soal

From Middle English sol, sule, from Old English sol (“mud, wet sand, wallowing-place, slough, a mire or miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mire, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid, muck”). Compare sully. More at soil.

• sole

soal (plural soals)

1. (UK, dialect) Alternative spelling of sole

soal (plural soals)

1. Obsolete form of sole (the fish)

• “soal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ASLO, LAOS, LOAs, Laos, Loas, Salo, also, loas, salo, sola

From Malay soal, from Classical Malay سوٴال (soal), from Arabic سُؤَال (suʔāl).

• IPA^(key): /ˈso.ʔal/
• Hyphenation: so‧al
• Rhymes: -al, -l

soal (plural soal-soal, first-person possessive soalku, second-person possessive soalmu, third-person possessive soalnya)

1. question, problem, matter, point.
2. problem, difficulty, trouble.

   Synonym: masalah

3. (education) problem, question, exercise, paper.
4. concerning, about, regarding.

• (education): soalan (Standard Malay)

• “soal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Arabic سُؤَال (suʔāl).

menyoal

1. to ask, to question, to interrogate

   Polis sedang menyoal suspek tentang rompakan itu.

   The police are interrogating the suspect about the robbery.

• tanya

• persoalan
• soalan

• Indonesian: soal

• “soal” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

soal

1. (stative) to be black

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977