اصل

See also: أصل, آصل, and أضل

Arabic

Verb

اِصْلِ • (iṣli) (form I) /isˤ.li/

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of صَلَى (ṣalā)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَصْل (ʔaṣl).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔasl]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäsl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäsl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäsl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäsl̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæsl̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäsl]

Readings
Classical reading?	asl
Dari reading?	asl
Iranian reading?	asl
Tajik reading?	asl

Adjective

اصل • (asl)

1. genuine
2. original

Noun

اصل • (asl) (plural اصول (osul) or اصل‌ها (asl-hâ))

1. origin, source
2. original (copy)
3. principle, tenet, foundation

Related terms

• اصالت (esâlat)
• اصالتاً (esâlatan)
• اصلاً (aslan)
• اصلی (asli)
• اصلیت (asliyat)
• اصول (osul)
• اصولاً (osulan)
• اصیل (asil)

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: আসল (aśol)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: असल (asal)

  Urdu: اَصْل (asl)

• → Kazakh: асыл (asyl)
• → Malayalam: അസൽ (asal)
• → Punjabi: ਅਸਲ (asal)
• → Tamil: அசல் (acal)
• → Uyghur: ئەسل (esl)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “اصل”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian اصل (asl), from Arabic أَصْل (ʔaṣl).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əs.(ə)l/

Adjective

اصل • (asl) (Hindi spelling असल)

1. fundamental, basic
2. radical
3. original, genuine
4. pure, real

Noun

اصل • (asl) f (Hindi spelling असल)

1. bottom
2. foundation, base
3. origin, source
4. element
5. essence
6. principle
7. reality
8. fact
9. truth, true
10. hypostasis, germ, lineage, quid, root, rudiment
11. stock

Related terms

• اصلی (aslī)
• اصل میں (asl mẽ)
• دراصل (dar-asl)
• اصلاً (aslan)
• اصالت (asālat)
• اصالتاً (asālatan)
• اصلیت (asliyat)
• اصول (usūl)
• اصیل (asīl)