هيول

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Arabic

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Etymology

From the root ه ي ل (h-y-l) in the sense of a pile or cluster of things together; piled sand, dust particles. A phono-semantic matching of Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, stuff, matter, substance, literally wood, raw material), supported by the presence in Classical Syriac ܗܝܘܠܐ (hiyūlā), ܗܘܠܐ (hūlā), ܗܝܠܐ (hīlā, matter, material; wood).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ha.juːl/, /hu.juːl/

Noun

هَيُول or هُيُول (hayūl or huyūlm (usually uncountable)

  1. matter; particles; plasma

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References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “هيول”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 425
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “هيول”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1369