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Arabic
Root
ء ل و • (ʔ-l-w)
- related to falling short and striving not to fall short
Derived terms
- Form I: أَلَا (ʔalā, “to fall short, to neglect; to refrain, to desist”)
- Verbal noun: أَلْو (ʔalw), أُلُوّ (ʔuluww), أُلِيّ (ʔuliyy)
- Active participle: آلٍ (ʔālin, “falling short, being remiss”)
- Passive participle: مَأْلُوّ (maʔluww)
- Form I: أَلِيَ (ʔaliya, “to have a fat tail”)
- Verbal noun: أَلًى (ʔalan)
- Active participle: ?
- Passive participle: مَأْلُوّ (maʔluww)
- Form IV: آلَى (ʔālā, “to swear, to vow”)
- Verbal noun: إِيلَاء (ʔīlāʔ)
- Active participle: مُؤْلٍ (muʔlin)
- Passive participle: مُؤْلًى (muʔlan)
- Form VIII: اِئْتَلَى (iʔtalā, “to fall short; to desist; to swear”)
- أَلِيَّة (ʔaliyya, “a falling short, remissness; oath”) (√ *أَلِيوَة (*ʔalīwa)); pl. أَلايَا (ʔalāyā)
- أَلِيّ (ʔaliyy, “one who swears much; having a fat tail”)
- أَلْوَة (ʔalwa), أُلْوَة (ʔulwa), إِلْوَة (ʔilwa, “oath”)
- إلًى (ʔilan, “benefit, favour, blessing”); pl. آلَاء (ʔālāʔ)
- أَلْيَة (ʔalya, “fat buttock, fat tail”); pl. أَلَيَات (ʔalayāt) and أَلايَا (ʔalāyā)
References
- Freytag, Georg (1830) “ء ل و”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 52–53
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ء ل و”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 48–50
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ء ل و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 75–77, 83–87
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “ء ل و”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 27–28, 30