فل

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ف ل ل (f l l)
3 terms

Verb

فَلَّ (falla) I (non-past يَفُلُّ (yafullu), verbal noun فَلّ (fall))

  1. to notch, to nick
    • 795, unknown poet, about Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani defeating Al-Walid ibn Tarif al-Shaybani:
      وَائِل بَعْضُهُمْ يَقْتُلُ بَعْضًا لَا يَفُلُّ ٱلْحَدِيدُ إِلَا ٱلْحَدِيدَ .
      wāʔil baʕḍuhum yaqtulu baʕḍan lā yafullu l-ḥadīdu ʔilā l-ḥadīda .
      Wael tribe kill each other, won't notch iron but iron.
  2. to break the sharpness of, to defeat, to rout
Conjugation

Verb

فَلَّ (falla) I (first-person singular past فَلِلْتُ (faliltu), non-past يَفَلُّ (yafallu), verbal noun فَلَل (falal))

  1. to have notches, to fell
  2. to run away, to break free (cf. فَرَّ (farra))
Conjugation

Noun

فَلّ (fallm (plural فُلُول (fulūl))

  1. verbal noun of فَلَّ (falla) (form I)
  2. notch, nick, incision
  3. piece broken off because of notching, fragment, sliver, filing, spark and the like
  4. meagre remnant, piece of rubble
Declension

Noun

فَلّ (fallm (plural فُلُول (fulūl) or أَفْلَال (ʔaflāl) or فُلَّال (fullāl))

  1. a company of men detached or broken off after the defeat of the rest, a party of fugitives
Declension

Noun

فِلّ (fillm

  1. land where there is no herbage, destitute region
Declension

Adjective

فِلّ (fill)

  1. devoid, destitute
Declension
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فُلّJasminum sambac 'Monhariklia', aka Summer Soul Arabian Jasmine

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Perhaps cognate to Hindi फूल (phūl, flower).

Noun

فُلّ or فِلّ (full or fillm

  1. Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
Declension
Descendants
  • Ottoman Turkish: فل (full, ful)
    • Turkish: ful, full
    • Greek: φούλι (foúli)

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek φελλός (phellós, cork).

Noun

فِلّ or فَلّ (fill or fallm

  1. cork, the bast of the cork oak
Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “فل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 276a
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “فل”, 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 367
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 626
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2433–2434
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “فل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 802
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 978b

North Levantine Arabic

Pronunciation

(Lebanon) IPA(key): /fall/

(Syria) IPA(key): /fall/

Verb

فَلّ (fall) I

  1. to leave from a place
  2. to depart

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Arabic فَلّ (fall).

Noun

فل (fell, fel)

  1. notch, nick, incision
  2. piece broken off because of notching, fragment, sliver

Etymology 2

From Arabic فُلّ (full).

Noun

فل (full, ful) (plural فلول (felul))

  1. Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac), and Spanish jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)
  2. sweet mock orange (Philadelphus coronarius)
Descendants

South Levantine Arabic

Pronunciation

Verb

فَلّ (fall) I

  1. to leave from a place
  2. to depart

Conjugation

    Conjugation of فلّ (fall)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m فلّيت (fallēt) فلّيت (fallēt) فلّ (fall) فلّينا (fallēna) فلّيتو (fallētu) فلّو (fallu)
f فلّيتي (fallēti) فلّت (fallat)
present m بفلّ (bafill) بتفلّ (bitfill) بفلّ (bifill) منفلّ (minfill) بتفلّو (bitfillu) بفلّو (bifillu)
f بتفلّي (bitfilli) بتفلّ (bitfill)
subjunctive m افلّ (afill) تفلّ (tfill) يفلّ (yfill) نفلّ (nfill) تفلّو (tfillu) يفلّو (yfillu)
f تفلّي (tfilli) تفلّ (tfill)
imperative m فلّ (fill) فلّو (fillu)
f فلّي (filli)

Noun

فُلّ (transliteration neededm

  1. Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac)