ثقيل

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Arabic

Root
ث ق ل (ṯ-q-l)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /θa.qiːl/
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Adjective

ثَقِيل (ṯaqīl) (feminine ثَقِيلَة (ṯaqīla), common plural ثِقَال (ṯiqāl), masculine plural ثَقِيلُونَ (ṯaqīlūna) or ثُقَلَاء (ṯuqalāʔ), feminine plural ثَقِيلَات (ṯaqīlāt), elative أَثْقَل (ʔaṯqal))

  1. heavy
    Antonym: خَفِيف (ḵafīf)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 13:12:
      هُوَ ٱلَّذِي يُرِيكُمُ ٱلْبَرْقَ خَوْفًا وَطَمَعًا وَيُنْشِئُ ٱلسَّحَابَ ٱلثِّقَالَ
      huwa llaḏī yurīkumu l-barqa ḵawfan waṭamaʕan wayunšiʔu s-saḥāba ṯ-ṯiqāla
      He it is Who showeth you the lightning, a fear and a hope, and raiseth the heavy clouds.
  2. burdensome
    • 2021, حنان لاشين, سقطرى, →ISBN, page 139:
      أراد « سُلیمان » أن يرتاح، فسكن تحت شجرة التفاح قليلا وأخذ يحدق إلى كفيه المحتقنتين وينفخ فيهما ليخفف الحُرقة التي كان يشعر بها، كان هذا ثقيلا عليه، وعلى صغر عمره تحمل كما يتحمل بعض الصغار معاناتهم في صمت
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. indigestible
  4. morose
  5. tiresome
  6. disagreeable
  7. ponderous, clumsy
  8. lazy
  9. troubled in body or mind
  10. severe
  11. weighty
  12. (grammar) geminate
    نُونُ التَّوْكِيدِ الثَّقِيلَةِnūnu t-tawkīdi ṯ-ṯaqīlati(please add an English translation of this usage example)

Declension

Descendants

  • Gulf Arabic: ثقيل
  • Maltese: tqil
  • Moroccan Arabic: تقيل (tqīl)
  • North Levantine Arabic: تقيل (tʔīl)
  • North Levantine Arabic: سئيل (saʔīl)

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ثقيل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ث ق ل
2 terms

Etymology

From Arabic ثَقِيل (ṯaqīl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.ɡiːl/, /θa.ɡiːl/

Adjective

ثقيل (tagīl) (feminine ثقيلة (tagīla), common plural ثُقال (tugāl) or ثقيلين (tagīlīn), elative أثقل (ʔatgall))

  1. heavy
    Antonym: خَفِيف (ḵafīf)
  2. weighty