اصل

See also: أصل, آصل, and أضل

Arabic

Verb

اِصْلِ • (iṣli) (form I) /isˤ.li/

  1. second-person masculine singular imperative of صَلَى (ṣalā)

Persian

Etymology

  • Borrowed from Arabic أَصْل (ʔaṣl).

    Pronunciation

     

    Readings
    Classical reading? asl
    Dari reading? asl
    Iranian reading? asl
    Tajik reading? asl

    Adjective

    اصل • (asl)

    1. genuine
    2. original

    Noun

    اصل • (asl) (plural اصول (osul), or اصل‌ها (asl-hâ))

    1. origin, source
    2. original (copy)
    3. principle, tenet, foundation

    Descendants

    • Bengali: আসল (aśol)
    • Hindustani:
      Hindi: असल (asal)
      Urdu: اَصْل (asl)
    • Kazakh: асыл (asyl)
    • Malayalam: അസൽ (asal)
    • Punjabi: ਅਸਲ (asal)
    • Tamil: அசல் (acal)
    • Uyghur: ئەسل (esl)

    Further reading

    • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “اصل”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

    Urdu

    Etymology

  • Borrowed from Classical Persian اَصْل (asl), borrowed from Arabic أَصْل (ʔaṣl).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    اصل • (asl) (Hindi spelling असल)

    1. fundamental, basic
    2. radical
    3. original, genuine
    4. pure, real

    Noun

    اصل • (aslf (Hindi spelling असल)

    1. bottom
    2. foundation, base
    3. origin, source
    4. element
    5. essence
    6. principle
    7. reality
    8. fact
    9. truth, true
    10. hypostasis, germ, lineage, quid, root, rudiment
    11. stock