لأى

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Arabic

Root
ل ء ي (l ʔ y)
3 terms

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Verb

لَأَى (laʔā) I (non-past يَلْأَى (yalʔā), verbal noun لَأْي (laʔy))

  1. to be slow
Conjugation
Further reading
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “لأى”, 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), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 954
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “لأى”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 905

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

لَأًى (laʔanm (dual لَأَيَان (laʔayān), plural أَلْآء (ʔalʔāʔ), feminine لَآة (laʔāh))

  1. wild ox
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “لأى”, 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), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 954
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “لأى”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 906