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لال

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Persian

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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لال (lâl)

  1. mute
  2. speechless
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Descendants
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  • Ottoman Turkish: لال (lāl)
    > Turkish: lal (inherited)
  • Armenian: լալ (lal)
  • Azerbaijani: lal
  • Uyghur: لال (lal)
  • Uzbek: lol

Etymology 2

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Of unknown origin.

Adjective

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لال (lâl)

  1. red
    Synonyms: سرخ (sorx), قرمزی (qermezi)
Descendants
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Noun

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لال (lâl)

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

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

Punjabi

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Adjective

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لال (lāl) (Gurmukhi spelling ਲਾਲ)

  1. red

See also

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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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian لال (lāl). Compare Punjabi ਲਾਲ (lāl) / لال (lāl), Gujarati લાલ (lāl), Marathi लाल (lāl), Bengali লাল (lal).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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لال (lāl) (Hindi spelling लाल)

  1. red

Noun

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لال (lālm (Hindi spelling लाल)

  1. red color

Synonyms

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See also

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Colors in Urdu · رنگ (raṅg) (layout · text)
     سفید (safed), ابیض (abyaz)      سرمئی (sarmaī), خاکستری (xākistarī), دھوسر (dhūsar)      کالا (kālā), سیاہ (siyāh), اسود (aswad)
             سرخ (surx), لال (lāl), قرمزی (qarmazī), احمر (ahmar)              مالٹائی (mālṭāī), نارنجی (nāranjī), نارنگی (nārangī); بھورا (bhūrā), بادامی (bādāmī), خاکی (xākī), مٹیالا (maṭiālā)              پیلا (pīlā), زرد (zard), اصفر (asfar), بسنتی (basantī)
             پستہ (pistah), انگوری (aṅgūrī), دھانی (dhānī)              سبز (sabz), ہرا (harā)             
             فیروزی (ferozī)              آسمانی (āsmānī), نیلگوں (nīlgū̃), لاجوردی (lājvardī), آبی (ābī), آبگوں (ābgū̃)              نیلا (nīlā), ازرق (azraq)
             نیل (nīl), بنفشی (banafśī), بنفش (banafś)              جامنی (jāmnī), اودا (ūdā), ارغوانی (arġawānī), بیگنی (beganī), بینگنی (benganī), بینجنی (benjanī)              گلابی (gulābī), پیازی (pīāzī)

Uyghur

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Etymology

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From Persian لال (lâl).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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لال (lal)

  1. dumb, mute

Further reading

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  • 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