ئايال

Uyghur
Other scripts
Perso-Arabic ئايال‎
Latin ‍ayal‍
Cyrillic аял

Etymology

From Arabic عِيَال‎ (ʕiyāl) through Persian عیال‎. The semantic sense of “wife, woman” is not present in the original Arabic term and may be a Persian (or more likely Turkic) innovation.

Compare Azerbaijani əyal, Uzbek ayol.

Noun

ئايال • (ayal) (plural ئاياللار‎ (ayallar))

  1. woman
  2. wife
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