فلاة

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Arabic

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Root
ف ل و (f l w)
5 terms

Pronunciation

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Noun

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فَلَاة (falāhf (singulative, plural أَفْلَاء (ʔaflāʔ), paucal فَلَوَات (falawāt))

  1. singulative of فَلًا (falan): a waterless desert; a wilderness
    Synonyms: صَحْرَاء (ṣaḥrāʔ); see also Thesaurus:صحراء
    صَرْخَةٌ فِي فَلَاةٍṣarḵatun fī falātina voice in the wilderness
    • a. 620, Hadith:
      وَلَأَنْ أَمْسَحَ عَلَى ظَهْرِ عَابِرٍ بِالْفَلَاةِ ، أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَمْسَحَ عَلَيْهِمَا
      walaʔan ʔamsaḥa ʕalā ẓahri ʕābirin bi-l-falāti , ʔaḥabbu ʔilayya min ʔan ʔamsaḥa ʕalayhimā
      to wipe on back of crosser of wilderness, is better to me to wipe on them
    • 13th century, Saʿdī aš-Šīrāzī, دیوان سعدی [Dīwān of Saʿdī]:
      سَل الْمَصَانِعَ رَكْبًا تَهِيمُ فِي الْفَلَوَاتِ
      sal al-maṣāniʕa rakban tahīmu fī l-falawāti
      Ask the wells about a caravan dying of thirst in the waterless deserts

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References

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  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فلاة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[1], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2445
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “فلاة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 373
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فلاة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 981