علل

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Arabic

Root
ع ل ل (ʕ l l)
14 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

عَلَّلَ (ʕallala) II (non-past يُعَلِّلُ (yuʕallilu), verbal noun تَعْلِيل (taʕlīl))

  1. to give to drink a second time
  2. to divert, to busy, to occupy, to distract, to entertain
  3. to explain, to account for; to reason

Conjugation

Further reading

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “علل”, 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) “علل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2123
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “علل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 864