کاکل
Khalaj
editNoun
editکاکُل (ambur) (definite accusative کاکُلوُ, plural کاکُللار)
- Arabic spelling of kâkul (“head of hair”)
Declension
editPersian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle Mongol [script needed] (kekül).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [kɑː.ˈkul]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [kʰɒː.kʰól̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [kʰɔ.kʰúl]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | kākul |
Dari reading? | kākul |
Iranian reading? | kâkol |
Tajik reading? | kokul |
Noun
editکاکل • (kâkol) (plural کاکلها (kâkol-hâ))
- lock, forelock
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 74:
- بحق کاکل شوخت که افسر حسن است
بحق لوح جبینت که جان ماست مگر- ba-haqq-i kākul-i šōxat ki afsar-i husn ast
ba-haqq-i lawh-i jabīnat ki jān-i mā-st magar - [I swear] by the truth of your impertinent forelocks that are the diadem of beauty,
[I swear] by the truth of the table of your brow which is, perchance, my life-essence.
- ba-haqq-i kākul-i šōxat ki afsar-i husn ast
- topknot
- crest
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “کاکل”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim