وعل

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Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *waʕil-. The verb derives from the animal-name through the ideas of “ascending”, "to climb”, “to seek refuge in the mountains”, “to escape”, especially by climbing out of reach.

Verb

وَعَلَ (waʕala) I (non-past يَعِلُ (yaʕilu), verbal noun وَعْل (waʕl))

  1. to tower, to stand high
  2. to be of high rank
  3. to overtop

Conjugation

Noun

وَعِل ,ماعز برّي

وَعِل or وَعْل (waʕil or waʕlm (plural أَوْعَال (ʔawʕāl) or وُعُول (wuʕūl))

  1. wild goat (Capra)
  2. antelope, ibex

Declension

Noun

وَعْل (waʕlm (plural أَوْعَال (ʔawʕāl) or وُعُول (wuʕūl))

  1. refuge, asylum, redoubt, place of escape
  2. eminent man, one able to provide sanctuary, a rescuer

Declension

Noun

وَعِل or وَعْل (waʕil or waʕlm (plural وِعْلَان (wiʕlān) or أَوْعَال (ʔawʕāl))

  1. (obsolete) name of the tenth lunar calendar month in Arabian paganism, called شَوَّال (šawwāl) in Islam

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “وعل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 484
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “وعل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1416–1417