توله
Pashto edit
Noun edit
توله • (transliteration needed) f
Persian edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [toː.la]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰuː.le]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰɵ.lä]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | tōla |
| Dari reading? | tōla |
| Iranian reading? | tule |
| Tajik reading? | tüla |
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle Persian *tōlag, whence also Arabic طَوْلَق (ṭawlaq, “mallow”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
توله • (tôle)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Hindustani تولا (tola) / तोला (tolā). The weight corresponds to the weight of an Indian silver rupee during the whole Mughal Empire.
Noun edit
توله • (tôle)
- Alternative form of تولا (tôlâ, “weight measure for especially silver and gold of about 11.6 grams”)
References edit
- Vullers, Johann August (1855) “توله”, 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[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 482b
Ternate edit
Etymology edit
Said by de Clercq to be from Classical Malay تولق (tolak) (cf. Modern Malay tolak).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
توله (Rumi tola)
- (transitive) to stop
- (transitive) to interrupt
- (transitive) to decrease or reduce one's salary
- (transitive) to break
- (transitive) to cut
References edit
- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh