سوال

سَوَّال • (sawwāl) pl

1. plural of سال (sāl)

From Arabic سُؤَال (suʔāl).

سوال • (sawál, suwál)

1. question

• جست (just)

سوال (suâl, sevâl)

1. forehead

سوال (sa'âl)

1. question

• سؤال هاکردن (sa'âl hâkerdan, “to ask, to question”)

• سؤال (su'al)

From Arabic سُؤَال (suʔāl).

سوال • (sual)

1. question
   • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎^[1], page 11:

     شمدی ، افندیلر ؛ مساعده بیورورسه‌كز ، سزه بر سؤال صوره‌یم.

     Şimdi, efendiler; müsaade buyurursanız, size bir su'al sorayım.

     Now, gentlemen, with your permission I will ask a question of you.

• Turkish: sual

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sual”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سؤال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1086
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1032

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَوَال (sawāl), variant form of سُؤَال (su'āl), from Arabic سُؤَال (suʔāl).

سَوال (savāl) m

1. question

See سُؤال.

• See سؤال for standard pronunciations.

سؤال • (so'âl or sawāl)

1. unhamzated form of سؤال
2. pronunciation spelling of سؤال, representing Kabuli Persian

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَوَال (sawāl), variant form of سُؤَال (su'āl), from Arabic سُؤَال (suʔāl). Compare Punjabi ਸਵਾਲ (savāl) / سوال (savāl).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.ʋɑːl/, /sə.wɑːl/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːl
• Hyphenation: سَ‧وال

سَوال • (savāl) m (formal plural سَوالات (savālāt), Hindi spelling सवाल)

1. question

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “سوال”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 789
• “سوال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سؤَال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 692
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سوال”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 389
• “سوال”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834) “سوال”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1114

سوال (svāl)

1. to request
2. to address

سوال (svāl)

1. plea, supplication, solicitation, petition, appeal, request