See also: ال and أل

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
ء و ل (ʔ-w-l)

Compare Akkadian 𒌷 (ālum).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʔaːl/
  • (file)

Noun edit

آل (ʔāl)

  1. family
    • a. 906, الناشئ الأكبر [an-nāšiʾ al-ʾakbar], كأنما الآل باعوا لها (first line)[1]:
      كأنما الآل باعوا لها … سوائمٌ قد غابَ راعيها
      تتلع أحياناً أكمها … ثم تهاوى في مهاويها
      As though the family sold her … cattle of which the herder dashes
      Their hills at times can hold them … Then into their pits she crashes.
  2. (obsolete) a vapor or exhalation that becomes visible in the desert in the morn or eve distinct from a سَرَاب (sarāb) by not reflecting
    • c. 700, أُميَّةُ بن أَبي عائِذٍ الهُذَليّ [Umayya ibn ʾabī ʿāʾiḏ (al-huḏalīy)], Dīwān al-Huḏalīyīn [Diwan Hodsailitarum / Hudsailian poems / Huḏaylitendiwan], page 201 verse 38 in Kosegarten’s edition:
      وَفِي غَمْرَةِ الْآلِ خِلْتُ الصُّوَى … عُرُوكًا عَلَى رَائِس يَقْسِمُونَا
      wafī ḡamrati al-ʔāli ḵiltu ṣ-ṣuwā … ʕurūkan ʕalā rāʔis yaqsimūnā
      In the overabundance of fogs I fancied the barrows … the mariners onto the valleyhead, dividing us
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Ottoman Turkish: آل (al)
  • Persian: آل (âl)

Etymology 2 edit

Root
ء و ل (ʔ-w-l)

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

آلَ (ʔāla) I, non-past يَؤُولُ‎ (yaʔūlu)

  1. to return
  2. to turn into, to become [+ إِلَى (object)]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:صار
Conjugation edit

Etymology 3 edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

آلُ (ʔālu) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of أَلَا (ʔalā)

References edit

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Arabic آل (ʔāl).

Noun edit

آل (al)

  1. family

References edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Turkic *āl.

Adjective edit

آل (al)

  1. crimson, red
Descendants edit
  • Turkish: al
  • Albanian: all
  • Armenian: ալ (al)
  • Greek: άλικος (álikos, crimson)
  • Persian: آل (âl)

See also edit

Colors in Ottoman Turkish · بویا بویلر (boyalar) (layout · text)
     آق (ak)      بوز (boz)      قره (kara)
             قزل (kızıl); آل (al)              ترنجی (türünci); قوڭور (koñur)              صاری (sarı)
                          یشیل (yeşil)             
                          گوك (gök)              ماوی (mavi)
             مور (mor)              افلاطون (eflatun)              پنبه (pembe)

Persian edit

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? āl
Dari reading? āl
Iranian reading? âl
Tajik reading? ol

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-.[1] Compare آلا (âlâ), Dezfuli آل (âl, pink), Mazanderani آل (âl, reddish color, red horse), Northern Talyshi āl ("crimson").

Adjective edit

آل (âl)

  1. pale red, pink
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Of Turkic Origin, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *āl.

Adjective edit

آل (âl)

  1. (in compounds) bright red, red, scarlet

References edit

  1. ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 122

Ushojo edit

Noun edit

آل (āl)

  1. race
  2. ethnicity