توله

See also: تؤله and پوله

Pashto

Noun

توله • (transliteration needed) f

1. flute

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [toː.la]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰoː.lä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰoː.lä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰoː.lä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰʊː.lä]

• (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

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

توله • (tôle)

1. whelp
2. mallow

Derived terms

• توله‌سگ (tule-sag)
• توله‌شیر (tule-šir)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindustani تولا (tola) / तोला (tolā). The weight corresponds to the weight of an Indian silver rupee during the whole Mughal Empire.

Noun

توله • (tôle)

1. Alternative form of تولا (tôlâ, “weight measure for especially silver and gold of about 11.6 grams”)

References

• 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

Etymology

Said by de Clercq to be from Classical Malay تولق (tolak) (cf. Modern Malay tolak).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈto.la]

Verb

توله (Rumi tola)

1. (transitive) to stop
2. (transitive) to interrupt
3. (transitive) to decrease or reduce one's salary
4. (transitive) to break
5. (transitive) to cut

References

• 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