آل

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See also: ال and أل

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ء و ل (ʔ w l)
10 terms

Compare Akkadian 𒌷 (ālum).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaːl/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

آل (ʔāl)

  1. family
    • a. 906, الناشئ الأكبر [an-nāšiʾ al-ʾakbar], كأنما الآل باعوا لها (first line):
      كأنما الآل باعوا لها … سوائمٌ قد غابَ راعيها
      تتلع أحياناً أكمها … ثم تهاوى في مهاويها
      As though the family sold her … cattle of which the herder dashes
      Their hills at times can hold them … Then into their pits she crashes.
  2. (obsolete) a vapor or exhalation that becomes visible in the desert in the morn or eve distinct from a سَرَاب (sarāb) by not reflecting
    • c. 700, أُميَّةُ بن أَبي عائِذٍ الهُذَليّ [Umayya ibn ʾabī ʿāʾiḏ (al-huḏalīy)], Dīwān al-Huḏalīyīn [Diwan Hodsailitarum / Hudsailian poems / Huḏaylitendiwan], page 201 verse 38 in Kosegarten’s edition:
      وَفِي غَمْرَةِ الْآلِ خِلْتُ الصُّوَى … عُرُوكًا عَلَى رَائِس يَقْسِمُونَا
      wafī ḡamrati al-ʔāli ḵiltu ṣ-ṣuwā … ʕurūkan ʕalā rāʔis yaqsimūnā
      In the overabundance of fogs I fancied the barrows … the mariners onto the valleyhead, dividing us
Declension
Descendants
  • Ottoman Turkish: آل (al)
  • Persian: آل (âl)

Etymology 2

Root
ء و ل (ʔ w l)
10 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

آلَ (ʔāla) I (non-past يَؤُولُ (yaʔūlu), verbal noun أَوْل (ʔawl) or إِيَال (ʔiyāl) or أَيْلُولَة (ʔaylūla))

  1. to return
  2. to turn into, to become
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:صار
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Verb

آلُ (ʔālu) (form I) /ʔaː.lu/

  1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of أَلَا (ʔalā)

References

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Arabic آل (ʔāl).

Noun

آل (al)

  1. family

References

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *āl.

Adjective

آل (al)

  1. crimson, red
Descendants
  • Turkish: al
  • Albanian: all
  • Armenian: ալ (al)
  • Greek: άλικος (álikos, crimson)
  • Persian: آل (âl)

See also

Colors in Ottoman Turkish · بویا بویلر (boyalar) (layout · text)
     آق (ak)      بوز (boz)      قره (kara)
             قزل (kızıl); آل (al)              ترنجی (türünci); قوڭور (koñur)              صاری (sarı)
                          یشیل (yeşil)             
                          گوك (gök)              ماوی (mavi)
             مور (mor)              افلاطون (eflatun)              پنبه (pembe)

Persian

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? āl
Dari reading? āl
Iranian reading? âl
Tajik reading? ol

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-.[1] Compare آلا (âlâ), Dezfuli آل (âl, pink), Mazanderani آل (âl, reddish color, red horse), Northern Talyshi āl ("crimson").

Adjective

آل (âl)

  1. pale red, pink
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Of Turkic Origin, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *āl.

Adjective

آل (âl)

  1. (in compounds) bright red, red, scarlet

References

  1. ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 122

Ushojo

Noun

آل (āl)

  1. race
  2. ethnicity