# أول
## Arabic
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔaw.wal/
* Adjective:(file)

#### Adjective

أَوَّل • (ʔawwal) (feminine أُولَى (ʔūlā), masculine plural أَوَّلُون (ʔawwalūn) or أَوَائِل (ʔawāʔil) or أَوَالٍ (ʔawālin), feminine plural أُولَيَات (ʔūlayāt) or أُوَل (ʔuwal))
* first
    Antonym: آخِر (ʔāḵir)

##### Declension
#### Noun

أَوَّل • (ʔawwal) m (plural أَوَائِل (ʔawāʔil) or أَوَالٍ (ʔawālin))
* first part, beginning
    قَرَأْتُ أَوَّلَ الْكِتَابِ. ― qaraʔtu ʔawwala l-kitābi. ― I read the beginning of the book.
    مَا لَهُ أَوَّلٌ وَلَا آخِرٌ.mā lahu ʔawwalun walā ʔāḵirun.It has neither a beginning nor an end.

##### Declension
#### Derived terms

* أَسَاطِير الْأَوَّلِينَ (ʔasāṭīr al-ʔawwalīna)

#### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: أول (ʔawwil)
* Gulf Arabic: اول (awwal)
* → Domari: awwal
* → Malay: awal
** → Ternate: awal
* → Classical Persian: اَوَّل (awwal)
** Dari: اَوَّل (awwal)
** Iranian Persian: اَوَّل (avval)
** Tajik: аввал (avval)
** → Bengali: আউয়াল (aual)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: अव्वल (avval)
    Urdu: اَوَّل (avval)
** → Khalaj: əvvəl
* → Old Anatolian Turkish: أَوَّل ('ävväl)
** Azerbaijani: əvvəl
** Gagauz: evel
** Ottoman Turkish: اول (evvel)
*** Turkish: evvel
*** → Armenian: ավալ (aval)
* → Rohingya: áwal
* → Uyghur: ئاۋۋال (awwal)
* → Uzbek: avval
* → Kazakh: әуелгі (äuelgı)

#### References

* Ibrahim Al-Shamsan (2024 August 23) “يجيء أوَّل مصروفًا وغير مصروف”, in Al-Jazirah‎, retrieved 2024-08-23

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Semitic *ʔil-, otherwise أَيْل (ʔayl), إِيل (ʔīl), إِلّ (ʔill), the most important god in the paganic pantheon—equivalent to the Sun, after which in the Western world the Sunday is named, in others. Origin from “first” above is unlikely since all other pagan weekday names are named after planets and thus indirectly gods and the other Semitic languages there employ *ʔaḥad-, which would have been retained. Lastly the Banu Bakr and Taghlib tribes actually worshiped a deity called أَوَال (ʔawāl) or أُوَال (ʔuwāl).

#### Proper noun

أَوْل or أَوَّل • (ʔawl or ʔawwal) m
* (obsolete) Sunday

##### Coordinate terms

* days of the week (pre-Islamic): أَيَّامُ ٱلْأُسْبُوعِ فِي مَا قَبْلَ ٱلْإِسْلَام (ʔayyāmu l-ʔusbūʕi fī mā qabla l-ʔislām) (appendix): أَوْل (ʔawl)~أَوَّل (ʔawwal) · أَهْوَن (ʔahwan)~أَوْهَد (ʔawhad)~أَهْوَد (ʔahwad) · جُبَار (jubār) · دُبَار (dubār) · مُؤْنِس (muʔnis) · عَرُوبَة (ʕarūba) · شِيَار (šiyār)

#### References

* Fischer, August (1896) “Die altarabischen Namen der sieben Wochentage”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 50, page 224
* Hommel, Fritz (1893) Süd-Arabische Chrestomathie. Minäo-sabäische Grammatik. – Bibliographie. – Minäische Inschriften nebst Glossar‎ (in German), München: G. Franz’sche Hofbuchhandlung, page 57
* Rotter, Gernot (1993) “Der dies veneris im vorislamischen Mekka, eine neue Deutung des Namens „Europa“ und eine Erklärung für kobar = Venus”, in Der Islam‎ (in German), volume 70, number 1, →DOI, pages 116–118
* Wellhausen, Julius (1897) Reste arabischen Heidentumes‎ (in German), Berlin: Georg Reimer, page 64
* Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy (a. 1229) Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, editor, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān]‎ (in Arabic), volume 1, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1866, page 395

### Etymology 3

Causative to آلَ (ʔāla, “to return”), semantically like German zurückführen, and parallelling Arabic عَبَّرَ (ʕabbara, “to get across”).

#### Verb

أَوَّلَ • (ʔawwala) II (non-past يُؤَوِّلُ (yuʔawwilu), verbal noun تَأْوِيل (taʔwīl))
* (obsolete) to lead back; to bid to return
* to interpret, to explain
    Synonym: تَأَوَّلَ (taʔawwala)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 4
#### Verb

أُولَ • (ʔūla) (form I) /ʔuː.la/
* first-person singular non-past passive jussive of وَلِيَ (waliya)

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

أول (form IV)
* أُولِ (ʔūli) /ʔuː.li/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of أَوْلَى (ʔawlā)
* أُولَ (ʔūla) /ʔuː.la/: first-person singular non-past passive jussive of أَوْلَى (ʔawlā)
* أَوْلِ (ʔawli) /ʔaw.li/: second-person masculine singular imperative of أَوْلَى (ʔawlā)

## Egyptian Arabic
### Alternative forms

* اول

### Etymology

From Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔæˈwːɪl/

### Adjective

أول • (ʔawwil) (feminine أولى (ʔūla), masculine plural أوائل (ʔawāʔil))
* first
    Synonym: أولانى

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal).

### Pronunciation

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### Adjective

أول • (ʔawwal) (feminine أولى (ʔūla))
* first
    Antonym: آخِر (ʔāḵir)

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔaw.wal/

### Adjective

أول • (ʔawwal) (feminine أولى (ʔūla) or أولة (ʔawwla), common plural أوائل (ʔawāʔil), masculine plural أولين (ʔawwlīn), feminine plural أولات (ʔawwlāt))
* first

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔaw.wal/, [ˈʔaw.wal]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

### Adjective

أول • (ʔawwal) (feminine أولى (ʔūla), common plural أوائل (ʔawāʔel) or أولى (ʔuwala))
* first
    Antonym: آخر (ʔāḵer)
    كيف كان أوّل يوم مدرسة؟ ― kīf kān ʔawwal yōm madrase ― How was the first day of school?
* (+ ما) as soon as

#### Usage notes

* Ordinal numbers can function either as regular adjectives, following the noun (المرّة الأولى (il-marra l-ʔūla, “the first time”)), or as elative adjectives, initiating a definite phrase (أوّل مرّة (ʔawwal marra, “the first time”)); the latter is more versatile and is far more common.

#### Derived terms

* أوّلا (ʔawwalan, “firstly, first of all”)

### Noun

أول • (ʔawwal) m
* beginning, start
    Synonym: بداية (bidāye)
    Antonyms: آخر (ʔāḵer), نهاية (nihāye)