толь

Inherited from Written Oirat ᡐᡆᠯᡅ (toli), from Proto-Mongolic *toli. Cognate with Buryat толи (toli), Mongolian толь (tolʹ), etc.

Sense ‘dictionary’ was a semantic loan from Literary Chinese 鑑 (jiàn, “mirror; dictionary”) via Classical Mongolian ᠲᠣᠯᠢ (toli, “mirror; dictionary”).

• IPA^(key): /tolʲ/

толь • (tolʹ)

1. mirror
2. dictionary

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Classical Mongolian ᠲᠣᠯᠢ (toli), from Middle Mongol [Term?], from Proto-Mongolic *toli. Cognate with Khamnigan Mongol толи (toli), Buryat толи (toli), Kalmyk толь (tolʹ), Daur toly, East Yugur tooli, etc.

Classical Mongolian ᠲᠣᠯᠢ
ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ (toli bičig, “a dictionary”, literally “a mirror book”) was a semantic loan from Literary Chinese 鑑 (jiàn, “a mirror; a dictionary”), and also the equivalent of Manchu ᠪᡠᠯᡝᡴᡠ
ᠪᡳᡨᡥᡝ (buleku bithe, “a dictionary”, literally “a mirror book”).

• IPA^(key): /tʰɔ.li/
• (Khalkh, Mongolia) IPA^(key): [tʰœɮ]
• Hyphenation: толь

толь • (tolʹ); (hidden-n declension)

1. mirror
2. short for толь бичиг (tolʹ bičig, “dictionary”, endocentric compound)

   “Монгол хэлний зөв бичих дүрмийн журамласан толь” ― “Mongol xelnii zöv bičix dürmiin žuramlasan tolʹ” ― Mongolian Orthographic Dictionary

• “толь I”, “толь II”, “толь III”, “толь IV”, in Монгол хэлний их тайлбар толь [Dictionary of the Mongolian Language] (in Mongolian), Institute of Linguistics of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2016–present
• толь in Bolor tolʹ

• IPA^(key): [tolʲ]
• Rhymes: -olʲ

Borrowed from French tôle.

толь • (tolʹ) m inan (genitive то́ля, nominative plural то́ли, genitive plural то́лей)

1. tarpaper (roofing and waterproofing material made by impregnating roofing paper with coal tar or shale oil products)

• → Georgian: ტოლი (ṭoli)

толь • (tolʹ)

1. (obsolete) only, whether, so, such

   Synonyms: столь (stolʹ), насто́лько (nastólʹko)