ناول

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Arabic

Root
ن و ل (n w l)
9 terms

Verb

نَاوَلَ (nāwala) III (non-past يُنَاوِلُ (yunāwilu), verbal noun مُنَاوَلَة (munāwala))

  1. (ditransitive) to hand over (construed with two direct objects)

Conjugation

References

  • Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “ناول”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN

Urdu

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Etymology

Borrowed from English novel.

Pronunciation

Noun

ناوِل (nāvilm (Hindi spelling नाविल)

  1. novel
    • 1899, مرزا محمد ہادی رسوا [Mizrā Muhammad Hadi Rusvā], امراؤ جان ادا [Umrāʾo Jān Adā], Lucknow, India: Gulab Munshi and Sons Press:
      ہمارے منشی صاحبِ مہربان کو ابتدائے سن سے قصّہ کہانیوں کا بڑا شوق تھا الف لیلہ ، امیر حمزہ کی داستان کے علاوہ بوستانِ خیال کی کل جلدیں نظر سے گذری ہوئی تھیں کوئی ناول ایسا نہ تھا جو آپ نے نہ دیکھا ہو
      hamāre munśī sāhibi-e-mehrbān ko ibtidā-e-sin se qissa kahāniyō̃ kā baṛā śauq thā Amīr Hamza kī dāstān ke ilāva bostān-e-xayāl kī kul nazar se guzrī hū'ī thī̃ ko'ī nāvil aisā na thā jo āp-ne na dekā ho
      Our dear clerk has had a great passion for stories since the beginning of time. Apart from One Thousand and One Nights and the Hamzanama, he had read all the volumes of Bostan-e-Khayal. There was no novel that he had not seen.

Declension

Declension of ناول
singular plural
direct ناوِل (nāvil) ناوِل (nāvil)
oblique ناوِل (nāvil) ناوِلوں (nāvilō̃)
vocative ناوِل (nāvil) ناوِلو (nāvilō)

Further reading

  • ناول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • ناول”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ناول”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.