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Arabic
Pronunciation
Noun
مَقَالَة • (maqāla) f (plural مَقَالَات (maqālāt))
- verbal noun of قَالَ (qāla) (form I)
- article, essay
كَتَبَ مَقَالَةً عَنِ ٱلْأَوْضَاعِ بِسُورْيَةَ.- kataba maqālatan ʕani l-ʔawḍāʕi bisūryata.
- He wrote an essay about the situation in Syria.
- (dated) something that has been said
- Synonyms: قَوْل (qawl), مَقَال (maqāl)
a. 756, عبد اللّٰه بن المقفّع , edited by Michael Fishbein, كتاب كليلة ودمنة [Kalīlah and Dimnah] (Library of Arabic Literature; 76), New York: NYU Press, published 2022, →ISBN, section 9.3, page 276:إِنَّهُ مَنْ قَالَ فِيمَا لَا يَدْرِي هَلْ يَكُونُ أَمْ لَا مِثْلَ مَقَالَتِكَ كَانَ خَلِيقًا أَنْ يَصِيرَ أَمْرُهُ إِلَى مَا صَارَ إِلَيْهِ أَمْرُ ٱلْنَّاسِكِ ٱلَّذِي ٱنْصَبَّ سَمْنُهُ وَعَسَلُهُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ.- ʔinnahu man qāla fīmā lā yadrī hal yakūnu ʔam lā miṯla maqālatika kāna ḵalīqan ʔan yaṣīra ʔamruhu ʔilā mā ṣāra ʔilayhi ʔamru l-nnāsiki llaḏī nṣabba samnuhu waʕasaluhu ʕalā raʔsihi.
- He who commit himself where he knows not whether it is or is not – you are aptly likened in your talk’s effect to the ascetic whose cause came out in such a fashion that his butter and honey spilled on his head.
a. 1328, Ibn Taymiyyah, مجموع فتاوى ابن تيمية:سُئِلَ عَنْ رَجُلَيْنِ تَنَازَعَا فِي كَيْفِيَّةِ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ هَلْ هُمَا جِسْمَانِ كُرِيَّانِ؟ فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا: «كُرِيَّانِ» وَأَنْكَرَ الْآخَرُ هَذِهِ الْمَقَالَةَ وَقَالَ: «لَيْسَ لَهَا أَصْلٌ» وَرَدَّهَا، فَمَا الصَّوَابُ؟- suʔila ʕan rajulayni tanāzaʕā fī kayfiyyati s-samāʔi wa-l-ʔarḍi hal humā jismāni kuriyyāni? faqāla ʔaḥaduhumā: “kuriyyāni” wa-ʔankara l-ʔāḵaru haḏihi al-maqālata wa-qāla: “laysa lahā ʔaṣlun” wa-raddahā, fa-mā ṣ-ṣawābu?
- He was asked about two men who disputed the quality of heaven and earth, whether they are ball-shaped. One said, “ball-shaped”, and the other denied this statement and said “they have no ground”, and rejected it, however which is right?
Declension
Declension of noun مَقَالَة (maqāla)
Descendants
References
- Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “مقالة”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN