پول

See also: بول, تول, and تؤل

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian *pōl, perhaps a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀβολός (obolós).

Pronunciation

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

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰoːl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰoːl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰoːl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰʊːl̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰuːl̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰul], [pʰɵl]

Readings
Classical reading?	pōl
Dari reading?	pōl
Iranian reading?	pul
Tajik reading?	pul, pül

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	پَیسَه
Iranian Persian	پول
Tajik	пул, пӯл

پول • (pul or pôl) (plural پول‌ها (pul-hâ))

1. (chiefly Iran) money

   فعلا پول ندارم.

   fe'lan pul na-dâram.

   At the moment, I have no money.

2. coin
3. (archaic) a coin of inferior value

Derived terms

• بی پول (bi-pul)
• صندوق بین‌المللی پول (Sanduq-e Beyn-olmelali-ye Pul, “International Monetary Fund”)
• پول خرد (pul-e xord)
• پول پارو کردن (pul pâru kardan)
• پولدار (puldâr)
• پولکی (pulaki)
• پولی (puli)

 

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: pul
• → English: pul
• → Old East Slavic: пулъ (pulŭ, “a kind of Tatar coin”) (via a Turkic language)
  • Russian: пул (pul), пу́ло (púlo)
• → Old Georgian: ფოლი (poli)
  • Georgian: ფული (puli)
• → Kazakh: пұл (pūl)
• → Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پووڵ (pûll)

  Northern Kurdish: pûl

• → Old Armenian: փող (pʻoł)
  • Armenian: փող (pʻoġ)
• Ottoman Turkish: پول
  • Turkish: pul
  • → Macedonian: пул (pul)
• → Turkmen: pul
• → Uyghur: پۇل (pul)
• → Uzbek: pul
• → Yagnobi: пул (pul)

Urdu

Etymology 1

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑁄𑀮𑁆𑀮 (polla), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀧𑁄𑀮𑁆𑀮 (*polla).

Noun

پول • (pol) m (Hindi spelling पोल)

1. emptiness, meaninglessness
   1. an excuse

      Synonym: بہانہ

Derived terms

• پول پول (pol pol)
• پول کھلنا
• پول کھولنا
• پولدار

 

Etymology 2

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀤𑁄𑀮𑀻 (padolī), from Sanskrit प्रतोली (pratolī).

Noun

پول • (pol) m (Hindi spelling पोल)

1. gate, entrance (to a town)

References

• Platts, John T. (1884) “پول”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*pōḍa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pratōlī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press