زعل

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Arabic

Etymology

From the root ز ع ل (z-ʕ-l).

Verb

زَعِلَ (zaʕila) I, non-past يَزْعَلُ‎ (yazʕalu)

  1. (archaic) to prance, to leap, to spring
  2. (archaic) to exult, to become lively, to become brisk, to behave agilely
  3. (informal) to be miffed, to be mad, to be surly, to huff

Conjugation

Verb

زَعَّلَ (zaʕʕala) II, non-past يُزَعِّلُ‎ (yuzaʕʕilu)

  1. (informal) to madden, to make surly

Conjugation

Noun

زَعَل (zaʕalm

  1. verbal noun of زَعِلَ (zaʕila) (form I)

Declension

Adjective

زَعِل (zaʕil)

  1. (informal) miffed, mad, surly

Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “زعل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 593
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “زعل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 238–239
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “زعل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1232
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “زعل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 438
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “زعل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 524