ليل

From Arabic لَيْل (layl), from Proto-Semitic *laylay- (“night”).

• IPA^(key): /liːl/

ليل (līl) m (plural ليالي (lyāli))

1. nighttime, night

   Antonym: نهار (nhār)

From the root ل ي ل (l-y-l). From Proto-Semitic *layl-.

• IPA^(key): /lajl/

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لَيْل • (layl) m (usually uncountable)

1. nighttime, night

   Antonym: نَهَار (nahār)

2. (countable, obsolete) chick of a bustard (حُبَارَى (ḥubārā)) and/or curlew (كَرَوَان (karawān))
3. (countable, obsolete) bustard hen; bustard in general

• لَيْلَ نَهَارَ (layla nahāra)

• لَيْلَة (layla)

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ليل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic لَيْل (layl).

ليل • (līl) m (collective, singulative ليلة f (līla), plural ليالي (layālī))

1. nighttime, night

   الدنيا بقيت ليل ― id-dinyā baʾyit līl ― Night came.

   الليلة دي ― il-līla dī ― today

• نهار (nahār, “daytime”)
• يوم (yūm, “day”)

From Arabic لَيْل (layl).

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːl/,

ليل • (lēl) m (collective, singulative ليلة f (lēla), plural ليالي (layāli))

1. nighttime, night

From French Lille.

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːl/

ليل • (līl) f

1. Lille (a city in France)

From Arabic لَيْل (layl).

• IPA^(key): /lajl/, /liːl/

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لَيْل or لِيل • (layl or līl) m (plural ليالي (lyāli))

1. nighttime, night

• ليل ونهار (layl u nhār, līl u nhar, “all day long”)

• ليلة (layla, līla)

From Arabic لِ (li). The final -l may be due to backformation from the personal forms, themselves derived by reduplication. Compare Maltese lil (“to, with”).

• IPA^(key): /liːl/

ليل • (līl)

1. for

   Synonym: ل (li)

From Arabic لَيْل (layl).

• IPA^(key): /leːl/,

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ليل • (lēl) m (collective, singulative ليلة f (lēle), plural ليالي (layāli))

1. night, nighttime

   Antonym: نهار (nhār)

   نصّ الليل ― noṣṣ il-lēl ― midnight

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• (times of day) أوقات اليوم (ʔawʔāt il-yōm); نهار (nhār, “daytime”), فجر (fajr, “dawn”), صبحية (ṣabaḥiyye, “early morning”), صبح (ṣubḥ, “morning”), ضهر (ḍuhr, “noon”), عصر (ʕaṣr, “late afternoon”), مغرب (maḡreb, “sunset”), مسا (masa, “evening”), ليل (lēl, “nighttime”) ^{(Category: ajp:Times of day)}