دوقلو

Persian

Alternative forms

• (nonstandard or rare): دوغلو (doġolu), دوقلی (doġoli), دُغُلو (doġolu)

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic. Compare Abyanehi دوقول (döqūl), Ashtiani دولغی (doloγī), Shushatri دغلی (doġolī).

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪o.ʁo.lúː]

Readings
Iranian reading?	doġolu

Noun

دوقلو • (doġolu)

1. (Iran) twin (two people born from the same uterus)

Derived terms

• ـقُلو (-ġolu)

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “دوقلو”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.