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aul

/aʊl//əʊl/

aul noun: a village encampment in the Caucasus, Central Asia or the Southern Urals. Also the alternative form of auld.

aul: a village encampment in the Caucasus, Central Asia or the Southern Urals
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Noun

aul (plural auls)

  1. A village encampment in the Caucasus, Central Asia or the Southern Urals.
    • His sorrel face, his long narrow eyes and dusty boots, where he goes on his travels and what really transpires inside the lonely hide tents Out There, among the auls, out in that wind, these are mysteries they don’t care to enter or touch.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN
    • Bitter fighting took place for Gimry, the home both of Khadzhi-Murat and Shamil. A highway ran along here, which permitted us to bring up artillery and to subject the aul to preliminary bombardment. We did not fire at any specific target, but if even half of our thirteen hundred shells had landed...1993, Eduard M[artynovich] Dune; Diane P. Koenker and S[tephen] A[nthony] Smith, translators and editors, Notes of a Red Guard, Urbana; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 221

Proper noun capitalized: Aul

Aul (plural Auls)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

aul is also the alternative form of auld.

aul is also the obsolete spelling of awl.

Forms of aul

Noun
pluralauls
alternative formaoul
alternative formauol
Proper noun
pluralAuls

Origin of aul

Borrowed from Russian ау́л (aúl), from West (Kypchak) Turkic awul, awïl; compare Karachay-Balkar ауул (awul), Bashkir ауыл (awıl), Kazakh ауыл (awıl) and Turkish ağıl.

* As a north German surname, spelling variant of Ohl, related to Ulrich. * Also as a German surname, spelling variant of Ahl. * Also as a German surname, spelling variant of Auel, occupational surname for a potter, from a Middle High German borrowing of Latin olla (“pot, jar”).

Words that rhyme with aul

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Questions about aul

What does aul mean?
Aul means a village encampment in the Caucasus, Central Asia or the Southern Urals.
What part of speech is aul?
Aul can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce aul?
Aul is pronounced /aʊl/.
What is the plural of aul?
The plural of aul is auls.

Words near aul in the dictionary

  1. aukwardnesses
  2. Aukšt.
  3. Aukštaitian
  4. Aukštaitians
  5. Aukštaitija
  6. aul
  7. aula
  8. aula magna
  9. aulacid
  10. aulacids
  11. aulacigastrid

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