آلو

آلُو • (ʔālū)

1. hello (when answering the telephone)

آلو (form I)

1. آلُو (ʔālū) /ʔaː.luː/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of أَلَا (ʔalā)
2. آلُوَ (ʔāluwa) /ʔaː.lu.wa/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of أَلَا (ʔalā)

آلو (âlu) (definite accusative آلونوُ, plural آلولار)

1. Arabic spelling of âlu (“plum”)

A derivation from Proto-Turkic *yal- (“flame”).^[1][2]

• علو (alev)

آلو • (alev)

1. flame

   Synonym: یالین (yalın)

• Turkish: alev

From Persian آلو (âlu).

آلو • (alu)

1. plum

   Synonym: ارك (erük)

• زردآلو (zerdalu, “apricot”, literally “yellow plum”)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “علو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 857
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 190

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlwk' /⁠ālūg⁠/, “plum, prune”). Ultimately a Wanderwort of unknown origin. Compare Proto-Turkic *erük (“plum, apricot”, whence Turkish erik (“plum”)), Nepali आरु (āru, “plum”), Ashkun arú (“plum”).^[1]

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آلو • (âlu)

1. plum, prune

• → Azerbaijani: alı
• → Khalaj: âlu
• → Ottoman Turkish: آلو (âlû)

Borrowed from Hindi आलु (ālu), from Sanskrit आलु (ālu). Doublet of Dari کچالو (kačālū).

آلو • (âlu)

1. (dialectal, Kazerun) potato

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.luː/

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀆𑀮𑀼𑀕 (āluga), from Sanskrit आलुक (āluka, “elephant foot yam”). The word began to be used in the sense "potato" after the importation of potatoes to South Asia from the Americas by Europeans, displacing cultivation of the similar elephant foot yam.

آلُو • (ālū) m (Hindi spelling आलू or आलु)

1. potato

• → English: aloo
• → Pashto: الو (alu)

Borrowed from Classical Persian آلُو (ālū).

آلُو • (ālū) m (Hindi spelling आलू)

1. plum, prune

آلو (ālū)

1. came
2. return