لال

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈlaːl/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lɑːl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lɑːl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [lɑːl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [lɔːl̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [lɒːl̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [lɔl]

Readings
Classical reading?	lāl
Dari reading?	lāl
Iranian reading?	lâl
Tajik reading?	lol

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

لال • (lâl)

1. mute
2. speechless

Related terms

• لالی (lâli)

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: لال (lāl)

  > Turkish: lal (inherited)

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

Etymology 2

Of unknown origin.

Adjective

لال • (lâl)

1. red

   Synonyms: سرخ (sorx), قرمزی (qermezi)

Descendants

• → Bengali: লাল (lal)
• → Gujarati: લાલ (lāl)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: लाल (lāl)

  Urdu: لال (lāl)

  • → Nepali: लाल (lāl)
• → Odia: ଲାଲ (lāla), ନାଲି (nāli)
• → Punjabi: لال (lāl) / ਲਾਲ (lāl)
• → Sylheti: ꠟꠣꠟ (lal)

Noun

لال • (lâl)

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

Descendants

• → Arabic: لَعْل (laʕl)
  • → Azerbaijani: ləl
  • → Persian: لعل (la'l)
  • → Kazakh: лағыл (lağyl)
  • → Kyrgyz: лаал (laal)
  • → Tajik: лаъл (la'l)
  • → 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)

References

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

Punjabi

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /läːl/, [läːl(ə̆)]

Adjective

لال • (lāl) (Gurmukhi spelling ਲਾਲ)

1. red

See also

Colors in Punjabi · رَن٘گ (raṉg) (layout · text)

چِٹّا (ciṭṭā), بَگّا (baggā)		کاࣇا (kāḷā)
لال (lāl), رَتّا (rattā); سُوہا (sūhā)	مالٹا (mālṭā), نَارَنگِی (nārangī); بھُورا (bhūrā)	پِیلا (pīlā), کھَٹّا (khaṭṭā)
نِمبُو (nimbū), پِستا (pistā), اَنگُوری (angūrī)	ساوا (sāvā), ہَرا (harā)
آسمانی (āsmānī)	آسمانی (āsmānī)	نِیلا (nīlā)
جامنی (jāmnī), اُودا (ūdā)	بَینگی (baingī)	گُولابی (gūlābī)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَال (lāl).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /lɑːl/

• Audio (India):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːl

Adjective

لال • (lāl) (Hindi spelling लाल)

1. red

Proper noun

لال • (lāl) m or f by sense

1. a surname, Lal

Noun

لال • (lāl) m (Hindi spelling लाल)

1. red
2. darling
3. son, baby, infant

Declension

Declension of لال

	singular	plural
direct	لال (lāl)	لال (lāl)
oblique	لال (lāl)	لالوں (lālõ)
vocative	لال (lāl)	لالو (lālo)

Synonyms

• (red): اَحْمَر (ahmar), رَکَت (rakat)

See also

Colors in Urdu · رنگ (layout · text)

سادہ (sāda), سفید (safed), اُجّر (ujjar)	سلیٹی (sleṭī), چھائی (chāī), دھوسر (dhūsar), سرمئی (surmaī)	کالا (kālā), سانولا (sā̃vlā)
لال (lāl), سرخ (surx), راتا (rātā); مہرون (mahroon), سندوری (sindūrī) قرمزی (qirmizī)	اورنج (orenj), نارنگی (narangī), کیسری (kesrī), گیروا (geruā), بھگوا (bhagvā), زعفرانی (za'frānī); بھورا (bhūrā), کتھئی (katthaī), چوکلیٹی (cokleṭī), خاکی (xākī)	پیلا (pīlā), بسنتی (basantī), زرد (zard); گیہُواں (gehũā), بادامی (bādāmī)
لائم (lāim), انگوری (aṅgūrī)	ہرا (harā), سُگَّا (suggā), سبز (sabz)	پودین ہرا (pūdīn harā); گاڑھا ہرا (gāṛhā harā)
فیروزہ (fīroza)	لاجوردی (lājvardī)~لاژوردی (lāźvardī)	نیلا (nīlā)
بینگنی (baignī), اودا (ūdā)	رانی (rānī); جامنی (jāmnī~jāmunī)	گلابی (gulābī)

Further reading

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “لال”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1035
• Platts, John T. (1884), “لال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 946
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “لال”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 541
• “لال”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834), “لال”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1501
• “لال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Uyghur

Etymology

From Persian لال (lâl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑl/

Adjective

لال • (lal)

1. dumb, mute

Further reading

• 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