توله

توله • (transliteration needed) f

1. flute

Inherited from Middle Persian *tōlag, whence also Arabic طَوْلَق (ṭawlaq, “mallow”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

توله • (tôle)

1. whelp
2. mallow

• توله‌سگ (tule-sag)
• توله‌شیر (tule-šir)

Borrowed from Hindustani تولا (tola) / तोला (tolā). The weight corresponds to the weight of an Indian silver rupee during the whole Mughal Empire.

توله • (tôle)

1. Alternative form of تولا (tôlâ, “weight measure for especially silver and gold of about 11.6 grams”)

• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “توله”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 482b

Said by de Clercq to be from Classical Malay تولق (tolak) (cf. Modern Malay tolak).

• IPA^(key): [ˈto.la]

توله (Rumi tola)

1. (transitive) to stop
2. (transitive) to interrupt
3. (transitive) to decrease or reduce one's salary
4. (transitive) to break
5. (transitive) to cut

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh