tul

tul

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tula.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tula terms

From Proto-Albanian *tulla- (“piece of meat”), from older *túli̯a-, from Pre-Proto-Albanian *tuu̯úli̯a- < *tuu̯əl̥i̯-á- < *tuHəli̯-á-, from Proto-Indo-European *tuh₂ló- (“swollen”) or *tuh₂li̯-ó- (“having swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).^[1]

Cognate to:

• Ancient Greek τύλος (túlos, “torus, wale”),
• Latin tullius (“swell, flood, gush, jet”),
• Middle High German dolle, dulle (“foliage”),
• Swedish tull (“pine cone”).^[2]

Ultimately a doublet of tytë and tëtanë (possibly).

tul m (plural tule, definite tuli, definite plural tulet)

1. flesh
2. pulp
3. bread core
4. crumb

• IPA^(key): [ˈtul]

tul

1. second-person singular imperative of tulit

• tol

Clipping of betul.

• (Standard Literary) IPA^(key): /ˈtul/ [ˈt̪ul]
• Rhymes: -ul
• Hyphenation: tul

tul (Jawi spelling تول, comparative lebih tul, superlative paling tul)

1. (colloquial) apheretic form of betul

tul (Jawi spelling تول)

1. (colloquial) apheretic form of betul

tul (Jawi spelling تول)

1. (colloquial) apheretic form of betul

• Hoogervorst, Tom (2015), “Malay youth language in West Malaysia”, in NUSA‎^[2], volume 58, number 3, →DOI, archived from the original on 26 April 2025, page 29

Inherited from Arabic طُول (ṭūl).

• IPA^(key): /tuːl/
• Rhymes: -uːl

tul m (plural tulijiet)

1. length (in space or time), duration
   • 1970, Anton Buttigieg, “It-Tallab”, in Fl-Arena:

     Wara l-bibien,
     fit-tul tat-toroq twal,
     batejt
     il-għeja
     il-qtigħ ta’ qalb,
     batejt fuq kollox il-mistħija;
     iżda ġarrabt ukoll
     il-ferħ u l-għaxqa
     li kull tallab iħoss
     x’ħin jasal wisq għajjien bil-ħorġa f’idu
     bil-ħobż għand ommu mġewħa.

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tul

1. throughout, for the length of, for many

   tul is-snin ― for many years

   tul il-lejl ― all night

• IPA^(key): /ˈtul/

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• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: tul

Learned borrowing from New Latin thūlium.

tul m inan (related adjective tulowy)

1. thulium (metallic chemical element (symbol Tm) with atomic number 69: a fairly soft, easily workable metal with a bright silvery-gray lustre)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tul

1. second-person singular imperative of tulić

• “tul”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• tul in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from French tulle.

tul n (plural tuluri)

1. tulle

tul m (plural tules)

1. tulle (material)
2. (Honduras) bulrush

• “tul”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Cognate to Silt'e [script needed] (tuli).

tul

1. worm

• Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind