اعتل

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Arabic

Root
ع ل ل (ʕ l l)
14 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

اِعْتَلَّ (iʕtalla) VIII (non-past يَعْتَلُّ (yaʕtallu), verbal noun اِعْتِلَال (iʕtilāl))

  1. to be affected by a defect; to be sick, to be morbid
  2. (grammar) to be weak, to be defective
  3. to give as a pretext, to justify oneself with

Conjugation

Further reading

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “اعتل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 204
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “اعتل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2123
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “اعتل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 865