عل

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Arabic

Root
ع ل ل (ʕ l l)
14 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

عَلَّ (ʕalla) I (non-past يَعُلُّ (yaʕullu), verbal noun عَلَل (ʕalal) or عَلّ (ʕall))

  1. to give a second time, to bestow a second time, to apply a second time to

Conjugation

Verb

عَلَّ (ʕalla) I (non-past يَعِلُّ (yaʕillu), verbal noun عَلّ (ʕall))

  1. to be sick, to be ill

Conjugation

Noun

عَلّ (ʕallm

  1. verbal noun of عَلَّ (ʕalla) (form I)

Declension

Particle

عَلَّ (ʕalla)

  1. hopefully
  2. in order, so that
  3. perhaps, maybe

Further reading

  • عل” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “عل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 204
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “عل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2123
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “عل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 864