# شال
## Arabic
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

شَالَ • (šāla) I (non-past يَشُولُ (yašūlu), verbal noun شَوْل (šawl))
* to rise, to become elevated
* to raise, to elevate, to lift
** 2008, أُحَيحة بن الجُلاح الأوسيّ, الشُّعراء الجاهليون الأوائل : تح: عادل الفريجات, بيروت: المشرق, page 451:تَأَبَّرِي مِنْ حَنَذٍ فَشُولِيtaʔabbarī min ḥanaḏin fašūlī(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1987, بَيْهس بن هلال الفَزاريّ, شعر قبيلة ذبيان : تح: سلامة السويدي, الدوحة: جامعة قطر, page 284:إِذْ شَالَتِ الحَرْبُ غَرِيمَ أَمْرِيʔiḏ šālati l-ḥarbu ḡarīma ʔamrī(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Persian شال (šâl).

#### Noun

شَال • (šāl) m (plural شَالَات (šālāt) or شِيلَان (šīlān))
* shawl, scarf, fichu

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

From Sahidic Coptic ϫⲏⲗ (čēl, “a fish”), also borrowed as قِيل (gīl) from Bohairic Coptic ⲕⲏⲗ (kēl).

#### Noun

شَال • (šāl) m
* certain fishes
** Synodontis spp.
** Silurus spp.
** Lycodontis syn. Gymnothorax spp.

##### Declension
### References

* Bishai, Wilson B. (1964) “Coptic Lexical Influence on Egyptian Arabic”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, volume 23, number 1, →DOI, page 41b
* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes‎ (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, page 244
* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “شال”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 805
* Freytag, Georg (1833) “شال”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 467
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “شال”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1621–1622
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شال”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 625
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شال”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 685

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic أَشَالَ (ʔašāla, “to raise”), form IV causative of شَالَ (šāla, “to rise”). Reanalyzed as ش ي ل (š y l).

### Verb

شال • (šāl) I (verbal noun شيل (šēl), active participle شايل (šāyil), passive participle متشال (mitšāl))
* to carry, to lift
* to remove
* (school, informal) to fail a subject

#### Conjugation

$^1$ The future tense can be prefixed with either هـ (ha-) or حـ (ḥa-) depending on the speaker.

## Gulf Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic أَشَالَ (ʔašāla, “to raise”), form IV causative of شَالَ (šāla, “to rise”), from the root ش و ل (š w l).

#### Pronunciation

* (Kuwait) IPA: /ʃɑl/

#### Verb

شال • (ʃal) (present يِشِيل (ɪʃil), verbal noun شيلة (ʃelə))
* to remove
    شيل الببسي من الصفرة ― Remove the Pepsi/soft drink from the tablecloth
* to lift
    تشيل حديد ولا كأنما! ― She lifts weight as if (it is nothing)!
* to carry
    يا حلات منظر الأهل وُهُم شايلين عيالهمHow beautiful is the scene of parents carrying their children
* (figuratively, by extension) to carry responsibility
    هالبنية بروحها شايلة بيتهم بكبرهThis girl alone is carrying (the responsibility of) her house(hold) in its entirety
    مو قادر يشيل روحه ويقولي بيتزوج!(He) cannot carry (the responsibility of) himself and he is telling me he wants to get married!

### Etymology 2

From Persian شال (šâl).

#### Pronunciation

* (Kuwait) IPA: /ʃɑl/

#### Noun

شال • (ʃal) m (plural شالات (ʃalat))
* scarf

#### See also

* شيلة (ʃelə, “a special type of headscarf”)
* شيلة (ʃelə, “Psalm or short song”)

## Hijazi Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaːl/

### Etymology 1

From Arabic أَشَالَ (ʔašāla).

#### Verb

شال • (šāl) I (non-past يشيل (yišīl))
* to carry (to transport by lifting)
* to remove
* to lift

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Persian شال (šâl).

#### Noun

شال • (šāl) m (plural شيلان (šīlān))
* scarf

## Kashmiri
### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgāla).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaːl/

### Noun

شال • (śāl) m (Devanagari शाल)
* jackal

## Mazanderani
### Noun

شال (šâl)
* jackal

## North Levantine Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic أَشَالَ (ʔašāla, “to raise”), form IV causative of شَالَ (šāla, “to rise”), from the root ش و ل (š w l).

