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Northern Kurdish
Etymology 1
From Arabic عَاقِل (ʕāqil, “reasonable; intelligent”), active participle of عَقَلَ (ʕaqala, “to be endowed with reason, to have intelligence, to be conscious, to realize”), derived from the root ع ق ل (ʕ q l).
Pronunciation
Adjective
aqil or ‘aqil (comparative aqiltir, superlative herî aqil or aqiltirîn, Arabic spelling ئاقل or عاقل)
- smart, intelligent
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql, “understanding, reason”).
Noun
aqil m (Arabic spelling ئاقل)
- intelligence, cleverness, sense, wisdom, reason
- Synonyms: hiş, sewda
Declension
Derived terms
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “aqil I”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 9
- Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “aqil II”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 10