چول

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čöl.

چول • (çöl) (plural چوللار)

1. desert

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چول (çöl)

• IPA^(key): /tʃoːl/

چول (čōl) m

1. desert, wasteland

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čöl (“steppe, desert”); cognate with Azerbaijani çöl, Bashkir сүл (sül), Kazakh шөл (şöl), Kyrgyz чөл (cöl), Tatar чүл (çül), Turkmen çöl, Uyghur چۆل (chöl) and Uzbek choʻl.

چول • (çöl)

1. desert, wasteland, an uninhabited and uncultivated tract of land

چول • (çöl)

1. uninhabited or uninhabitable, barren, waste

   Synonym: خراب (harab)

• Turkish: çöl
• → Armenian: չոլ (čʻol)
• → Iraqi Arabic: چول (čōl)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çöl1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1042
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “چول”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 192a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 481
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Desertum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 362
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چول”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 1683
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çöl”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739

From Persian جل (joll, “saddlecloth”).

• جل (cüll)

چول • (çul)

1. haircloth, horsehair, a cloth made of the hairs of a horse
2. saddlecloth, horsecloth, a rug or similar cloth used to cover a horse

   Synonyms: چاپراق (çaprak), خاشه (haşa)

• Turkish: çul
• → Armenian: չուլ (čʻul), ջուլ (ǰul), չո̈ւլ (čʻül), ջո̈ւլ (ǰül)
• → Bulgarian: чул (čul)
• → Greek: τσόλι (tsóli)
• → Macedonian: чул (čul)
• → Serbo-Croatian: čȕl / чу̏л

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çul1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1056
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 481
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Stragula”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[8], Vienna, column 1600
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چول”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, column 1683
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çul”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739

Inherited from Prakrit [script needed] (cāulā), and probably of Dravidian or Austroasiatic origin.^[1] Compare Urdu چاوَل (cāval), Sindhi چانور (cã̄uru, “grain of rice cleansed from the husk”), Sylheti ꠌꠣꠃꠟ (saul), Bengali চাল (cal), Assamese চাউল (saul), Odia ଚାଉଳ (cāuḷa), Rohingya soil. Related to Persian چلو (čelow), which was borrowed from an Indic language.^[2] Doublet of چاوَل (cāval).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔːɭᵊ/

چَوࣇ • (cauḷ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਚੌਲ਼)

1. rice

   اُبَّࣇْویں چَوࣇ ― ubbaḷveṉ cauḷ ― Boiled rice.

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “چول”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012), “چول”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press

• چَبَل (cabal)^[1] — Doabi
• چَگَل (cagal)^[2] — chiefly Jhangli, Shahpuri

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃə.ʋəlᵊ/

چَوَل • (caval) (indeclinable, Gurmukhi spelling ਚਵਲ) (slang, derogatory, of a person)

1. foolish, idiotic, stupid

   چَوَل زَنانی ― caval zanānī ― Stupid woman.

2. lowly, base

   چَوَل بَندَہ ― caval bandah ― Lowly man.

3. useless

   چَوَل مُنڈا ― caval muṇḍā ― Useless chap.

چَوَل • (caval) m or f by sense (Gurmukhi spelling ਚਵਲ) (slang, derogatory)

1. a fool, idiot, twit

   اوس چول نوں گڈی چلانی نہیں آندی۔

   os caval nūṉ gaḍḍī calāṇī nahīṉ āndī.

   That idiot doesn't know how to drive a car.

2. a lowly person

   Synonyms: کَھچّ (khacc), کَمِینَہ (kamīnah)

   عَجِیب چَوَل ― 'ajīb caval ― Absurd lowlife.

3. a useless person

   سَارے دے سَارے چَوَل ― sāre de sāre caval ― All of them losers.

چَوَل • (caval) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਚਵਲ) (slang, derogatory) (uncountable)

1. nonsense, rubbish, foolish talk

   Synonym: یَکَّڑ (yakkaṛ)

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “چوَل”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• “ਚਵਲ”, in Punjabipedia [ਪੰਜਾਬੀਪੀਡੀਆ] (in Punjabi), Patiala: Punjabi University, 2026

Borrowed from Chagatai چول (çöl).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃuːl/

چُول • (cūl) m (Hindi spelling चूल)

1. desert, barren land

• “چول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “چول”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.