قول

From Proto-West Semitic *ḳawl- (“voice”). Cognate with Aramaic קָלָא (qālā, “sound; voice; noise”), Hebrew קוֹל (qōl, “sound; voice; noise”), and Ge'ez ቃል (ḳal, “sound; voice; speech; statement”).

• IPA^(key): /qawl/
• Rhymes: -awl

قَوْل • (qawl) m (plural أَقْوَال (ʔaqwāl) or أَقَاوِيل (ʔaqāwīl))

1. verbal noun of قَالَ (qāla) (form I)
2. (countable) a saying; a declaration; a statement; an assertion

   Synonym: كَلَام (kalām, “words”)

   قَرَآْتُ أَقْوَالَ الْمُعْتَزِلَةِ.

   qaraʔātu ʔaqwāla al-muʕtazilati.

   I was reading about the assertions of the Muʿtazilites.

   • a. 966, Al-Mutanabbi

     وَكَمْ مِنْ عَائِبٍ قَوْلًا صَحِيحًا / وَآفَتُهُ مِنَ الْفَهْمِ السَّقِيمِ

     wakam min ʕāʔibin qawlan ṣaḥīḥan / waʔāfatuhū mina l-fahmi s-saqīmi

     And how many are those who criticize a sound saying – while the fault is in their ill understanding!

3. (uncountable) the power of speaking; speech

   Synonyms: كَلَام (kalām), مَنْطِق (manṭiq)

• Maltese: qawl
• → Northern Kurdish: qewl
• → Persian: قول (qowl)
  • → Azerbaijani: qövl
  • → Bengali: কওল (koul)
  • → Gujarati: કોલ (kol)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: क़ौल (qaul)

    Urdu: قَول (qaul)

  • → Marathi: कौल (kaul)
  • → Marwari: कौल (kaul)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਕੌਲ (kaul)

    Shahmukhi script: قَول (qaul)

  • → Sindhi:

    Arabic script: قَوْلُ

    Devanagari script: क़ौलु

قَوَّلَ • (qawwala) II (non-past يُقَوِّلُ (yuqawwilu), verbal noun تَقْوِيل (taqwīl))

1. (ditransitive) to say about to have said

   لَا تُقَوِّلْنِي مَا لَمْ أَقُل!

   lā tuqawwilnī mā lam ʔaqul!

   Don’t put into my mouth what I never said!

From Arabic قَوْل (qawl).

• IPA^(key): /ɡoːl/,

قول • (gōl) m (dual قولين (gōlēn), plural أقوال (ʔagwāl))

1. a saying

• قولة (gōla, “remark”)

From Arabic قَوَّل (qawwal).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaw.wal/

قول • (gawwal) II (non-past يقول (yigawwil), verbal noun تقويل (tagwīl), passive participle منقال (mungāl))

1. (ditransitive) to say about, to have said

From English goal.

• IPA^(key): /ɡoːl/,

قول • (gōl) m (plural أقوال (ʔagwāl))

1. (sports) goal

   Synonym: هدف (hadaf)

• IPA^(key): /ɡuːl/

قول • (gūl)

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of قال (gāl)

قوْل (qol) (definite accusative قوْلوُ, plural قوْللار)

1. Arabic spelling of qol (“arm”)

From Old Anatolian Turkish قل (qul), from Proto-Turkic *kul (“slave, servant”).

قول • (kul)

1. servant
   1. villein, serf
   2. soldier, footman; patrol, watchman

• قوللق / قوللوق (kulluk, “service”)
  • قوللقچی (kullukçı, “servant”)
• قوللنمق / قولانمق (kullanmak, “to use”)
• بوغاز قولی (boğaz kulı, “belly-god, gourmand”)

• Turkish: kul

From Proto-Turkic *kol (“arm”).

قول • (kol)

1. arm

   قول بورمق ― kol burmak ― to bend the arm

2. branch, section, division
   1. squadron of soldiers watching out, platoon of an army going out for patrol, vigil

      قول دولاشمق ― kol dolaşmak ― to walk patrol

• قولتوق (koltuk, “armpit; corner-shop; armchair”)
• قولاج (kulaç, “as far as an arm can reach; fathom”)
• قولچاق (kolçak, “brassard, gauntlet”)
• قولاق (kolak, “one who has lost an arm, arm-cripple”)
• قولداش (koldaş, “companion, associate”)
• قوللامق (kollamak, “to help, to assist; to protect, to look after, to guard”)
• قولای (kolay, “easy to handle, facile”)

From Arabic قَوْل (qawl).

قول • (kavl) (plural اقاویل (ekavil))

1. saying, dictum, utterance, sentence
2. vow, agreement, covenant

• Turkish: kavil

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 986
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قول”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 3800–3805

Borrowed from Arabic قَوْل (qawl).

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قول • (qowl) (plural اقوال (aqvâl) or اقاویل (aqâvil))

1. promise, vow, one's word

   Synonym: وعده (va'de)

   • 1705, Guru Gobind Singh, “verse 15”, in ظفرنامه [Zafarnama]:

     کسی قول قرآن کند اعتبار
     همان روز آخر شود مرد خوار

     kasi qowl-e qor-ân konad e'tebâr
     hamân ruz-e âxar šavad mard xâr

     Whoever puts stock in the vow on the Qur'an: he will be a wretched man in the end.

2. saying, speech, words

   Synonyms: گفته (gofte), حرف (harf)

   • 11th century, ناصرخسرو [Nasir Khusraw], دیوان اشعار پارسی:

     به راه چشم شنو قول این جهان که حکیم
     به راه چشم شنوده است گفتهٔ دنیی

     be râh-e čašm šenow qowl-e in jahân ke hakim
     be râh-e čašm šonude ast gofte-ye donyi

     Listen by way of the eyes to the words of this world, for the wise man has heard the world's sayings by way of his eyes.

3. saying, aphorism, dictum

From Proto-Turkic *kol (“arm”). Cognate with Turkish kol (“arm”).

قول • (qol) (plural قوللار (qollar))

1. hand