# آلو
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “French allô?”

#### Interjection

آلُو • (ʔālū)
* hello (when answering the telephone)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

آلو (form I)
* آلُو (ʔālū) /ʔaː.luː/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of أَلَا (ʔalā)
* آلُوَ (ʔāluwa) /ʔaː.lu.wa/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of أَلَا (ʔalā)

## Khalaj
### Noun

آلو (âlu) (definite accusative آلونوُ, plural آلولار)
* Arabic spelling of âlu (“plum”)

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

A derivation from Proto-Turkic *yal- (“flame”).

#### Alternative forms

* علو (alev)

#### Noun

آلو • (alev)
* flame
    Synonym: یالین (yalın)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: alev

### Etymology 2

From Persian آلو (âlu).

#### Noun

آلو • (alu)
* plum
    Synonym: ارك (erük)

##### Related terms

* زردآلو (zerdalu, “apricot”, literally “yellow plum”)

### Further reading

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “علو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 857
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 190

### References

* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*yal-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “alev”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

## Persian
### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlwk' /⁠ālūg⁠/, “plum, prune”). Ultimately a Wanderwort of unknown origin. Compare Proto-Turkic *erük (“plum, apricot”, whence Turkish erik (“plum”)), Nepali आरु (āru, “plum”), Ashkun arú (“plum”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔɑː.ˈluː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɑː.lúː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɑː.lúː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔɑː.lúː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔɔː.lú]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔɒː.lúː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔɔ.lú]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

#### Noun

| Dari | آلو |
| Iranian Persian | آلو |
| Tajik | олу |
آلو • (âlu)
* plum, prune

##### Derived terms

* آلوچه (âluče)
* آلوی بخارا (âlu-ye boxârâ)
* خرمالو (xormâlu)
* زردآلو (zard-âlu)
* شفتالو (šaft-âlu)

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: alı
* → Khalaj: âlu
* → Ottoman Turkish: آلو (âlû)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindi आलु (ālu), from Sanskrit आलु (ālu). Doublet of Dari کچالو (kačālū).

#### Noun

آلو • (âlu)
* (dialectal, Kazerun) potato

### References

* ↑ Rio dal Martello et al. (2023) “The Domestication and Dispersal of Large-Fruiting Prunus spp.: A Metadata Analysis of Archaeobotanical Material”, in Agronomy, volume 13, number 4, →DOI

## Urdu
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɑː.luː/

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀆𑀮𑀼𑀕 (āluga), from Sanskrit आलुक (āluka, “elephant foot yam”). The word began to be used in the sense "potato" after the importation of potatoes to South Asia from the Americas by Europeans, displacing cultivation of the similar elephant foot yam.

#### Noun

آلُو • (ālū) m (Hindi spelling आलू or आलु)
* potato

##### Declension

Declension of آلو :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | آلو (ālū) | آلو (ālū) |
| oblique | آلو (ālū) | آلووں (ālūō̃) |
| vocative | آلو (ālū) | آلوو (ālūō) |

##### Descendants

* → English: aloo
* → Pashto: الو (alu)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian آلُو (ālū).

#### Noun

آلُو • (ālū) m (Hindi spelling आलू)
* plum, prune

## Ushojo
### Verb

آلو (ālū)
* came
* return