yo:l ‘road, way’, and the like; fr. the earliest period used in various metaph. meanings, e.g. (so many) ‘times’, and later ‘streak, stripe’ (see bars). S.i.a.m.l.g. w. the usual phonetic changes. Türkü viii Köğmen yolı: bir ermiş ‘there was one road across the Kögmen mountains’ T 23; o.o. I N 9 (yurt), etc.—altı: yolı: süŋüşdim ‘I fought six times’ (i.e. battles) II E 28; o.o. I E 15, II E 13 (kırk), etc.: viii ff. IrkB 30 (yara:-), 35 (1 a:r-); ala: atlığ yol (or yul?) teŋri: men ‘I am the God of the Road (or the Spring?) with a dappled horse’ do. 2; a.o. ditto do. 48: Man. eki ağuluğ yol ‘the two poison-infected roads’ Chuas. 125-6; yoluğuz ‘your road’ TT II 6, 24: Uyğ. viii ff. Man.-A (explain) üç yolı ‘his three ways’ M I 34, 12 (religious metaphor): Man. barku (sic) yoluğ bilmedin ‘without knowing the way to go’ TT III 128; o.o. do. 63 (o:z-), etc.: Bud. yol is common both lit. for ‘road’ and metaph. for ‘way’, esp. in a religious sense translating Sanskrit mārga; (then the door-keeper lifting him up) yolta öpi olğurtı ‘sat him facing the road’ PP 66, 2; (let us be released from this sinful body and) kurtulmak yolka teginelim ‘reach the way of salvation’ do. 52, 1-2; at yol ayağ çilteg tileser ‘if he desires fame (Hend.) and respect’ Suv. 444, 5 (or perhaps ‘a (good) name and the (right) road’ ?); o.o. U II 4, 2-3 etc.: Civ. yol is common, at yol tilemekte TT I 196 (cf. Bud.); o.o. do. 21 (o:z-); H I 38 (kaşamğ), etc.: Xak. xi yo:l al-ṭarīq ‘road’; and a journey (al-safar) is also called yo:l; hence one says anıŋ yo:l çıktı: ‘a journey appeared (badā) for him’; this is said only when the journey appears suddenly (or urgently, ‘ind ẓuhūr . . . ‘alā ğirra) Kaş. III 144; I 63, 13 (ança:) and about 30 o.o., usually translated al-ṭarīq: KB köni yolka kirdiŋ ‘you have entered the straight road’ (to paradise) 36; sevinç mende sakınç maŋa yol azar ‘I have happiness, care loses its way to me’ 677; kıldı yol ‘he set out’ 766; o.o. 842, etc.: xiii(?) At. yol is common; generally metaph., e.g. aya şakk yolında yeliğli odun ‘O you who are trotting along the road of doubt, wake up!’ 11; Tef. yol ‘road, way (lit. and metaph.); time(s)’ 160: xiv Muh. al-ṭarīq yo:l Mel. 74, 13; Rif. 178; ṭarraqa ‘to open the way to (someone)’ yo:l et- 28, 7; (112, yul-): Çağ. xv ff. yol rāh (‘road’) wa ṭarīq; and metaph. rāh-i sülūk ‘a way of behaving’ San. 345v. 13: Xwar. xiii yol ‘road, way’ ‘Ali 36: xiii(?) if the transcription is right, in Oğ. sometimes spelt yol, e.g. yolda ‘on the way’ 248, and sometimes col, e.g. colda 228: xiv yol ‘road, way; time(s)’ Qutb 81-2; MN 114, etc.: Kom. xiv yol ‘road, way, journey’, etc. CCI, CCG; Gr. 125 (quotns.): Kıp. xiii al-ṭarīq yo:l Hou. 5, 20; 51, 4: xiv yol (‘back vowel’) ditto İd. 97; (under ‘the earth and what is in it’, between ‘gypsum’ and ‘fortified enclosure’) al-xaṭṭ fi’l-arḍ wa ğayrihā ‘a line on the ground, etc.’ yol Bul. 4, 2; a.o. 2, 13 (kuş): xv ṭarīq yol Tuh. 3a. 13; 23b. 11: Osm. xiv ff. yol in various phr.; c.i.a.p. TTS I 838-40; II 1063-1065; III 817-19; IV 895-7.