Etymology 1
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Sensational spelling.
Adjective
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qewl
- (slang, nonstandard) Rare form of cool.
Etymology 2
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From Northern Kurdish قەول (qewl, “word, speech”), from Arabic قول (qawl).
qewl (plural qewls)
- (ethnomusicology, religion) A Yazidi hymn.
2017 September 13, Alex Cuadros, “Songs from Sinjar”, in Lapham’s Quarterly[1], retrieved 2020-07-03:In Kurmanji, the dialect spoken by most Yezidis and northern Kurds, the holiest of hymns is a qewl.