kaul

kaul m (Wiesemann spelling)

1. alternative spelling of Gaul
   • 2008, Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul, SIL Brasil: Associação Internacional de Lingüística, page 30:

     praut, kaul, haut – noiva, cavalo, pele

     bride, horse, skin – bride, horse, skin
     (note: the words right of the hyphen are in Portuguese)

• IPA^(key): /kaʊl/

kaul

1. companionship; fellowship

   Kaul diri sebilik ― The companionship of one’s family

2. treaty; alliance
3. connection

   Sentang kaul pemati iya enggau pengawa ti nerumpak beng nya benung dipansik polis diatu.

   The connection between his death and the robbery of the bank are being investigated by the police now.

kaul

1. to concern
2. to pull with something bent or crooked

   Kaul nuan dulu dan ke siti nya

   Pull that branch

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaul/ [ˈka.ʊl]
• Rhymes: -aul
• Syllabification: kaul

Inherited from Malay kaul, from Persian قول (qawl, ġowl, “promise, vow; saying, speech, words; saying, aphorism, dictum”), from Arabic قَوْل (qawl, “a saying; a declaration; a statement; an assertion; the power of speaking; speech”).

kaul (plural kaul-kaul)

1. vow:
   1. (literally) declaration or assertion.

      Synonyms: ujaran, perkataan

   2. a solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner

      Synonym: nazar

      1. (chiefly Catholicism) especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.
2. (Islam) synonym of fatwa (“fatwa”)

Borrowed from Javanese kawul (“sugar-palm fibre”).

kaul (plural kaul-kaul)

1. sugar-palm fiber

From Elnama. Probably related to etymology 1.

kaul (plural kaul-kaul)

1. person who makes sacrifices

• “kaul”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Arabic قَوْل (qawl).

• Rhymes: -ul

kaul (Jawi spelling کاءول or قول, plural kaul-kaul)

1. vow

• “kaul”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017