aul

See also: Aul

English

WOTD – 20 January 2017

The aul or village of Gimry, now in the Republic of Dagestan, where Imam Shamil (1797–1871), the third Imam of Dagestan, was born. It was photographed between 1905 and 1915 by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, a pioneer of early colour photography of Russia.

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian ау́л (aúl), from West (Kypchak) Turkic awul, awïl; compare Karachay-Balkar ауул (awul), Bashkir ауыл (awïl), Kazakh ауыл (awıl) and Turkish ağıl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʊl/

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Noun

aul (plural auls)

1. A village encampment in the Caucasus, Central Asia or the Southern Urals.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN:

     His sorrel face, his long narrow eyes and dusty boots, where he goes on his travels and what really transpires inside the lonely hide tents Out There, among the auls, out in that wind, these are mysteries they don’t care to enter or touch.

   • 1993, Eduard M[artynovich] Dune; Diane P. Koenker and S[tephen] A[nthony] Smith, translators and editors, Notes of a Red Guard, Urbana; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 221:

     Bitter fighting took place for Gimry, the home both of Khadzhi-Murat and Shamil. A highway ran along here, which permitted us to bring up artillery and to subject the aul to preliminary bombardment. We did not fire at any specific target, but if even half of our thirteen hundred shells had landed there, there would have been only a heap of ruins in place of the aul.

   • 2011, Michael Khodarkovsky, “Journey through the Northeast Caucasus”, in Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 55:

     Crossing the large plateau, they passed the auls of Megeb and Chokh before reaching Gunib, a significant Avar settlement. […] The Avar auls were surrounded by a virtually uninterrupted circle of mountain ranges and occupied most of the plateaus between the tributaries of the Sulak River: Andi Koysu, Avar Koysu and Kara Koysu.

Alternative forms

• auol

Translations

village encampment

• Bashkir: ауыл (awïl)
• Chuvash: ял (jal)
• Crimean Tatar: avul
• Kalmyk: әәл (ääl)
• Kazakh: ауыл (kk) (awıl)
• Khakas: аал (aal)
• Kyrgyz: айыл (ky) (ayıl)
• Mongolian: айл (mn) (ajl)

• Nogai: авыл (avıl)
• Russian: ау́л (ru) m (aúl)
• Shor: аал (aal)
• Southern Altai: айыл (ayïl)
• Tatar: авыл (tt) (awıl)
• Turkmen: ail
• Tuvan: аал (aal)

Further reading

• aul on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːl/

  • Audio (UK)

    (file)

Noun

aul (plural auls)

1. Obsolete spelling of awl.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Exodus 21:6:

     […] and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul […]

Anagrams

• -ual, ALU, Lau, Lua, UAL, ULA, Ula, alu

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Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German iu(we)le, from Old High German ūwila, from Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (“owl”). Cognate with German Eule, Dutch uil, English owl, Icelandic ugla.

Noun

aul m

1. (Sette Comuni) tawny owl

   Dar aul khimmet ausar padarnacht.

   The owl comes out at night.

Synonyms

• aubo

References

• “aul” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

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Estonian

Noun

aul

1. adessive singular of au

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Kavalan

Noun

aul

1. a type of shark that does not attack people

Synonyms

• sibriwan

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Yola

Etymology

From Old English eall (“all, every, entire, whole, universal”), from Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all, whole, every”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“all”).

Adverb

aul

1. all

Determiner

aul

1. all