متقال

Persian

Alternative forms

متقالی (mitqālī / metġâli), مثقالی (misqālī / mesġâli)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِثْقَال (miṯqāl). Doublet of (misqāl / mesġâl, “mithqal”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /mit.ˈqaːl/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɪt̪.qɑ́ːl]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɪt̪.qɑ́ːl]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mit̪.qɔ́ːl̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [met̪ʰ.ɢɒ́ːl̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mit̪.qɔ́l]

Readings
Classical reading^?	mitqāl
Dari reading^?	mitqāl
Iranian reading^?	metġâl
Tajik reading^?	mitqol

Noun

متقال • (mitqāl / metġâl) (Tajik spelling митқол)

(textiles) calico (A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton)

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: mitqal
→ Chagatai: مثقالی (ms̱qāly /⁠misqālī⁠/), موتقال (mwtqāl /⁠mutqal⁠/), موتکال (mwtkāl /⁠mütkäl⁠/)
- Uzbek: misqoli
→ Russian: миткаль (mitkalʹ) (via Turkic)
- → Romanian: mitcal
- → Ukrainian: міткаль (mitkalʹ)
→ Turkmen: mütgel

Further reading

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “متقال”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.
Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “متقال”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim