سوال

See also: سؤال and شوال

Arabic

Noun

سَوَّال • (sawwāl) pl

1. plural of سال (sāl)

Baluchi

Etymology

From Arabic سُؤَال (suʔāl).

Noun

سوال • (sawál, suwál)

1. question

Synonyms

• جست (just)

Mazanderani

Noun

سوال (suâl, sevâl)

1. forehead

Noun

سوال (sa'âl)

1. question

Derived terms

• سؤال هاکردن (sa'âl hâkerdan, “to ask, to question”)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• سؤال (su'al)

Etymology

From Arabic سُؤَال (suʔāl).

Noun

سوال • (sual)

1. question
   • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎^[1], page 11:

     شمدی ، افندیلر ؛ مساعده بیورورسه‌كز ، سزه بر سؤال صوره‌یم.

     Şimdi, efendiler; müsaade buyurursanız, size bir su'al sorayım.

     Now, gentlemen, with your permission I will ask a question of you.

Descendants

• Turkish: sual

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sual”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سؤال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1086
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1032

Persian

Etymology

See سُؤال.

Pronunciation

• (Dari, nonstandard)
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sʊ.wɑ́ːl], [sä.wɑ́ːl]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.vɔ́l]

Readings
Dari reading?	suwāl, sawāl
Tajik reading?	savol

• See سؤال for standard pronunciations.

Noun

سؤال or سوال • (so'âl or sawāl)

1. unhamzated form of سؤال
2. pronunciation spelling of سؤال, representing Kabuli Persian.

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَوَال (sawāl), variant form of سُؤَال (su'āl), from Arabic سُؤَال (suʔāl). Compare Punjabi ਸਵਾਲ (savāl) / سوال (savāl).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.ʋɑːl/, /sə.wɑːl/

• Audio (Pakistan):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːl
• Hyphenation: سَ‧وال

Noun

سَوال • (savāl) m (formal plural سَوالات (savālāt), Hindi spelling सवाल)

1. question

Declension

Declension of سوال
	singular	plural
direct	سَوال (savāl)	سَوال (savāl)
oblique	سَوال (savāl)	سَوالوں (savālõ)
vocative	سَوال (savāl)	سَوالو (savālo)

Further reading

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “سوال”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 789
• “سوال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سؤَال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 692
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سوال”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 389
• “سوال”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834) “سوال”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1114

Ushojo

Verb

سوال (svāl)

1. to request
2. to address

Noun

سوال (svāl)

1. plea, supplication, solicitation, petition, appeal, request