pul

From Persian پول (pul). Doublet of obole and obolus.

pul (plural puls or pul)

1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Afghan afghani.

• pul qua

• PLU, ULP, UPL, ulp

Borrowed from Classical Persian پول (pūl, “money”).

• IPA^(key): /pul/, [puɫ]

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pul (definite accusative pulu, plural pullar)

1. money

   pul qazanmaq ― to earn money

   pul xərcləmək ― to spend money

   pula pul demir ― s/he is rolling in money, s/he is stinking rich (literally, “s/he doesn't call money money”)

2. (zootomy) scales (in fishes)

   Synonyms: pulcuq, ağça

• pullu (“rich”, informal, grammatically ornative)
• pulsuz (“free of charge; poor”)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “փող”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

pul

1. peel

   balıq pulu = fish peel, fish scale.

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ˈpul]

pul

1. second-person singular imperative of poulit

pul

1. second-person singular imperative of půlit

pul

1. imperative of pule

• IPA^(key): /pʏl/

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Shortened from ampul. Compare German Pulle (“bottle”).

pul f (plural pullen, diminutive pulletje n)

1. tankard

• bierpul

• Berbice Creole Dutch: polo

Cognate with Central Franconian Pöll, Luxembourgish Pëll, both “pullet, young hen”. Plausibly an early borrowing from Latin pulli, plural of pullus; then a doublet of pullus. Alternatively from a birdcall.

pul f (plural pullen, diminutive pulletje n)

1. (usually diminutive) duckling, or, more broadly, any young bird

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pul

1. singular imperative of pulen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of pulen

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʊl]
• Hyphenation: pul

From English pooling, pool, from French poule.

pul (plural pul-pul)

1. pooling
2. group

pul (comparative lebih pul, superlative paling pul)

1. alternative form of pol

• “pul” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Vulgar Latin *per (“by; through”) + *lo (“the”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpul]

pul m sg (feminine pula, masculine plural puls, feminine plural pulas)

2. contraction of por l; by the; for the; through the; during the

   Tenemos qu'ir a la praia pul brano.

   We need to go to the beach during the summer.

   Eilha tubo qu'ir pul carreiron.

   She had to go through the straight path.

pul

1. imperative of pula

• Hyphenation: pul

pul m (plural pules)

1. pul (subdivision of the currency of Afghanistan)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پول (pul), from Persian پول (“money”).

pul n (plural puluri)

1. backgammon stone

From Ottoman Turkish پول (“small disc; scale; wafer, stamp”), possibly from Persian پول (pul, “coin”) and Ancient Greek ὀβολός (obolós).

pul (definite accusative pulu, plural pullar)

1. stamp
2. scale (an overlapping arrangement of many small and flat pieces, or a part or piece of it)
3. money

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pul”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 451
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 460

Inherited from Chagatai پول, from Classical Persian پول (pōl), from Middle Persian [Term?]. Compare Kazakh пұл (pūl), etc. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /pʊl/, [pʰʊ̈l]
• Hyphenation: pul

pul (plural pullar)

1. money

   Menga pul bering.

   Give me money.

pul (nominative plural puls)

1. boy

• poul

From Middle English polle.

• IPA^(key): /pʊl/

pul

1. the crown of the head

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 63