ميل

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Arabic

Etymology 1

From م ي ل (m-y-l), meaning to incline, to bend, to lean.

Verb

مَيِلَ (mayila) I (non-past يَمْيَلُ (yamyalu), verbal noun مَيَل (mayal))

  1. to be bent, to be tilted, to be slanted
Conjugation

Verb

مَيَّلَ (mayyala) II (non-past يُمَيِّلُ (yumayyilu), verbal noun تَمْيِيل (tamyīl))

  1. (transitive) to bend, to tilt
  2. to make (someone) inclined or sympathetic
  3. to make (someone) disinclined, to alienate
Conjugation

Noun

مَيْل (maylm (plural مُيُول (muyūl))

  1. verbal noun of مَالَ (māla, to lean) (form I)
  2. inclination, tendency
  3. goodwill, sympathy
  4. taste, disposition, a mind for
Declension
Descendants
  • Maltese: mejl
  • Azerbaijani: meyil
  • Ottoman Turkish: میل (meyl, meyil)
    > Turkish: meyil (inherited)
  • Persian: میل (meyl)
  • Turkmen: meýil
  • Uyghur: مەيىل (meyil)
  • Uzbek: mayl

Noun

مَيَل (mayalm

  1. verbal noun of مَيِلَ (mayila) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin mīlle passuum (literally a thousand of paces); compare Classical Syriac ܡܝܠܐ (mīlā) and Hebrew מַיְל (mayl). The reach of an eye originates from a folk etymology explaining the distance of a mile, literally the distance to which the eye reaches along land before the horizon curves out of sight.

Noun

مِيل (mīlm (plural أَمْيَال (ʔamyāl) or مُيُول (muyūl))

  1. reach of the eye, as far as one can see
  2. mile
  3. milestone, column, obelisk, boundary stone
  4. hand of a sundial
Declension
Descendants
  • Ottoman Turkish: میل (mil)

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek μήλη (mḗlē, probe).

Noun

مَيْل (maylm (plural مُيُول (muyūl)) (obsolete)

  1. a kind of metal probe in form of a needle for applying collyrium or other treatments
Declension
Descendants
  • Ottoman Turkish: میل (mil)

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 261
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ميل”, 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), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1174–1175
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 48

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

مِيل (mīlm pl or f pl

  1. plural of أَمْيَل (ʔamyal, leaning to one side)

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

مِيلَ (mīla) (form I) /miː.la/

  1. third-person masculine singular past passive of مَالَ (māla)