تليس

Arabic

FWOTD – 27 March 2023

Etymology 1

Ultimately of Kartvelian origin, via Aramaic, Iranian or Old Armenian, see Old Armenian թաղ (tʻał, “felt”) for more. The similarity of this word and its Iberian descendants to the Romance descendants of Latin trilīx meaning a kind of fabric or canvas is a coincidence. Likewise طَيْلَسان (ṭaylasān, “pallium”) and أَطْلَس (ʔaṭlas, “satin”).

Alternative forms

• تِلِّيسَة (tillīsa)

Pronunciation

• (formal) IPA^(key): /til.liːs/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /tal.liːs/

Noun

تِلِّيس • (tillīs) m (plural تَلَالِيس (talālīs)) (dialectal, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Egypt, Sudan, Anatolia)

1. (obsolete) sackcloth, horsecloth, rough covering, blanket, tapis
   • 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎^[1], volume II, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1854, page 35, line 2 a fine:

     وقد لبسوا التلاليس وجِلال الدوابّ وجعلوا فوق رءوسهم التراب والتبن.

     They were clothed in sack and pelts of domestic beasts and had their heads covered with earth and straw.

2. sack, pouch

   Synonyms: غِرَارَة (ḡirāra), كِيس (kīs), جُوَال (juwāl), عِدْل (ʕidl)

   • 2020 February 29, “كوثر الخديجي:فعل الحصاد والنجاعة الرمزية”, in Al-Minaṣṣa‎^[2], archived from the original on 22 August 2020:

     وهكذا حتى يتم فصل الحبوب عن التبن نهائيا ليتم تخزينها في أكياس البلاستيك بألوانها الصفراء والزرقاء التي غزت بشكل كبير مجال الفلاحة ، ولكن قبلا كانت أكياس من القنب البني “التليس”، وتوضع في مطامير معدة لهذه الغاية داخل البيوت أو بجانبها مباشرة بعد أن تتم مداواتها بواسطة أدوية تشترى من السوق الأسبوعي التي قد تجعل الحول يمر عليها أو يكاد دون أن يصيبها التلف

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Declension

Declension of noun تِلِّيس (tillīs)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تِلِّيس tillīs	التِّلِّيس at-tillīs	تِلِّيس tillīs
Nominative	تِلِّيسٌ tillīsun	التِّلِّيسُ at-tillīsu	تِلِّيسُ tillīsu
Accusative	تِلِّيسًا tillīsan	التِّلِّيسَ at-tillīsa	تِلِّيسَ tillīsa
Genitive	تِلِّيسٍ tillīsin	التِّلِّيسِ at-tillīsi	تِلِّيسِ tillīsi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تِلِّيسَيْن tillīsayn	التِّلِّيسَيْن at-tillīsayn	تِلِّيسَيْ tillīsay
Nominative	تِلِّيسَانِ tillīsāni	التِّلِّيسَانِ at-tillīsāni	تِلِّيسَا tillīsā
Accusative	تِلِّيسَيْنِ tillīsayni	التِّلِّيسَيْنِ at-tillīsayni	تِلِّيسَيْ tillīsay
Genitive	تِلِّيسَيْنِ tillīsayni	التِّلِّيسَيْنِ at-tillīsayni	تِلِّيسَيْ tillīsay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تَلَالِيس talālīs	التَّلَالِيس at-talālīs	تَلَالِيس talālīs
Nominative	تَلَالِيسُ talālīsu	التَّلَالِيسُ at-talālīsu	تَلَالِيسُ talālīsu
Accusative	تَلَالِيسَ talālīsa	التَّلَالِيسَ at-talālīsa	تَلَالِيسَ talālīsa
Genitive	تَلَالِيسَ talālīsa	التَّلَالِيسِ at-talālīsi	تَلَالِيسِ talālīsi

Descendants

• Maltese: tellisa
• → French: tellis
• → Portuguese: teliz
• → Spanish: telliz

References

• Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 189
• Cherbonneau, Auguste (1849) “Définition lexigraphique de plusieurs mots usités dans le langage de l’Afrique septentrionale”, in Journal asiatique‎^[3] (in French), volume 55 / Quatrième Série Tome XIII, page 65
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 222
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “تليس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[4] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 150b
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne, Engelmann, Wilhelm Hermann (1869) Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, dérivés de l’arabe‎^[5] (in French), 2^nd edition, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 349–350
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes‎^[6] (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, pages 369–370
• Simonet, Francisco Javier (1888) Glosario de voces ibéricas y latinas usadas entre los mozárabes (in Spanish), Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de Fortanet, page 526
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “تليس”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎^[7] (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 347b

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

تَلْيَسُ • (talyasu) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative of لَيِسَ (layisa)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative of لَيِسَ (layisa)

Verb

تَلْيَسَ • (talyasa) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive of لَيِسَ (layisa)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive of لَيِسَ (layisa)

Verb

تَلْيَسْ • (talyas) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of لَيِسَ (layisa)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of لَيِسَ (layisa)