His sorrel face, his long narrow eyes and dusty boots, where he goes on his travels and what really transpires inside the lonely hide tents Out There, among theauls, out in that wind, these are mysteries they don’t care to enter or touch.
1993, Eduard M[artynovich] Dune; Diane P. Koenker and S[tephen] A[nthony] Smith, translators and editors,Notes of a Red Guard, Urbana; Chicago, Ill.:University of Illinois Press,→ISBN,page221:
Bitter fighting took place forGimry, the home both of Khadzhi-Murat and Shamil. A highway ran along here, which permitted us to bring up artillery and to subject theaul to preliminary bombardment. We did not fire at any specific target, but if even half of our thirteen hundred shells had landed there, there would have been only a heap of ruins in place of theaul.
2011, Michael Khodarkovsky, “Journey through the Northeast Caucasus”, inBitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus, Ithaca, N.Y.:Cornell University Press,→ISBN,page55:
Crossing the large plateau, they passed theauls of Megeb and Chokh before reachingGunib, a significantAvar settlement.[…] The Avarauls were surrounded by a virtually uninterrupted circle of mountain ranges and occupied most of the plateaus between the tributaries of theSulak River:Andi Koysu, Avar Koysu and Kara Koysu.
“aul” inMartalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974),Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page23