English

The aul or village of Gimry, now in the Republic of Dagestan, where Imam Shamil (1797–1871), the third Imam of Dagestan, was born. It was photographed between 1905 and 1915 by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, a pioneer of early colour photography of Russia.

Alternative forms

• auol

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːʊl/

Noun

aul ‎(plural auls)

1. A village encampment in the Caucasus, Central Asia or the Southern Urals.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, ISBN 978-0-670-00374-7:

     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.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

aul ‎(plural auls)

1. Obsolete spelling of awl.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Exodus 21:6:

     […] and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul […]

Anagrams

• ALU
• Lua
• ULA

Cimbrian

Noun

aul m ‎(plural [please provide])

1. tawny owl

Synonyms

• aubo

References

• “aul” in Umberto Martello Martalar, Alfonso Bellotto, Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Setti Communi vicentini, 1st edition, 1974.

Yola

Etymology

From Old English eall ‎(“all, every, entire, whole, universal”), from Proto-Germanic *allaz, *alnaz ‎(“all, whole, every”), from Proto-Indo-European *al- ‎(“all”).

Adverb

aul

1. all

Determiner

aul

1. all