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Afar
Etymology
From Arabic أَمَل (ʔamal).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈamal/ , /aˈmal/
- Hyphenation: a‧mal
Noun
ámal or amál m
- hope
Declension
Declension of ámal
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absolutive
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ámal
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predicative
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ámala
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subjective
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ámal
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genitive
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ámal
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Declension of amál
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absolutive
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amál
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predicative
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amála
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subjective
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amál
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genitive
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amál
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References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), pages 51, 80
Azerbaijani
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Arabic أَمَل (ʔamal).
Noun
amal (definite accusative amalı, plural amallar)
- idea
- Synonym: ideya
- dream, desire, hope
- Synonyms: arzu, ümid, dilək
- high goal, high purpose
- Synonyms: qayə, məqsəd
Etymology 2
From Arabic أَعْمَال (ʔaʕmāl), plural of عَمَل (ʕamal).
Noun
amal (definite accusative amalı, plural amallar)
- work, action, deed
- Synonyms: hərəkət, iş, əməl
Declension
Further reading
Cornish
Noun
amal m (plural emlow)
- border, edge, margin, verge, side, periphery
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
Noun
amal m (uncountable)
- Amal (language)
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Malay amal, from Classical Malay عمل (amal), from Arabic عَمَل (ʕamal, “work, action, deed”).[1]
Noun
amal (plural amal-amal, first-person possessive amalku, second-person possessive amalmu, third-person possessive amalnya)
- deed.
- Synonym: perbuatan
- charity.
- Synonyms: bantuan, derma, donasi, infak, pertolongan, sedekah, sokongan, subsidi, sumbangan
Derived terms
Adjective
amal
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) able as a shaman to summon something when needed.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Bahau .
Noun
amal (plural amal-amal, first-person possessive amalku, second-person possessive amalmu, third-person possessive amalnya)
- (cooking) meat floss
- Hypernym: abon
References
- ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC
Further reading
Irish
Noun
amal m (genitive singular amail, nominative plural amail)
- Alternative form of gamal (“gomeral, lout, simpleton, fool”)
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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amal
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n-amal
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hamal
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t-amal
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
Old Irish
Etymology
From unstressed form of samail.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
amal (followed by indirect relative)
- as, like
- as if, as though
- when, while
For quotations using this term, see Citations:amal.
Descendants
Preposition
amal (with accusative, lenites)
- as, like
For quotations using this term, see Citations:amal.
Inflection
Inflection of amal
Person
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Normal
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Emphatic
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1st person sing.
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samlum
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samlumsa
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2d person sing.
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samlut
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3d sing. masc./neut., dative
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3d sing. masc./neut., accusative
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saml(a)id, samlith
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3d sing. fem., dative
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3d sing. fem., accusative
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1st person pl.
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2d person pl.
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3d person pl., dative
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3d person pl., accusative
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samlaib
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samlaibsom
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Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “amail, amal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 168, 178, 826
Romani
Etymology
Borrowed from Pashto (mal). Compare Ossetian ӕмбал (æmbal).[1]
Noun
amal m (accusative amales, nominative plural amala, accusative plural amalen)
- friend[1][2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “amál”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 5ab
- ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o amal, -es ʒ. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 59a
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish آمال (amal), Arabic آمَال (ʔāmāl).
Pronunciation
Noun
amal
- plural of emel
Turkmen
Etymology
From Arabic عَمَل (ʕamal).
Noun
amal (definite accusative amaly, plural amallar)
- action
Declension