الو

See also: آلو and ألو

Bulgar

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *elig.

Noun

الُو (elüw)

1. hand

Derived terms

• الُوي بَڔَكاتلُ (elüwi berekētlü, “benefactor”)

Descendants

• Chuvash: алӑ (ală)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 190-191

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *ellig.

Alternative forms

• اَلُّ (ellü)

Noun

الُو (el^lüw)

1. fifty

Descendants

• Chuvash: аллӑ (allă)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎^[2] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 94, 198

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Burushaski

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu آلُو (ālū).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aːluː]

Noun

الو (aaluu)

1. potato

References

• Bechtholdt, Astrid (2024) “aaluu”, in Burushaski Hunza Dictionary (Webonary) (in Burushaski), Dallas, Texas, USA: SIL International, published 2017: “(in Latin script)”.

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Malay

Alternative forms

• alu

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *halu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, *laqəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alu/
• Rhymes: -alu, -lu, -u

Noun

الو (Rumi spelling alu)

1. pestle (instrument used with a mortar to grind things)

Pashto

Noun

الو • (alu)

1. plum
2. potato

Persian

Alternative forms

• آلاوه (âlâve) (archaic)
• آلاو (âlâv) (archaic)
• الاو (alâv) (archaic)

Etymology 1

A Turkic borrowing, compare Azerbaijani alov, Turkish alev, Kazakh алау (alau).

Noun

Dari	الو
Iranian Persian
Tajik	алов

الو • (alow)

1. (dialectal) flame, blaze

Etymology 2

From French allô.

Interjection

الو • (alo)

1. hello (when answering the telephone)

Urdu

Etymology

From Sanskrit उलूक (ulūka).

Noun

اُلو • (ullū) m (Hindi spelling उल्लू)

1. owl