لأي

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Arabic

Root
ل ء ي (l ʔ y)
3 terms

Pronunciation

Noun

لَأْي • (laʔy) m

  1. verbal noun of لَأَى (laʔā, “to be slow”)
  2. slowness
  3. difficulty, hardship

Declension

Declension of noun لَأْي (laʔy)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal لَأْي
laʔy 		اللَّأْي
al-laʔy 		لَأْي
laʔy
Nominative لَأْيٌ
laʔyun 		اللَّأْيُ
al-laʔyu 		لَأْيُ
laʔyu
Accusative لَأْيًا
laʔyan 		اللَّأْيَ
al-laʔya 		لَأْيَ
laʔya
Genitive لَأْيٍ
laʔyin 		اللَّأْيِ
al-laʔyi 		لَأْيِ
laʔyi

Further reading

  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “لأي”, 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) “لأي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 905
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “لأي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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