Persian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

A distortion of an Arabic word from the root خ ت ل (ḵ-t-l).

Pronunciation edit

Readings
Classical reading? xātūla

Noun edit

خاتوله (xâtule)

  1. (obsolete) evilness, treachery

References edit

  • Blochmann, Heinrich (1872) The Prosody of the Persians According to Saifi, Jami and Other Writers[1], Calcutta, page 6 of the preface
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “خاتوله”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum[2] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 634