لال

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لال • (lâl)

1. mute
2. speechless

• لالی (lâli)

• → Ottoman Turkish: لال (lāl)

  > Turkish: lal (inherited)

• → Armenian: լալ (lal)
• → Azerbaijani: lal
• → Uyghur: لال (lal)
• → Uzbek: lol

Of unknown origin.

لال • (lâl)

1. red

   Synonyms: سرخ (sorx), قرمزی (qermezi)

• → Bengali: লাল (lal)
• → Gujarati: લાલ (lāl)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: लाल (lāl)
  • Urdu: لال (lāl)
• → Nepali: लाल् (lāl)
• → Odia: ଲାଲ (lāla), ନାଲି (nāli)
• → Punjabi: لال (lāl) / ਲਾਲ (lāl)
• → Sylheti: ꠟꠣꠟ (lal)

لال • (lâl)

1. a red gemstone, cornelian, garnet, spinel, tourmaline

• → Arabic: لَعْل (laʕl)
  • → Azerbaijani: ləl
  • → Persian: لعل (la'l)
  • → Kazakh: лағыл (lağyl)
  • → Kyrgyz: лаал (laal)
  • → Tajik: лаъл (laʾl)
  • → Uzbek: laʼl
• → Middle Armenian: լալ (lal), ղաղ (ġaġ)
  • Armenian: լալ (lal)
• → Baluchi: لال (lal)
• → Georgian: ლალი (lali)
• → Kashmiri:

  Arabic script: لال (lāl)

  Devanagari script: लाल् (lāl)

• → Nepali: लाल् (lāl)
• → Tibetan: ནལ་ (nal, “a ruby-like gem”)
  • → Mongolian: нал (nal)

• Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 272

لال • (lāl) (Gurmukhi spelling ਲਾਲ)

1. red

Borrowed from Classical Persian لال (lāl). Compare Punjabi ਲਾਲ (lāl) / لال (lāl), Gujarati લાલ (lāl), Marathi लाल (lāl), Bengali লাল (lal).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /lɑːl/

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لال • (lāl) (Hindi spelling लाल)

1. red

لال • (lāl) m (Hindi spelling लाल)

1. red color

• سرخ (surx)
• قرمزی (qirmizī)
• راتا (rātā)
• رکت (rakt)
• احمر (ahmar)

From Persian لال (lâl).

• IPA^(key): /lɑl/

لال • (lal)

1. dumb, mute

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN