Etymology 1

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جمع - مفردها “indole”.

Pronunciation 1

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اسم

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indoles ج.

  1. صِيغَةُ جَمْعٍ مُفْرَدُهَا indole#English.

Etymology 2

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From قالب:L. indolēs, from indu-, “within, in” + ol-, “to grow” (an affix also found in abolish and adolescent).

Pronunciation 2

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اسم

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indoles (اسم غير قابل للعد)

  1. Natural disposition; innate character; unalterable intrinsic traits and qualities قالب:italbrac.[1]
    • 1673: Obadiah Walker, Of education, especially of young gentlemen, p93
      He must be treated as the Brachmans did their children, whose indoles they disliked.
    • 1677: Sir Matthew Hale, The primitive origination of mankind, p160
      Such is the indoles of the Humane Nature, where it is not strangely over-grown with Barbarousness.
    • 1882: [Author Unknown], The Quaterly Review (July Ed.), p214
      Every language has its own ‘indoles’.

References

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  1. The Oxford English Dictionary (2007)