شال

شَالَ • (šāla) I (non-past يَشُولُ (yašūlu), verbal noun شَوْل (šawl))

1. to rise, to become elevated
2. to raise, to elevate, to lift
   • 2008, أُحَيحة بن الجُلاح الأوسيّ, الشُّعراء الجاهليون الأوائل : تح: عادل الفريجات, بيروت: المشرق, page 451:

     تَأَبَّرِي مِنْ حَنَذٍ فَشُولِي

     taʔabbarī min ḥanaḏin fašūlī

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1987, بَيْهس بن هلال الفَزاريّ, شعر قبيلة ذبيان : تح: سلامة السويدي, الدوحة: جامعة قطر, page 284:

     إِذْ شَالَتِ الحَرْبُ غَرِيمَ أَمْرِي

     ʔiḏ šālati l-ḥarbu ḡarīma ʔamrī

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Persian شال (šâl).

شَال • (šāl) m (plural شَالَات (šālāt) or شِيلَان (šīlān))

1. shawl, scarf, fichu

From Sahidic Coptic ϫⲏⲗ (čēl, “a fish”), also borrowed as قِيل (gīl) from Bohairic Coptic ⲕⲏⲗ (kēl).

شَال • (šāl) m

1. certain fishes
   1. Synodontis spp.
   2. Silurus spp.
   3. Lycodontis syn. Gymnothorax spp.

• Bishai, Wilson B. (1964) “Coptic Lexical Influence on Egyptian Arabic”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, volume 23, number 1, →DOI, page 41b
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes‎^[1] (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, →DOI, page 244
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “شال”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 805
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “شال”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 467
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “شال”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1621–1622.
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شال”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 625
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شال”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 685

From Arabic أَشَالَ (ʔašāla, “to raise”), form IV causative of شَالَ (šāla, “to rise”). Reanalyzed as ش ي ل (š y l).

شال • (šāl) I (verbal noun شيل (šēl), active participle شايل (šāyil), passive participle متشال (mitšāl))

1. to carry, to lift
2. to remove
3. (school, informal) to fail a subject

From Arabic أَشَالَ (ʔašāla, “to raise”), form IV causative of شَالَ (šāla, “to rise”), from the root ش و ل (š w l).

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ʃɑl/

شال • (ʃal) (present يِشِيل (ɪʃil), verbal noun شيلة (ʃelə))

1. to remove

   شيل الببسي من الصفرة ― Remove the Pepsi/soft drink from the tablecloth

2. to lift

   تشيل حديد ولا كأنما! ― She lifts weight as if (it is nothing)!

3. to carry

   يا حلات منظر الأهل وُهُم شايلين عيالهم

   How beautiful is the scene of parents carrying their children

4. (figuratively, by extension) to carry responsibility

   هالبنية بروحها شايلة بيتهم بكبره

   This girl alone is carrying (the responsibility of) her house(hold) in its entirety

   مو قادر يشيل روحه ويقولي بيتزوج!

   (He) cannot carry (the responsibility of) himself and he is telling me he wants to get married!

From Persian شال (šâl).

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ʃɑl/

شال • (ʃal) m (plural شالات (ʃalat))

1. scarf

• شيلة (ʃelə, “a special type of headscarf”)
• شيلة (ʃelə, “Psalm or short song”)

• IPA^(key): /ʃaːl/

From Arabic أَشَالَ (ʔašāla).

شال • (šāl) I (non-past يشيل (yišīl))

1. to carry (to transport by lifting)
2. to remove
3. to lift

From Persian شال (šâl).

شال • (šāl) m (plural شيلان (šīlān))

1. scarf

Inherited from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgāla).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaːl/

شال • (śāl) m (Devanagari शाल)

1. jackal

شال (šâl)

1. jackal

From Arabic أَشَالَ (ʔašāla, “to raise”), form IV causative of شَالَ (šāla, “to rise”), from the root ش و ل (š w l).

شال • (šāl) (imperfect يشيل (yšīl))

1. to remove, to take off, away

   ما فيي شيل الغطا عن هاي القنينة.

   mā fiyyi šīl il-ḡaṭa ʿan hay il-ʾannīne.

   I can't get the lid off this bottle.

   شيل عينيك عن غير نسوان. ― šīl ʿaynayk ʿan ḡayr niswān. ― Take your eyes off other women.

2. (colloquial, Lebanon) to be down, to be up for (used either alone or governing a subjunctive-verb phrase)

   مولعينها بطرابلس، بتشيلي ننزل؟ — ايه بشيل

   mwallʿīna b-ṭrāblus, bitšīli ninzal? — ʾē bšīl

   They're going wild in Tripoli, you want to head down? — Yeah, I'm down to.

From Persian شال (šâl).

شال • (šāl, šēl) m (plural شيلان (šīlān))

1. scarf

Borrowed from Classical Persian شال (šāl).

شال • (şal)

1. shawl
2. scarf

• Turkish: şal
• → Albanian: shall
• → Bulgarian: шал (šal)
• → Macedonian: шал (šal)
• → Romanian: sal, șal
• → Serbo-Croatian: šȁl
• → Slovene: šȃl

Borrowed from Indo-Aryan. Compare Hindi दुशाला (duśālā), from Sanskrit शाटी (śāṭī), feminine of शाट (śāṭa, “clothing”).^[1][2] Sometimes said to be from or influenced by Chāliāt, a Persian pronunciation of Chaliyam in India, supposedly where they were first made.^[3][4][5]

Readings
Classical reading?	šāl
Dari reading?	šāl
Iranian reading?	šâl
Tajik reading?	šol

شال • (šâl) (plural شال‌ها)

1. shawl
2. scarf

• شال‌گردن (šâl-gardan)

From Arabic شَالَ (šāla).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaːl/, [ʃæːl]

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شال • (šāl) I (present بشيل (bišīl))

1. to remove, to take out

   Synonyms: قام (ʔām), خلع (ḵalaʕ)

Borrowed from Classical Persian شال (šāl). Doublet of سَاڑِی (sāṛī).^[1] Compare Punjabi ਸ਼ਾਲ (śāl) / شال (śāl), Gujarati શાલ (śāl), Marathi शाल (śāl), Kannada ಶಾಲು (śālu), Telugu శాలువ (śāluva).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃɑːl/
• Rhymes: -ɑːl
• Hyphenation: شال

شال • (śāl) f (Hindi spelling शाल)

1. shawl
2. scarf

• “شال”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شال”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.