# بغل
## Arabic
### Etymology

In view of the Sabaean Old South Arabian 𐩨𐩶𐩡 (bġl), attested once from the 1st century CE, Arabic has more likely borrowed thence and not from Ge'ez በቅል (bäḳl) as formerly claimed, but the Old South Arabian may be an Old Arabic loanword as well, mule breeding only introduced not long before from the North, thus an unknown-origin borrowing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baɣl/

### Noun

بَغْل • (baḡl) m (plural بِغَال (biḡāl) or أَبْغَال (ʔabḡāl), feminine بَغْلَة (baḡla))
* the offspring of a jack and a mare, a mule
    Coordinate term: نَغْل (naḡl, “hinny”)
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 16:8:وَخَلَقَ اللَّٰهُ الْخَيْلَ وَالْبِغَالَ وَالْحَمِيرَ لِتَرْكَبُوهَا وَزِينَةًwa-ḵalaqa llāhu l-ḵayla wa-l-biḡāla wa-l-ḥamīra li-tarkabū-hā wa-zīnatanAnd God created horses, mules, and asses for you to ride on and as an embellishment.

#### Descendants

* Maltese: bagħal
* → Harsusi: beġelēt
* → Mehri: baġal, baġlēt
* → Classical Mandaic: ࡁࡀࡂࡀࡋ (bagal)
* → Classical Syriac: ܒܲܓܠܵܐ (baḡlā)
* → Swahili: baghala

### References

* Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 82
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 110
* Hommel, Fritz (1879) Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen‎ (in German), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, pages 112–117
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “بغل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 146
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “بغل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 230
* Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 101
* Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2005) Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 77–78 Nr. 55
* Nöldeke, Theodor (1879) “Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen von Fritz Hommel. Leipzig 1879, J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung XX und 471 S. in Octav”, in Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen‎ (in German), page 1258
* Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 58
* Sima, Alexander (2000) Tiere, Pflanzen, Steine und Metalle in den altsüdarabischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 40–42

## Persian
### Etymology

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Looks like a possible derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰús (“arm”) or *bʰeh₂g- (“to divide, allot”). Is there any literature that discusses this word?”

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ba.ɣal]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bä.ɣäl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bä.ɣäl]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [bä.ɣäl]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bä.ɣäl̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [bæ.ɢæl̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bä.ʁäl]

### Noun

| Dari | بغل |
| Iranian Persian | بغل |
| Tajik | бағал |
بغل • (bağal)
* (Iran, Dari and Tajik) hug
* (Classical Persian, Tajik or obsolete) armpit
* (Tajik) lap

#### Derived terms

* بغل کردن (bağal kardan)
* زیر بغل (zêr-e/zir-e bağal)

#### Descendants

* → Hindi: बग़ल (baġal), बगल (bagal) — nuqtaless
** → Tamil: பகிலு (pakilu)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بغل (bağal).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /bə.ɣəl/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -əl

### Noun

بَغَل • (baġal) f (Hindi spelling बग़ल)
* armpit, oxter, axilla
* underarm
* the bosom (in relation to something which is held or guarded close to it)
* (figurative) on one side, aside, close by
* flank, margin
* (figurative) in between, within
* gusset of a garment's underarm

#### Declension

Declension of بغل :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | بَغَل (baġal) | بَغَلیں (baġalẽ) |
| oblique | بَغَل (baġal) | بَغَلوں (baġalõ) |
| vocative | بَغَل (baġal) | بَغَلو (baġalo) |

#### Derived terms

* بَغَل گَنْد (baġal-gand, “armpit odor”)
* بَغَل سُونْگھنا (baġal suñghnā, “to smell an armpit”)
* بَغَل بْچَّہ (baġal-buca, “the plump skin of the underarms”)
* بَغَل بَچَّہ (baġal-baca, “a coddled child”)
* بَغَل بنَانا (baġal banānā, “shaving/grooming ones armpits”)
* بَغَل گِیر (baġal-gīr, “embrace, hug”)
* بَغَل گَرْمانا (baġal garmānā, “embrace which leads to sexual intercourse”)
* بَغَل بَنْد (baġal-band, “rope tied up under the armpits”)

### References

* “بغل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.