# دال
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daːl/

### Noun

دَال • (dāl) f (plural دَالَات (dālāt))
* dalet; dal, name of the eighth letter of the Arabic alphabet (د (d)), representing the sound /d/

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: dal
* → Classical Persian: دَال (dāl)
** Iranian Persian: دال (dâl)
** Tajik: дол (dol)
* → Uzbek: dol

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *dal (“branch”); cognate with Azerbaijani dal, Kazakh тал (tal), Kyrgyz тал (tal), Tatar тал (tal), Turkmen tal, Uzbek tɔl and Yakut талах (talaq).

### Noun

دال • (dal)
* (botany) any ramification, such as a branch, bough, twig or spray
    Synonyms: بوداق (budak), شاخ (şah), غصن (ğasn)

#### Derived terms

* داللانمق (dallanmak, “to become a branch”)
* داللو (dallı, dallu, “branched”)
* داللوجه (dallica, “somewhat branched”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: dal
* → Armenian: տալ (tal)
* → Ladino: dal

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1082
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دال”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 217a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 562
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ramus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1433
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2007
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 883

## Pahari-Potwari
### Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀤𑀸𑀮𑀻 (dālī), from Sanskrit दाल (dāla), itself from दलति (dalati, “he splits”); see दॄ (dṝ, “to tear, divide, split”). Cognate with Marathi डाळ (ḍāḷ).

### Pronunciation

(phr) IPA: /d̪ɑːl/

### Noun

دال (dāl) f
* lentil, dal
* bean

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [dɑːl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ɑːl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ɑːl]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d̪ɑːl]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d̪ɔːl̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪ɒːl̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d̪ɔl]

### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian d'lmn (/⁠dālman⁠/, “eagle, lammergeyer”). Cognate with Southern Luri دال (dâl, “eagle”), from the same root.

#### Noun

دال • (dâl)
* (modern) vulture
    دال معمولی ― dâl-e ma'muli ― Eurasian griffon vulture
* (loosely) eagle, bird of prey
** mid-1300s, Khwājū-yi Kirmānī, “Ghazal 231”, in دیوان خواجوی کرمانی‎:چنان مرغ دلم در قیدت افتاد که کبکان دری در چنگ دالانčunān murğ-i dil-am dar qayd-at uftād ki kabkān-i darī dar čang-i dālānThe bird of my heart has fallen into your clutches Like the valley partridges in the eagles' claws.(Classical Persian transliteration)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Urdu دال / Hindi दाल (dāl), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀸𑀮𑀻 (dālī), from Sanskrit दाल (dāla), itself from दलति (dalati, “he splits”); see दॄ (dṝ, “to tear, divide, split”). Likely via Mughal Persian.

#### Noun

دال • (dāl)
* lentil, dal

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic دال (dāl).

#### Proper noun

دال • (dâl)
* name of the letter د

#### See also

* دال on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fa}$
* د (Persian letter)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀸𑀮𑀻 (dālī), from Sanskrit दाल (dāla), itself from दलति (dalati, “he splits”); see दॄ (dṝ, “to tear, divide, split”). Cognate with Marathi डाळ (ḍāḷ).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d̪ɑːl/

### Noun

دال • (dāl) f (Hindi spelling दाल)
* lentil, dal
* bean

## Ushojo
### Noun

دال (dāl)
* ash