See also: نؤل, بول, تول, تؤل, and پول

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
ن و ل (n-w-l)

Verb edit

نَوَّلَ (nawwala) II, non-past يُنَوِّلُ‎ (yunawwilu)

  1. to procure, to give, to present with
Conjugation edit

Noun edit

نَوْل (nawlm (plural أَنْوَال (ʔanwāl))

  1. verbal noun of نَالَ (nāla) (form I)
  2. gift, donation, portion shared with someone
  3. the right thing, what is proper or due
Declension edit

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Aramaic נַוְולָא / ܢܰܘܠܴܐ (nawlā).

Noun edit

نَوْل (nawlm (plural أَنْوَال (ʔanwāl))

  1. warp beam
  2. loom
  3. mode, wise, fashion, manner, “way things roll
Declension edit
Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ναῦλος (naûlos).

Noun edit

نَوْل (nawlm (plural أَنْوَال (ʔanwāl))

  1. fare for a ship, freight
Declension edit
Alternative forms edit

Etymology 4 edit

Verb edit

نُولَ (nūla) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of وَلِيَ (waliya)

Etymology 5 edit

Verb edit

نُولِ (nūli) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of أَوْلَى (ʔawlā)

Verb edit

نُولَ (nūla) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of أَوْلَى (ʔawlā)

References edit

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1299
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 94
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نول”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 355a
  • Podolsky, Baruch (1998) “Notes on Hebrew Etymology”, in Schlomo Isre'el, Itamar Singer, Ran Zadok, editors, Past links: Studies in the languages and cultures of the ancient Near East (Israel Oriental studies; 18)‎[2], Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, →ISBN, pages 200–201


Malay edit

Malay cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : نول

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Latin nūllus.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

نول (Rumi spelling nol)

  1. zero

Synonyms edit

Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian *nōl, found borrowed in Aramaic נַוְולָא / ܢܰܘܠܴܐ (nawlā) (meaning in Judaeo-Aramaic “loom” and Classical Syriac “beam”). Ultimately via the expansion of the drawloom westwards in Roman times from Proto-Dravidian *nūl (thread).

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? nōl
Dari reading? nōl
Iranian reading? nul
Tajik reading? nül

Noun edit

نول (nôl)

  1. the outer part of the mouth; a beak, bill
  2. a spout; the neck of a bottle
  3. tube, channel
  4. anything on which one leans or is supported
  5. a whirlpool, vortex

References edit

  • Podolsky, Baruch (1998) “Notes on Hebrew Etymology”, in Schlomo Isre'el, Itamar Singer, Ran Zadok, editors, Past links: Studies in the languages and cultures of the ancient Near East (Israel Oriental studies; 18)‎[3], Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, →ISBN, pages 200–201
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “نول”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “نول”, 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[4] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1372