حاول

• IPA^(key): /ħaː.wa.la/

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حَاوَلَ • (ḥāwala) III (non-past يُحَاوِلُ (yuḥāwilu), verbal noun مُحَاوَلَة (muḥāwala))

1. to try
   • 2007, Louisa Alcott, نِسَاء صَغِيرَات (nisāʔ ṣaḡīrāt) [Little Women (translation into Arabic)], دَار الْبِحَار بَيْرُوت (dār al-biḥār bayrūt), page 6:

     كَانُوا فِي الْمَاضِي أَغْنِيَاءَ، إِلَّا أَنَّ وَالِدَهُنَّ فَقَدَ أَمْوَالَهُ وَهُوَ يُحَاوِلُ مُسَاعَدَةَ صَدِيقٍ لَهُ.

     kānū fi l-māḍī ʔaḡniyāʔa, ʔillā ʔanna wālidahunna faqada ʔamwālahu wahuwa yuḥāwilu musāʕadata ṣadīqin lahu.

     They used to be quite rich, but their father lost his money in trying to help a friend of his.

2. to seek
   • 10th century Al-Mutanabbi

     أَتَحْلِفُ لَا تُكَلِّفَنِي مَسِيرًا / إِلَى بَلَدٍ أُحَاوِلُ فِيهِ مَالًا

     ʔataḥlifu lā tukallifanī masīran / ʔilā baladin ʔuḥāwilu fīhi mālan

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• سَعَى (saʕā)
• طَلَبَ (ṭalaba)

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “حول”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic حَاوَلَ (ḥāwala).

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حاول • (ḥāwil) III (non-past يحاول (yiḥāwil), verbal noun محاولة (muḥawla))

1. (intransitive) to try, to attempt

• Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) “حاول”, in A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 234
• El Dik, Dina, Iskander, Emad (2021) Yalla! Let's Learn Egyptian Colloquial Arabic Verbs, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39

From Arabic حَاوَلَ (ḥāwala).

• IPA^(key): /ħaː.wal/,

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حاول • (ḥāwal) III (present بحاول (biḥāwel))

1. to try, to attempt

   Synonym: جرّب (járrab)