بوتل

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani بوتَل (botal) / बोतल (botal), from Portuguese botelha.

Pronunciation

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [boː.t̪ʰǽl]

Readings
Dari reading?	bōtal

Noun

Dari	بوتل
Iranian Persian	بطری
Tajik	шиша

بوتل • (bōtal)

1. (Dari) bottle

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin buttis

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin -culus

Late Latin butticula

Old French boteille

French bouteillebor.

Portuguese botelhabor.

Urdu بوتل

Borrowed from Portuguese botelha.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /boː.t̪əl/
• Rhymes: -əl
• Hyphenation: بو‧تَل

Noun

بوتَل • (botal) f (Hindi spelling बोतल)

1. bottle
2. (euphemistic) wine bottle

Declension

Declension of بوتل

	singular	plural
direct	بوتَل (botal)	بوتَلیں (botalẽ)
oblique	بوتَل (botal)	بوتَلوں (botalõ)
vocative	بوتَل (botal)	بوتَلو (botalo)

Descendants

• → Dari: بوتل (bōtal)

Further reading

• “بوتل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بوتل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بوتل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “بوتل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

Ushojo

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin buttis

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin -culus

Late Latin butticula

Old French boteille

French bouteillebor.

Portuguese botelhabor.

Urdu بوتَل (botal)bor.

Ushojo بوتل

From Urdu بوتل (bōtal).

Noun

بوتل (bōtal)

1. bottle