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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