یول

See also: يؤل, يول, بول, پول, تول, and تؤل

Azerbaijani

Noun

یول

1. Arabic spelling of yol (“road”)

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Burushaski

Etymology

From a Turkic source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [joːl]

Noun

یول (yool)

1. year

   Synonyms: دݵن (den), سال (saal)

References

• Bechtholdt, Astrid (2025) “yool”, in Burushaski Hunza Dictionary (Webonary), Dallas, Texas, USA: SIL International, published 2017.

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Khalaj

Noun

یوْل (yôl) (definite accusative یوْلوُ, plural یوْللار)

1. Arabic spelling of yôl (“way”)

Declension

Declension of یول

	singular	plural
nominative	یول	یوللار
genitive	یولؽݧ	یوللارؽݧ
dative	یولقا	یوللارقا
definite accusative	یولؽ	یوللارؽ
locative	یولچا	یوللارچا
ablative	یولدا	یوللاردا
instrumental	یوللا	یوللارلا
equative	یولوارا	یوللاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yōl (“road”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰆𐰞 (yol), Azerbaijani yol, Bashkir юл (yul), Chuvash ҫул (śul), Kazakh жол (jol), Kyrgyz жол (jol), Turkmen ýōl, Uyghur يول (yol) and Uzbek yoʻl.

Noun

یول • (yol)

1. road, street, a way used for travelling between places

   Synonyms: راه (rah), سبیل (sebil), سمت (semt), طریق (tarik)

2. path, track, a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians

   Synonyms: راه (rah), سبیل (sebil), سمت (semt), طریق (tarik)

3. way, a manner or method of doing something; a mannerism

   Synonyms: راه (rah), طریق (tarik)

Derived terms

• آیاق یولی (ayak yolu, “water closet”)
• اوزون یول (uzun yol, “long journey”)
• اوغری یولی (oğrı yolu, “by-way”)
• دمیر یولی (demir yolu, “railway”)
• دیوان یولی (divan yolu, “the main street of a city”)
• سیدك یولی (sidik yolu, “urethra”)
• صو یولی (su yolu, “aqueduct”)
• پوسته یولی (posta yolu, “postroad”)
• یایا یولی (yaya yolu, “footpath, sidewalk”)
• یول آلمق (yol almak, “to gain velocity”)
• یول آچمق (yol açmak, “to open a road”)
• یول اورمق (yol urmak, “to hit the road”)
• یول شاشمق (yol şaşmak, “to take another direction”)
• یول صالمق (yol salmak, “to send off on a journey”)
• یول طوتمق (yol tutmak, “to take a path”)
• یول قومق (yol komak, “to prevent, detain”)
• یول ویرمك (yol virmek, “to give a passage”)
• یول یول (yol yol, “divided by various roads”)
• یولجه (yolca, “properly, in the right way”)
• یولجی (yolcu, “traveller, wayfarer”)
• یولداش (yoldaş, “fellow traveller; companion”)
• یولدن چیقارمق (yoldan çıkarmak, “to mislead”)
• یولسز (yolsuz, “roadless, trackless”)
• یوللامق (yollamak, “to send off”)
• یوللانمق (yollanmak, “to be furnished with roads”)
• یوللو (yollu, “furnished with roads”)
• یولنه گیرمك (yoluna girmek, “to get in order”)

Descendants

• Gagauz: yol
• Turkish: yol
• → Albanian: joll
• → Armenian: յոլ (yol)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: јо̏л

  Latin script: jȍl

• → Northern Kurdish: ol (“order, sect, dogma”)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yol1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5350
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یول”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 514b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1367
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Via”, 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 1750
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یول”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5630
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yol”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2218