ع ل ل

Arabic

Root

ع ل ل • (ʕ-l-l)

1. related to weakness, malleability
2. related to ailment, defect, emptiness, not at full capacity or at the best condition
3. related to proferred reasons

Derived terms

• Form I: عَلَّ (ʕalla)
  • Verbal noun: عَلّ (ʕall), عَلَل (ʕalal)
  • Active participle: عَالّ (ʕāll)
  • Passive participle: مَعْلُول (maʕlūl)
• Form II: عَلَّلَ (ʕallala)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْلِيل (taʕlīl)
  • Active participle: مُعَلِّل (muʕallil)
  • Passive participle: مُعَلَّل (muʕallal)
• Form III: عَالَّ (ʕālla), عَالَلَ (ʕālala)
  • Verbal noun: مُعَالَلَة (muʕālala), عِلَال (ʕilāl)
  • Active participle: مُعَالّ (muʕāll), مُعَالِل (muʕālil)
  • Passive participle: مُعَالّ (muʕāll), مُعَالَل (muʕālal)
• Form IV: أَعَلَّ (ʔaʕalla)
  • Verbal noun: إِعْلَال (ʔiʕlāl)
  • Active participle: مُعِلّ (muʕill)
  • Passive participle: مُعَلّ (muʕall)
• Form V: تَعَلَّلَ (taʕallala)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَلُّل (taʕallul)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَلِّل (mutaʕallil)
• Form VI: تَعَالَّ (taʕālla), تَعَالَلَ (taʕālala)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَالُل (taʕālul)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَالّ (mutaʕāll), مُتَعَالِل (mutaʕālil)
  • Passive participle: مُتَعَالّ (mutaʕāll), مُتَعَالَل (mutaʕālal)
• Form VIII: اِعْتَلَّ (iʕtalla)
  • Verbal noun: اِعْتِلَال (iʕtilāl)
  • Active participle: مُعْتَلّ (muʕtall)
  • Passive participle: مُعْتَلّ (muʕtall)

• عَلَّة (ʕalla, “defect; reason”)
• عُلَالَة (ʕulāla, “thing serving diversion; regalement; solace”)
• تَعِلَّى (taʕillā, “pretext”)
• عَلِيل (ʕalīl, “sick”)

Further reading

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ع ل ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 204–205
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ع ل ل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2123–2125
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ع ل ل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 864–865