معلق

Derived from the passive participle of عَلَّقَ (ʕallaqa, “to hang, to suspend, to attach”).

• IPA^(key): /mu.ʕal.laq/

مُعَلَّق • (muʕallaq) (feminine مُعَلَّقَة (muʕallaqa), masculine plural مُعَلَّقُونَ (muʕallaqūna), feminine plural مُعَلَّقَات (muʕallaqāt))

1. suspended, hanging
2. attached
3. lit (of a fuse)
4. undecided
5. dependent (بِ (bi) or عَلَى (ʕalā) on)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “معلق”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “علق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

مُعَلَّق • (muʕallaq) m

1. that on which anything is suspended
2. attachment
3. pulley of a well
4. rope of the bucket
5. bucket

Derived from the active participle of عَلَّقَ (ʕallaqa, “to comment”).

• IPA^(key): /mu.ʕal.liq/

مُعَلِّق • (muʕalliq) m

1. commentator

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “معلق”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen