ذ ه ل

Arabic

Etymology

See ذ ه ب (ḏ-h-b), especially the meaning “to be forgotten” of ذَهَبَ (ḏahaba).

Root

ذ ه ل • (ḏ-h-l)

1. Related to neglect, daze and forgetfulness

Derived terms

• Form I: ذَهِلَ (ḏahila, “to lose heed of; to arrange oneself with the absence of; to be stunned, to be dazed”)
  • Verbal noun: ذَهْل (ḏahl)
  • Active participle: ذَاهِل (ḏāhil)
  • Passive participle: مَذْهُول (maḏhūl)
• Form I: ذَهَلَ (ḏahala, “to lose heed of”)
  • Verbal noun: ذَهْل (ḏahl), ذُهُول (ḏuhūl)
  • Active participle: ذَاهِل (ḏāhil)
  • Passive participle: مَذْهُول (maḏhūl)
• Form IV: أَذْهَلَ (ʔaḏhala, “to make forget, to distract, to stun”)
  • Verbal noun: إِذْهَال (ʔiḏhāl)
  • Active participle: مُذْهِل (muḏhil)
  • Passive participle: مُذْهَل (muḏhal)
• Form VII: اِنْذَهَلَ (inḏahala, “to be stupefied”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْذِهَال (inḏihāl)
  • Active participle: مُنْذَهِل (munḏahil)

• ذُهُول (ḏuhūl, “dazedness, stupor”)
• ذَهْل (ḏahl, “a part of the night”)
• مَذْهَل (maḏhal, “abandoned place”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 503
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ذ ه ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 98
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ذ ه ل”, 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 C^ie, page 786