ء ل و

See also: ء و ل

Arabic

Root

ء ل و • (ʔ-l-w)

1. related to falling short and striving not to fall short

Derived terms

• Form I: أَلَا (ʔalā, “to fall short, to neglect; to refrain, to desist”)
  • Verbal noun: أَلْو (ʔalw), أُلُوّ (ʔuluww), أُلِيّ (ʔuliyy)
  • Active participle: آلٍ (ʔālin, “falling short, being remiss”)
  • Passive participle: مَأْلُوّ (maʔluww)
• Form I: أَلِيَ (ʔaliya, “to have a fat tail”)
  • Verbal noun: أَلًى (ʔalan)
  • Active participle: آلٍ (ʔālin)
  • Passive participle: مَأْلُوّ (maʔluww)
• Form IV: آلَى (ʔālā, “to swear, to vow”)
  • Verbal noun: إِيلَاء (ʔīlāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُؤْلٍ (muʔlin)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْلًى (muʔlan)
• Form VIII: اِئْتَلَى (iʔtalā, “to fall short; to desist; to swear”), اِيتَلَى (ītalā, “to fall short; to desist; to swear”)
  • Verbal noun: اِئْتِلَاء (iʔtilāʔ), اِيتِلَاء (ītilāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُؤْتَلٍ (muʔtalin)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْتَلًى (muʔtalan)

• أَلِيَّة (ʔaliyya, “a falling short, remissness; oath”) (√ *أَلِيوَة (*ʔalīwa)); pl. أَلايَا (ʔalāyā)
• أَلِيّ (ʔaliyy, “one who swears much; having a fat tail”)
• أَلْوَة (ʔalwa), أُلْوَة (ʔulwa), إِلْوَة (ʔilwa, “oath”)
• إلًى (ʔilan, “benefit, favour, blessing”); pl. آلَاء (ʔālāʔ)
• أَلْيَة (ʔalya, “fat buttock, fat tail”); pl. أَلَيَات (ʔalayāt) and أَلايَا (ʔalāyā)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ء ل و”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 52–53
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ء ل و”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 48–50
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ء ل و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 75–77, 83–87
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ء ل و”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 27–28, 30