پول

From Middle Persian *pōl, perhaps a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀβολός (obolós).^[1]

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پول • (pul or pôl) (plural پول‌ها)

1. (chiefly Iran) money

   فعلا پول ندارم.

   fe'lan pul na-dâram.

   At the moment, I have no money.

2. coin
3. (archaic) a coin of inferior value

• → Azerbaijani: pul
• → English: pul
• → Old East Slavic: пулъ (pulŭ, “a kind of Tatar coin”) (via a Turkic language)
  • Russian: пул (pul), пу́ло (púlo)
• → Old Georgian: ფოლი (poli)
  • Georgian: ფული (puli)
• → Kazakh: пұл (pūl)
• → Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پووڵ (pûll)

  Northern Kurdish: pûl

• → Old Armenian: փող (pʻoł)
  • Armenian: փող (pʻoġ)
• Ottoman Turkish: پول
  • Turkish: pul
  • → Greek: πούλι (poúli)
  • → Macedonian: пул (pul)
• → Turkmen: pul
• → Uyghur: پۇل (pul)
• → Uzbek: pul
• → Yagnobi: пул (pul)

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑁄𑀮𑁆𑀮 (polla), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀧𑁄𑀮𑁆𑀮 (*polla).

پول • (pol) m (Hindi spelling पोल)

1. emptiness, meaninglessness
   1. an excuse

      Synonym: بہانہ

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀤𑁄𑀮𑀻 (padolī), from Sanskrit प्रतोली (pratolī).

پول • (pol) m (Hindi spelling पोल)

1. gate, entrance (to a town)

• Platts, John T. (1884) “پول”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*pōḍa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pratōlī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press