کاکل

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Khalaj

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Noun

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کاکُل (ambur) (definite accusative کاکُلوُ, plural کاکُللار)

  1. Arabic spelling of kâkul (head of hair)

Declension

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Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle Mongol [script needed] (kekül).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? kākul
Dari reading? kākul
Iranian reading? kâkol
Tajik reading? kokul

Noun

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کاکل (kâkol) (plural کاکل‌ها (kâkol-hâ))

  1. lock, forelock
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 74:
      بحق کاکل شوخت که افسر حسن است
      بحق لوح جبینت که جان ماست مگر
      ba-haqq-i kākul-i šōxat ki afsar-i husn ast
      ba-haqq-i lawh-i jabīnat ki jān-i mā-st magar
      [I swear] by the truth of your impertinent forelocks that are the diadem of beauty,
      [I swear] by the truth of the table of your brow which is, perchance, my life-essence.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. topknot
  3. crest

Descendants

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