ذال

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See also: دال

Arabic

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

ذَال (ḏālf (plural ذَالَات (ḏālāt))

  1. Name of the ninth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ذ ()), representing the sound /ð/
Declension
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: zal
  • Classical Persian: ذَال (zāl)
  • Uzbek: zol

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

ذَالَ (ḏāla) I (non-past يَذِيلُ (yaḏīlu), verbal noun ذَيْل (ḏayl))

  1. to drag (of a garment)
  2. to get a tail, or to have one's tail become long (of an animal)
  3. to raise one's tail (of an animal)
  4. to drag one's garments in arrogance (of a person)
  5. to strut (of a person)
  6. to be humiliated, to be despised (of a person)
  7. to become humble (of a person or one's condition)
  8. to become weak and emaciated from ill treatment
  9. to be pleased
  10. (transitive) to make (something) insignificant
Conjugation

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ذَال (ḏāl).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? zāl
Dari reading? zāl
Iranian reading? zâl
Tajik reading? zol

Noun

Dari ذال
Iranian Persian
Tajik зол

ذال (zâl)

  1. the letter ذ