جولا

Persian

Regional synonyms of "spider"
Dari جولا
Iranian Persian عنکبوت
Tajik анкабӯт, тортанак

Alternative forms

  • جولاه (jōlāh / julâh) (in standard Dari)
  • جوله (jōla / jule), جولاهه (jōlāha / julâhe), جولاگک (jōlagak / julagak), جلاه (julāh / jolâh), جولاهک (jōlāhak / julâhak) (dialectal or historical)

Etymology

Uncertain. Likely a back-formation from جولاهک (jōlāhak / julâhak), already in Middle Persian, as seen in Arabic جُلَاهِق (julāhiq). Likely from some descendant of Sanskrit कौलिक (kaulika, “weaver”).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? jōlā
Dari reading? jōlā

Noun

جولا • (jōlā / julâ) (plural جولاها (jōlā-hā / julâ-hâ), Tajik spelling ҷӯло)

  1. (chiefly Dari; elsewhere dialectal) spider
  2. (obsolete) weaver

Descendants

  • → Ushojo: جولا (jōlā)
from the variant جولاهک
  • → Middle Armenian: ջուլհակ (ǰulhak), ջուլուհակ (ǰuluhak)
    • Armenian: ջուլհակ (ǰulhak), ջուլահակ (ǰulahak) — obsolete

References

  1. ^ Müller, Friedrich (1894) “Pahlawi und neupersische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 8, page 192
  2. ^ Vullers, Johann August (1855) “جولاه”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 541a
  3. ^ Vullers, Johann August (1855) “چولاه”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎[2] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 602a

Further reading

Ushojo

Etymology

From Dari جولا (jōlā).

Noun

جولا (jōlā)

  1. spider
    Synonym: گھنگاپور (ghaṅgāpōr)
  2. cotton gin
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