xal

xal

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kalmyk Oirat.

Borrowed from French châle, from Persian شال.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈʃal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈt͡ʃal]

xal m (plural xals)

1. shawl

• “xal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “xal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “xal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “xal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

xal

1. sand

From Tibetan ཤེལ (shel).

• IPA^(key): /ɕal/

xal

1. mirror

• IPA^(key): /xɑːl/

xal f

1. (maternal) uncle
2. point, dot

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀸𑀤𑀺 (khādi), from Sanskrit खादति (khādati). Cognate with Hindi खाना (khānā), Marwari खाणौ (khāṇau), and Gujarati ખાવું (khāvũ).

xal

1. he/she/it eats
2. to eat

   E ćhave xan phaba.

   The children eat apples.

• → Hungarian: kajál
• → Romanian: hali
• → Russian: хавчик (xavčik)

• Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 40