Pul (Architecture)

Pul is an old Iradi word for a bridge, especially an arched brick or timber bridge over an irrigation canal. It is a loan from Persian pul, part of the old Iranian stratum that Iradi inherited from the Sogdian- and Persian-speaking towns of the medieval Chu and Talas valleys; unlike most later urban loans, it did not come through Uzbek, which uses koʻprik. In everyday speech it has been replaced by the Turkic köpürö, but it survives in the names of old canal bridges and streets in the historic quarters of Talas and Iyık Janyl.