کاکل

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Noun

کاکُل (kâkul) (definite accusative کاکُلؽ, plural کاکُللار)

  1. Arabic spelling of kâkul (forelock)

Declension

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Mongol (kekül).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? kākul
Dari reading? kākul
Iranian reading? kâkol
Tajik reading? kokul

Noun

کاکل (kâkol) (plural کاکل‌ها (kâkol-hâ))

  1. lock, forelock
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 74:
      بحق کاکل شوخت که افسر حسن است
      بحق لوح جبینت که جان ماست مگر
      ba-haqq-i kākul-i šōxat ki afsar-i husn ast
      ba-haqq-i lawh-i jabīnat ki jān-i mā-st magar
      by the truth of your impertinent forelocks that are the diadem of beauty,
      by the truth of the table of your brow which is, perchance, my life-essence.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. topknot
  3. crest

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