چول

Chagatai

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čöl.

Noun

چول (çöl)

  1. desert

Ottoman Turkish

چول

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čöl (“steppe, desert”); cognate with Azerbaijani çöl, Bashkir сүл (sül), Kazakh шөл (şöl), Kyrgyz чөл (çöl), Tatar чүл (çül), Turkmen çöl, Uyghur چۆل‎ (chöl) and Uzbek choʻl.

Noun

چول • (çöl)

  1. desert, wasteland, an uninhabited and uncultivated tract of land

Adjective

چول • (çöl)

  1. uninhabited or uninhabitable, barren, waste
    Synonym: خراب‎ (harab)

Descendants

  • Turkish: çöl
  • → Armenian: չոլ (čʿol)

Further reading

Etymology 2

چول

From Persian جل‎ (joll, “saddlecloth”).

Alternative forms

Noun

چول • (çul)

  1. haircloth, horsehair, a cloth made of the hairs of a horse
  2. saddlecloth, horsecloth, a rug or similar cloth used to cover a horse
Derived terms
  • چول طوتمز‎ (çul tutmaz, “unsettled, fickle, shiftless”)
  • چول چوال‎ (çul çuval, “haircloth sack”)
  • چوللاتمق‎ (çullatmak, “to make or let be covered with a horsecloth”)
  • چوللامق‎ (çullamak, “to cover with a horsecloth”)
  • چوللانمق‎ (çullanmak, “to be covered with a horsecloth”)
  • چوللو‎ (çullu, “furnished with a horsecloth”)
Descendants
  • Turkish: çul
  • → Armenian: չուլ (čʿul), ջուլ (ǰul), չո̈ւլ (čʿül), ջո̈ւլ (ǰül)
  • → Bulgarian: чул (čul)
  • → Macedonian: чул (čul)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: чу̏л
    Latin script: čȕl

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Chagatai چول‎ (çöl).

Pronunciation

Noun

چُول • (cūl) m (Hindi spelling चूल)

  1. desert, barren land

References

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