غل

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Arabic

Root
غ ل ل (ḡ l l)
7 terms

Verb

غَلَّ (ḡalla) I (non-past يَغُلُّ (yaḡullu), verbal noun غَلّ (ḡall))

  1. to insert, to join together
  2. to be put into
  3. to be admitted, to enter
  4. to put on the undergarment غِلَالَة (ḡilāla)
  5. to yield crops or revenue
  6. to embezzle
    Synonym: اِخْتَلَسَ (iḵtalasa)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 3:161:
      وَمَا كَانَ لِنَبِيٍّ أَن يَغُلَّۚ وَمَن يَغۡلُلۡ يَأۡتِ بِمَا غَلَّ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِۚ ثُمَّ تُوَفَّىٰ كُلُّ نَفۡسٖ مَّا كَسَبَتۡ وَهُمۡ لَا يُظۡلَمُونَ.
      It is not for any prophet to embezzle. Whoso embezzleth will bring what he embezzled with him on the Day of Resurrection. Then every soul will be paid in full what it hath earned; and they will not be wronged.
  7. to turn from what is right
  8. to bind, to fetter, to chain, to shackle

Conjugation

Verb

غَلَّ (ḡalla) I (non-past يَغِلُّ (yaḡillu), verbal noun غِلّ (ḡill) or غَلِيل (ḡalīl) or غُلُول (ḡulūl))

  1. to thirst for revenge, be full of hatred

Conjugation

Verb

غُلَّ (ḡulla) I (passive-only, first-person singular past غُلِلْتُ (ḡuliltu), non-past يُغَلُّ (yuḡallu), verbal noun غُلّ (ḡull) or غُلَّة (ḡulla))

  1. to suffer from violent thirst

Conjugation

Noun

غَلّ (ḡallm

  1. verbal noun of غَلَّ (ḡalla) (form I)

Declension

Noun

غِلّ (ḡillm

  1. verbal noun of غَلَّ (ḡalla) (form I)

Declension

Noun

غُلّ (ḡullm (plural أَغْلَال (ʔaḡlāl))

  1. verbal noun of غُلَّ (ḡulla, to be thirsty) (form I)
  2. shackle, fetter

Declension

References

Pashto

Etymology

From Proto-Pathan *γal, from an ancestral Middle Iranian form *γal,[1] from Proto-Iranian *gádah.

Pronunciation

Noun

غل (ǧalm

  1. thief

Declension

References

  1. ^ Julian Kreidl (2021) “Lambdacism and the development of Old Iranian *t in Pashto”, in Iran and the Caucasus