ئايال
Appearance
Uyghur
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Perso-Arabic | ئايال |
Latin | ayal |
Cyrillic | аял |
Etymology
[edit]From Arabic عِيَال (ʕiyāl) through Persian عیال. The semantic sense of “wife, woman” is not present in the original Arabic term and may be a Persian (or more likely Turkic) innovation.
Compare Azerbaijani əyal, Uzbek ayol.