʻül), ջո̈ւլ (ǰül)
• → Bulgarian: чул (čul)
• → Greek: τσόλι (tsóli)
• → Macedonian: чул (čul)
• → Serbo-Croatian: čȕl／чу̏л

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çul1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1056
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[6], Constantinople: Mihran, page 481
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stragula”, 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^[7], Vienna, column 1600
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چول”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[8], Vienna, column 1683
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çul”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739

Punjabi

Etymology

From چَبَل (cabal).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃə.ʋəlᵊ/

Adjective

چَوَل • (caval) (indeclinable, Gurmukhi spelling ਚਵਲ)

1. (derogatory) tight; prick

   Synonyms: کَھچّ (khacc), کَمِینَہ (kamīnah)

Noun

چَوَل • (caval) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਚਵਲ)

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Declension

Declension of چول
dir. sg.	چوَل (cval)
dir. pl.	چوَلاں (cvalāṉ)
	singular	plural
direct	چوَل (cval)	چوَلاں (cvalāṉ)
oblique	چوَل (cval)	چوَلاں (cvalāṉ)
vocative	چوَلے (cvale)	چوَلو (cvalo)
ablative	چوَلوں (cvaloṉ)	—
locative	چوَلے (cvale)	چوَلِیں (cvalīṉ)
instrumental	چوَلے (cvale)	چوَلِیں (cvalīṉ)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “چوَل”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Chagatai چول (çöl).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃuːl/

Noun

چُول • (cūl) m (Hindi spelling चूल)

1. desert, barren land

References

• “چول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “چول”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.