झोल

Compare Bengali ঝোল (jhōl, “gravy”).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʱoːl/
• Hyphenation: झोल
• Rhymes: -oːl

झोल • (jhol) m (Urdu spelling جھول)

1. (of flesh) flaccidity, flabbiness, a wash of golden colour, gilding, bagginess, looseness, sagging or wrinkling of ill-fitting clothes, brood (of a bird), hatch, defect, flaw, weakness, litter, farrow (of dogs or pigs), offspring, lineage, soup, curry, gravy, broth
2. difference in uniformity of fitting in dress

• (broth): शोरबा (śorbā), सूप (sūp), ब्रॉथ (brŏth), रसा (rasā), यखनी f (yakhnī), यख़्नी f (yaxnī)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “झोल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “झोल”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.