اول

اُولُ • (ūlu) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of أَلَا (ʔalā)

• آول

From Proto-Turkic *ogul.

اَول (awıl or awul)

1. (Volga Bulgar) son

• اَوْلِ (awlı)

• Chuvash: ывӑл (yvăl)

• A Volga Bulgarian Inscription From 1307 A. Róna-tas, page 155
• Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 182-183

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• IPA^(key):

اول (uul)

1. (anatomy) belly

• Sadaf Munshi (2015) “Word Lists”, in Burushaski Language Documentation Project‎.
• Bechtholdt, Astrid (2024) “اول”, in Burushaski Hunza Dictionary (Webonary) (in Burushaski), Dallas, Texas, USA: SIL International, published 2017: “(in Latin script)”.

• او (u)

اول (ul)

1. he, she, it

اول • (awwil) (feminine اولى (ūla), masculine plural اوايل (awāyil))

1. Alternative spelling of أول

From Sanskrit आलय (ālaya).

اول • (ōl) m (plural ٲلؠ, Devanagari ओल, Sharada 𑆏𑆬𑇀)

1. a nest
2. a recess in a wall used as a shelf

اَوَّل (əvvəl)

1. Arabic spelling of əvvəl (“first”)

From Proto-Turkic *o-l (“that”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰆𐰞 (ol), Karakhanid اُلْ (ol), Kazakh ол (ol), etc.

• او (o)

اول • (ol)

1. (demonstrative) he, she, it
   • 16th ce., Tiryâkî Hasan Paşa, Gazavât-ı Tiryâkî:

     امدی بندن قاپودانه سلام ایله اول دخی قراللاروڭوره خبر ایده

     İmdi benden kapudana selam eyle, ol dahı krallaruñuza haber ede

     Now go and give your captain my regards, may he inform your kings too

• Turkish: o

• بو (bu)
• شو (şu)
• شول (şol)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “او”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 167
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) Linguarum orientalium Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae institutiones seu Grammatica Turcica in qua orthographia, etymologia, syntaxis, prosodia, et reliqua eò spectantia exacte tractantur, exemplisque perspicuis illustrantur et cuius singulis capitubus praecepta linguarum Arabicae et Persicae subjiciuntur‎, Vienna, page 146
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “او”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 232
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 265

From Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal).

اول • (evvel)

1. first
2. old

• اولكی (evvelki)

• Turkish: evvel

اول • (evvel)

1. beginning

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 199
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “evvel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Borrowed from Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal).

اَوَّل • (avval)

1. first, firstly

   Synonyms: اَوَّلاً (avvalan), اَوَّلین (avvalin), نُخُسْت (noxost)

اول • (avval)

1. first

   Synonyms: یِکُم (yekom), نُخُسْت (noxost)

• Dari: اَوَّل (awwal)
• Iranian Persian: اَوَّل (avval)
• Tajik: аввал (avval)
• → Bengali: আউয়াল (aual)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: अव्वल (avval)

  Urdu: اَوَّل (avval)

• → Khalaj: əvvəl

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَوَّل (awwal), from Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əʋː.əl/
• Rhymes: -əl
• Hyphenation: اَوْ‧وَل

اَوَّل • (avval) (Hindi spelling अव्वल)

1. first

   Synonyms: پہلا (pahlā), یکم (yakam), نخست (nuxust)

2. foremost, primary

   Synonyms: نخستین (nuxustīn), اولین (avvalīn), اولاً (avvalan)

3. first-class, excellent, highest

اَوَّل • (avval) m (Hindi spelling अव्वल)

1. beginning, first or early part

• “اول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “اول”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.