استحال

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Arabic

Root
ح و ل (ḥ w l)
30 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

اِسْتَحَالَ (istaḥāla) X (non-past يَسْتَحِيلُ (yastaḥīlu), verbal noun اِسْتِحَالَة (istiḥāla))

  1. to be impossible
  2. to be absurd, to be inconceivable
  3. (copulative) to become
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:صار
    اِسْتَحَالَ الْمَاءُ جَلِيدًا
    istaḥāla l-māʔu jalīdan
    The water turned into ice.
    • 1945, Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      لُغْزُ الْحَيَاةِ وَحَيْرَةُ الْأَلْبَابِ / أَنْ يَسْتَحِيلَ الْفِكْرُ مَحْضَ تُرَابِ
      luḡzu l-ḥayāti waḥayratu l-ʔalbābi / ʔan yastaḥīla l-fikru maḥḍa turābi
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  4. to switch, to change, to transform, to be converted
  5. (Christianity) to be transubstantiated (of the Eucharist)

Conjugation