Arabic

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Root
ن و ل (n w l)
9 terms

Verb

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نَاوَلَ (nāwala) III (non-past يُنَاوِلُ (yunāwilu), verbal noun مُنَاوَلَة (munāwala))

  1. (ditransitive) to hand over (construed with two direct objects)

Conjugation

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References

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  • Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “ناول”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English novel.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ناوِل (nāvilm (Hindi spelling नाविल)

  1. novel
    • 1899, مرزا محمد ہادی رسوا [Mizrā Muhammad Hadi Rusvā], امراؤ جان ادا [Umrāʾo Jān Adā], Lucknow, India: Gulab Munshi and Sons Press:
      ہمارے منشی صاحبِ مہربان کو ابتدائے سن سے قصّہ کہانیوں کا بڑا شوق تھا الف لیلہ ، امیر حمزہ کی داستان کے علاوہ بوستانِ خیال کی کل جلدیں نظر سے گذری ہوئی تھیں کوئی ناول ایسا نہ تھا جو آپ نے نہ دیکھا ہو
      hamāre munśī sāhibi-e-mehrbān ko ibtidā-e-sin se qissa kahāniyō̃ kā baṛā śauq thā Amīr Hamza kī dāstān ke ilāva bostān-e-xayāl kī kul nazar se guzrī hū'ī thī̃ ko'ī nāvil aisā na thā jo āp-ne na dekā ho
      Our dear clerk has had a great passion for stories since the beginning of time. Apart from One Thousand and One Nights and the Hamzanama, he had read all the volumes of Bostan-e-Khayal. There was no novel that he had not seen.

Declension

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Declension of ناول
singular plural
direct ناوِل (nāvil) ناوِل (nāvil)
oblique ناوِل (nāvil) ناوِلوں (nāvilō̃)
vocative ناوِل (nāvil) ناوِلو (nāvilō)

Further reading

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  • ناول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • ناول”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ناول”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.