awal

awal

1. to work

Inherited from Malay awal, from Classical Malay awal (“early”), from Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈawal/ [ˈa.wal]

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• Rhymes: -awal
• Syllabification: a‧wal

awal (plural awal-awal)

1. beginning, start

   Synonyms: mula, wiwit

awal (comparative lebih awal, superlative paling awal)

1. beginning

   saldo awal ― beginning balance

2. (medicine) early

   Synonym: dini

• “awal”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Inherited from Proto-Berber *a-βwal.

• IPA^(key): /awal/

awal m (plural awalen, feminine equivalent tawalt)

1. speech

   Synonyms: lehdur, lhedra, ameslay, lmenṭeq

2. word
3. sentence
4. proverb, saying

   Synonyms: lemtel, tamɛayt

• Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal‎^[1], retrieved 2025
• Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France

Borrowed from Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal).

• IPA^(key): /ˈawal/ [ˈa.wal]
• Hyphenation: a‧wal

awal (Jawi spelling اول, plural awal-awal or awal²)

1. beginning, commencement, first

   Synonym: mula

awal (Jawi spelling اول, comparative lebih awal, superlative paling awal)

1. early

   Synonym: dini (Indonesia)

   Antonym: lewat

• > Indonesian: awal (inherited)
• → Tausug: awwal

• "awal" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

awal

1. (transitive) to replace something

• awalek

Borrowed from French aval.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.val/

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• Rhymes: -aval
• Syllabification: a‧wal

awal m inan

1. (finance, law) aval

• awal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit اَوَالْ (awal, “speech”), from Proto-Berber *a-βwal (“speech”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /awal/

awal m (plural iwaliwn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵡⴰⵍ, Arabic spelling آوال)

1. speech
2. word

   آوال يغ يغلي د يدمارن، ايغلي س يدرارن.

   awal iɣ iɣli d idmarn, iɣli s idrarn .

   When words leave your chest, they echo off the mountains.

3. language, dialect

   آوال ن سوس اياد. ― awal n sus ayad ― This is the Sous dialect.

4. voice

   اوكزغ آوال ن ڭماك. ― ukzɣ awal n gʷma-k. ― I recognized your brother's voice.

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 496a
• Marijn van Putten (2011), Nouns of the CVC and CC type in Berber (Thesis), The Netherlands: Leiden University, page 21

From Malay awal, from Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal).

• IPA^(key): [aˈwal]

awal

1. beginning

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

awal m

1. language

   مَايَمُوس أَوَال وَتَسَنَد هُولّن؟

   ma yămos awal wa tǝssânăd hullan?

   What is the language that you know a lot?