अक़्ल

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Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَقل ('aql), from Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql). First attested as Old Hindi अकलि (akali). Cognate with Bengali আকল (akol), Gujarati અક્કલ (akkal), Marathi अक्कल (akkal), Punjabi ਅਕਲ (akal) / عَقل (ʻaql).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /əql/, , /əkl/, , /ə.qəl/, , /ə.kəl/,
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Noun

अक़्ल (aqlaf (Urdu spelling عَقْل)

  1. understanding, wisdom
  2. mind

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Further reading

2=851 Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.S. W. Fallon (1879) “अक़्ल”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.

  • McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “aqla”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 11
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “280”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • अक़्ल”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “अक़्ल”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1224