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Arabic
Noun
לילה • (transliteration needed) f
- Judeo-Arabic spelling of لَيْلَة (layla, “night”)
Hebrew
Etymology
Likely a remnant of the accusative case (used adverbially to mean “at night”) of לַיִל (láyil), from Proto-Semitic *layl-. Cognate with Arabic لَيْل (layl), لَيْلَة (layla), Aramaic לֵילְיָא (lēləyā), Classical Syriac ܠܹܠܝܵܐ (lēlyā).
Pronunciation
Noun
לַיְלָה • (láyla) m (plural indefinite לֵילוֹת, singular construct לֵיל־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form לָיְלָה)
- (countable) night (the time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark)
- (figuratively) adversity
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