tukul

tukul (plural tukuls)

1. (often italicized) A cone-shaped mud hut, usually with a thatched roof, found in eastern and northeastern Africa
   • 1987, Tudor Parfitt, The Thirteenth Gate: Travels Among the Lost Tribes of Israel‎^[1], page 136:

     The women were sitting in groups in front of their tukuls.

• Ktulu, tulku

Inherited from Malay tukul (“hammer”), from Old Javanese tukul (“bending down, bowing the head; bent; absorbed, engrossed, diverted, oblivious of anything else, unsuspecting”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.kʊl/
• Rhymes: -kʊl, -ʊl, -l
• Hyphenation: tu‧kul

tukul (plural tukul-tukul)

1. (rare) hammer

   Synonyms: godam, martil, palu

• “tukul”, 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

tukul (Jawi spelling توکول, plural tukul-tukul or tukul²)

1. hammer

   Synonym: martil

• > Indonesian: tukul (inherited)
• → Tausug: tukul

Doublet of tuṅkul.

• IPA^(key): /t̪u.kul/
• Rhymes: -kul
• Hyphenation: tu‧kul

tukul

1. alternative form of tuṅkul

• >? Malay: tukul
  • > Indonesian: tukul (inherited)
  • → Tausug: tukul

tukul

1. romanization of 𒆪 (tukul)

tukul

1. hammer

tukul

1. to hammer