#### Verb

شال • (šāl) (imperfect يشيل (yšīl))
* to remove, to take off, away
    ما فيي شيل الغطا عن هاي القنينة.mā fiyyi šīl il-ḡaṭa ʿan hay il-ʾannīne.I can't get the lid off this bottle.
    شيل عينيك عن غير نسوان. ― šīl ʿaynayk ʿan ḡayr niswān. ― Take your eyes off other women.
* (colloquial, Lebanon) to be down, to be up for (used either alone or governing a subjunctive-verb phrase)
    مولعينها بطرابلس، بتشيلي ننزل؟ — ايه بشيلmwallʿīna b-ṭrāblus, bitšīli ninzal? — ʾē bšīlThey're going wild in Tripoli, you want to head down? — Yeah, I'm down to.

### Etymology 2

From Persian شال (šâl).

#### Noun

شال • (šāl, šēl) m (plural شيلان (šīlān))
* scarf

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شال (šāl).

### Noun

شال • (şal)
* shawl
* scarf

#### Descendants

* Turkish: şal
* → Albanian: shall
* → Bulgarian: шал (šal)
* → Macedonian: шал (šal)
* → Romanian: sal, șal
* → Serbo-Croatian: šȁl
* → Slovene: šȃl

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Indo-Aryan. Compare Hindi दुशाला (duśālā), from Sanskrit शाटी (śāṭī), feminine of शाट (śāṭa, “clothing”). Sometimes said to be from or influenced by Chāliāt, a Persian pronunciation of Chaliyam in India, supposedly where they were first made.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʃɑːl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃɑːl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃɑːl]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʃɑːl]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʃɔːl̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʃɒːl̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʃɔl]

### Noun

شال • (šâl) (plural شال‌ها (šâl-hâ))
* shawl
* scarf

#### Derived terms

* شال‌گردن (šâl-gardan)

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: شَال (šāl)
* → Azerbaijani: şal
* → Bashkir: шәл (şəl)
* → Czech: šál
* → Danish: sjal
* → Dutch: sjaal
** Afrikaans: sjaal
* → English: shawl
** → Japanese: ショール (shōru)
** → Korean: 숄 (syol)
* → Finnish: šaali
* → French: châle
** → Catalan: xal
** → Franco-Provençal: ch·âle
** → Italian: scialle
*** → Greek: σάλι (sáli)
** → Polish: szal
** → Spanish: chal
* → Georgian: შალი (šali)
* → German: Schal
* → Gujarati: શાલ (śāl)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: शाल (śāl)
    Urdu: شال (śāl)
* → Hungarian: sál
* → Indonesian: syal
* → Kannada: ಶಾಲು (śālu)
* → Marathi: शाल (śāl)
* → Middle Armenian: շալ (šal)
** Armenian: շալ (šal)
* → Ottoman Turkish: شال (şal)
** Turkish: şal
** → Albanian: shall
** → Bulgarian: шал (šal)
** → Macedonian: шал (šal)
** → Romanian: sal, șal
** → Serbo-Croatian: šȁl
** → Slovene: šȃl
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ਾਲ (śāl)
    Shahmukhi script: شال (śāl)
* → Russian: шаль (šalʹ)
** → Kazakh: шәлі (şälı)
* → Slovak: šál
* → Swedish: sjal
* → Uzbek: shol
* → Yiddish: שאַל (shal)

### References

* ↑ “shawl”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
* ↑ https://www.thefreedictionary.com/shawl
* ↑ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “شال”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
* ↑ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
* ↑ Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1971.

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic شَالَ (šāla).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaːl/, [ʃæːl]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Verb

شال • (šāl) I (present بشيل (bišīl))
* to remove, to take out
    Synonyms: قام (ʔām), خلع (ḵalaʕ)

#### Conjugation
## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شال (šāl). Doublet of سَاڑِی (sāṛī). Compare Punjabi ਸ਼ਾਲ (śāl) / شال (śāl), Gujarati શાલ (śāl), Marathi शाल (śāl), Kannada ಶಾಲು (śālu), Telugu శాలువ (śāluva).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ʃɑːl/
* Rhymes: -ɑːl
* Hyphenation: شال

### Noun

شال • (śāl) f (Hindi spelling शाल)
* shawl
* scarf

### References

* ↑ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śāṭa$^1$”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

### Further reading

* “شال”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شال”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.