هول

Arabic

Etymology

Root
ه و ل (h-w-l)

Verbal noun of هَالَ (hāla, to scare away, to frighten).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hawl/
  • Rhymes: -awl

Noun

هَوْل • (hawl) m (plural أَهْوَال (ʔahwāl) or هُؤُول (huʔūl))

  1. verbal noun of هَالَ (hāla) (form I)
  2. fright, terror, anything fearful

Declension

Descendants

  • Persian: ہول (howl)

References

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَوْل (hawl).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? hawl
Dari reading? hawl
Iranian reading? howl
Tajik reading? havl

Noun

هول • (howl)

  1. shock, terror
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume V, verse 3766:
      گردش چشمش مرا لشکر نمود / من ندانم گفت چون پر هول بود
      gardeš-e češm-eš ma-râ laškar namud / man na-dânam goft čon por-howl bud
      The rolling of his eyes seemed to me an army: I cannot describe how terrible [lit. full of terror] it was.
    • 1976, خسرو شاهانی, “عینک طبی”, in کور لعنتی:
      ولی از بس هول شده بودم چشم راستم هم دیگر کار نمی‌کرد.
      vali az bas howl šode budam češm-e râst-am ham digar kâr ne-mi-kard.
      But I had become so terrified that my right eye was also no longer working [properly].

Descendants

  • Punjabi: ਹੌਲهول (haul)
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