چول

Chagatai

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čöl.

Noun

چول • (çöl) (plural چوللار)

1. desert

Iraqi Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چول (çöl)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃoːl/

Noun

چول (čōl) m

1. desert, wasteland

Ottoman Turkish

چول

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čöl (“steppe, desert”); cognate with Azerbaijani çöl, Bashkir сүл (sül), Kazakh шөл (şöl), Kyrgyz чөл (cöl), Tatar чүл (çül), Turkmen çöl, Uyghur چۆل (chöl) and Uzbek choʻl.

Noun

چول • (çöl)

1. desert, wasteland, an uninhabited and uncultivated tract of land

Adjective

چول • (çöl)

1. uninhabited or uninhabitable, barren, waste

   Synonym: خراب (harab)

Descendants

• Turkish: çöl
• → Armenian: չոլ (čʻol)
• → Iraqi Arabic: چول (čōl)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çöl1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1042
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “چول”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 192a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 481
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Desertum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 362
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چول”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 1683
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çöl”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739

Etymology 2

چول

From Persian جل (joll, “saddlecloth”).

Alternative forms

• جل (cüll)

Noun

چول • (çul)

1. haircloth, horsehair, a cloth made of the hairs of a horse
2. saddlecloth, horsecloth, a rug or similar cloth used to cover a horse

   Synonyms: چاپراق (çaprak), خاشه (haşa)

Derived terms

• چول طوتمز (çul tutmaz, “unsettled, fickle, shiftless”)
• چول چوال (çul çuval, “haircloth sack”)
• چوللاتمق (çullatmak, “to make or let be covered with a horsecloth”)
• چوللامق (çullamak, “to cover with a horsecloth”)
• چوللانمق (çullanmak, “to be covered with a horsecloth”)
• چوللو (çullu, “furnished with a horsecloth”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çul
• → Armenian: չուլ (čʻul), ջուլ (ǰul), չո̈ւլ (čʻül), ջո̈ւլ (ǰül)
• → Bulgarian: чул (čul)
• → Greek: τσόλι (tsóli)
• → Macedonian: чул (čul)
• → Serbo-Croatian: čȕl / чу̏л

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çul1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1056
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 481
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Stragula”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[8], Vienna, column 1600
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چول”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, column 1683
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çul”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739

Punjabi

Etymology 1

Inherited from Prakrit [script needed] (cāulā), and probably of Dravidian or Austroasiatic origin. Compare Urdu چاوَل (cāval), Sindhi چانور (cã̄uru, “grain of rice cleansed from the husk”), Sylheti ꠌꠣꠃꠟ (saul), Bengali চাল (cal), Assamese চাউল (saul), Odia ଚାଉଳ (cāuḷa), Rohingya soil. Related to Persian چلو (čelow), which was borrowed from an Indic language. Doublet of چاوَل (cāval).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔːɭᵊ/

Noun

چَوࣇ • (cauḷ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਚੌਲ਼)

1. rice

   اُبَّࣇْویں چَوࣇ ― ubbaḷveṉ cauḷ ― Boiled rice.

Declension

Declension of چول

	singular	plural
direct	چَوࣇ (cauḷ)	چَوࣇ (cauḷ)
oblique	چَوࣇ (cauḷ)	چَوࣇاں (cauḷāṉ)
vocative	چَوࣇا (cauḷā)	چَوࣇو (cauḷo)
ablative	چَوࣇوں (cauḷoṉ)	—
locative	چَوࣇے (cauḷe)	چَوࣇِیں (cauḷīṉ)
instrumental	چَوࣇوں (cauḷoṉ)	–

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “چول”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012), “چول”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• چَبَل (cabal) — Doabi
• چَگَل (cagal) — chiefly Jhangli, Shahpuri

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃə.ʋəlᵊ/

Adjective

چَوَل • (caval) (indeclinable, Gurmukhi spelling ਚਵਲ) (slang, derogatory, of a person)

1. foolish, idiotic, stupid

   چَوَل زَنانی ― caval zanānī ― Stupid woman.

2. lowly, base

   چَوَل بَندَہ ― caval bandah ― Lowly man.

3. useless

   چَوَل مُنڈا ― caval muṇḍā ― Useless chap.

Noun

چَوَل • (caval) m or f by sense (Gurmukhi spelling ਚਵਲ) (slang, derogatory)

1. a fool, idiot, twit

   اوس چول نوں گڈی چلانی نہیں آندی۔

   os caval nūṉ gaḍḍī calāṇī nahīṉ āndī.

   That idiot doesn't know how to drive a car.

2. a lowly person

   Synonyms: کَھچّ (khacc), کَمِینَہ (kamīnah)

   عَجِیب چَوَل ― 'ajīb caval ― Absurd lowlife.

3. a useless person

   سَارے دے سَارے چَوَل ― sāre de sāre caval ― All of them losers.

Declension

Declension of چول

	singular	plural
direct	چَوَل (caual)	چَوَل (caual)
oblique	چَوَل (caual)	چَوَلاں (caualāṉ)
vocative	چَوَلا (caualā)	چَوَلو (caualo)
ablative	چَوَلوں (caualoṉ)	—
locative	چَوَلے (cauale)	چَوَلِیں (caualīṉ)
instrumental	چَوَلوں (caualoṉ)	–

Declension of چول

	singular	plural
direct	چَوَل (caual)	چَوَلاں (caualāṉ)
oblique	چَوَل (caual)	چَوَلاں (caualāṉ)
vocative	چَوَلے (cauale)	چَوَلو (caualo)
ablative	چَوَلوں (caualoṉ)	—
locative	چَوَلی (caualī)	چَوَلِیں (caualīṉ)
instrumental	چَوَلے (cauale)	چَوَلِیں (caualīṉ)

Noun

چَوَل • (caval) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਚਵਲ) (slang, derogatory) (uncountable)

1. nonsense, rubbish, foolish talk

   Synonym: یَکَّڑ (yakkaṛ)

Declension

Declension of چول

	singular	plural
direct	چَوَل (caual)	چَوَلاں (caualāṉ)
oblique	چَوَل (caual)	چَوَلاں (caualāṉ)
vocative	چَوَلے (cauale)	چَوَلو (caualo)
ablative	چَوَلوں (caualoṉ)	—
locative	چَوَلی (caualī)	چَوَلِیں (caualīṉ)
instrumental	چَوَلے (cauale)	چَوَلِیں (caualīṉ)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “چوَل”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• “ਚਵਲ”, in Punjabipedia [ਪੰਜਾਬੀਪੀਡੀਆ] (in Punjabi), Patiala: Punjabi University, 2026

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Chagatai چول (çöl).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃuːl/

Noun

چُول • (cūl) m (Hindi spelling चूल)

1. desert, barren land

References

• “چول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “چول”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.