جال

From Proto-Turkic *yāĺ.

جال (cāl)

1. (Volga Bulgar) year

• Chuvash: ҫул (śul)

• A Volga Bulgarıan Inscription From 1307 A. Róna-tas, page 162

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒäːɭə̆/, /d͡ʒäːlə̆/

Inherited from Sanskrit जाल (jāla). Compare Hindi जाल (jāl) and Urdu جال‎ (jāl).

جاࣇ • (jāḷ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਜਾਲ or ਜਾਲ਼)

1. net
2. (figuratively) trap

   ‏اوْہ آپݨے جال وِچّ ہی پَھسّ جاݨ گے۔‎‎

   oh āpṇe jāl vicc hī phass jāṇ ge.

   They will fall into their own trap.

   (literally, “They own trap in too stuck will be.”)

Corrupted from یال‎ (yal).

جال • (jāl) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਜਾਲ)

1. Alternative form of یال‎ (yal)

• “جال‎”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2023
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “جال‎”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Inherited from Sanskrit जाल (jāla). Cognate with Assamese জাল (zal), Punjabi ਜਾਲ਼ (jāḷ), Sinhalese දැල (dæla).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑːl/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑːl/
• Rhymes: -ɑːl

جال • (transliteration needed) m (Hindi spelling जाल)

1. net
2. (figuratively) trap, snare
3. (rare) web, spider web

   Synonym: جالا‎ (jālā)

4. (computing, neologism) net, network, web

• “جال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “جال”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.