هول

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Arabic

Etymology

Root
ه و ل (h w l)
3 terms

Verbal noun of هَالَ (hāla, to scare away, to frighten).

Pronunciation

Noun

هَوْل (hawlm (plural أَهْوَال (ʔahwāl) or هُؤُول (huʔūl))

  1. verbal noun of هَالَ (hāla) (form I)
  2. fright, terror, anything fearful

Declension

Descendants

References

Persian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Readings
Iranian reading? haval

Noun

هول (haval)

  1. (neologism, slang) man who tries to seduce girls
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic هَوْل (hawl).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? hawl
Dari reading? hawl
Iranian reading? howl
Tajik reading? havl

Noun

هول (howl)

  1. shock, terror
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume V, verse 3766:
      گردش چشمش مرا لشکر نمود
      من ندانم گفت چون پر هول بود
      gardiš-i čašm-aš ma-rā laškar namūd
      man na-dānam guft čūn pur-hawl būd
      The rolling of his eyes seemed to me an army
      I cannot describe how terrible it was.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
    • 1976, خسرو شاهانی, “عینک طبی”, in کور لعنتی:
      ولی از بس هول شده بودم چشم راستم هم دیگر کار نمی‌کرد.
      vali az bas howl šode budam češm-e râst-am ham digar kâr ne-mi-kard.
      But I had become so terrified that my right eye was also no longer working .
Descendants
  • Punjabi: ਹੌਲ / هول (haul)