آل

āl (rt. اول ), s.f. Family, relations, kinsfolk; children, offspring, progeny, descendants; house, race, dynasty: (The restriction of this word to the maternal progeny, and that of aulād to the paternal, would not appear to exist in Arabic):—āl-aulād, s.f.=āl:—āl-bel, s.f. Children, offspring:—āl-i-sult̤ānī, s.m. Royal family, dynasty:—āl o at̤fāl, s.f.=āl-bel, q.v.