tukul

English

Noun

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, page 136:
      The women were sitting in groups in front of their tukuls.

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay tukul (“hammer”).

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

Noun

tukul (first-person possessive tukulku, second-person possessive tukulmu, third-person possessive tukulnya)

  1. (rare) hammer
    Synonyms: martil, palu

Derived terms
  • ditukul
  • menukul
  • penukul
  • tukul besi
  • tukul kayu

Further reading

Sumerian

Romanization

tukul

  1. Romanization of 𒆪 (tukul)

Tausug

Noun

tukul

  1. hammer

Verb

tukul

  1. to hammer
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