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Pashto
Noun
توله • (transliteration needed) f
- flute
Persian
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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tōla
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Dari reading?
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tōla
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Iranian reading?
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tule
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Tajik reading?
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tüla
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Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle Persian *tōlag, whence also Arabic طَوْلَق (ṭawlaq, “mallow”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
توله • (tôle)
- whelp
- mallow
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Hindustani تولا (tola) / तोला (tolā). The weight corresponds to the weight of an Indian silver rupee during the whole Mughal Empire.
Noun
توله • (tôle)
- Alternative form of تولا (tôlâ, “weight measure for especially silver and gold of about 11.6 grams”)
References
- Vullers, Johann August (1855) “توله”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 482b
Ternate
Etymology
Said by de Clercq to be from Classical Malay تولق (tolak) (cf. Modern Malay tolak).
Pronunciation
Verb
توله (Rumi tola)
- (transitive) to stop
- (transitive) to interrupt
- (transitive) to decrease or reduce one's salary
- (transitive) to break
- (transitive) to cut
References
- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh