قل

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From the root ق ل ل (q-l-l), from which also قَلِيل (qalīl).

Verb[edit]

قَلَّ (qalla) I, non-past يَقِلُّ‎ (yaqillu)

  1. to be few, to be little
  2. to become few, to become little
Conjugation[edit]

Verb[edit]

قَلَّ (qalla) I, non-past يَقِلُّ‎ (yaqillu)

  1. to raise
  2. to carry
    • 2017 September 30, “تحطم طائرة عسكرية يسفر عن سقوط عشرات القتلى في الكونغو الديموقراطية”, in AlQuds.com[3], archived from the original on 30 September 2017:
      .الطائرة التي كانت قد اقلعت متوجهة الى كيفو وكانت تقل عشرات الاشخاص
      The plane which had started in direction to Kivu carried tens of persons.
Conjugation[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

قُلْ (qul) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of قَالَ (qāla)

Chagatai[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kul.[1]

Noun[edit]

قل (qul)

  1. slave

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Uzbek: qul
  • Uyghur: قۇل (qul)

(via possessed form قلی):

References[edit]

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kul”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Hijazi Arabic[edit]

Root
ق ل ل
4 terms

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic قَلَّ (qalla).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

قَلّ (gall) I (non-past يِقِل (yigill))

  1. to be few, to be little
  2. to become few, to become little

Conjugation[edit]

    Conjugation of قل (gall)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m قلّيت (gallēt) قلّيت (gallēt) قلّ (gall) قلّينا (gallēna) قلّيتوا (gallētu) قلّوا (gallu)
f قلّيتي (gallēti) قلّت (gallat)
non-past m أقلّ (ʔagill) تقلّ (tigill) يقلّ (yigill) نقلّ (nigill) تقلّوا (tigillu) يقلّوا (yigillu)
f تقلّي (tigilli) تقلّ (tigill)
imperative m قلّ (gill) قلّوا (gillu)
f قلّي (gilli)

Old Anatolian Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kul.[1]

Noun[edit]

قل (qul)

  1. slave

Descendants[edit]

(via possessed form قلی):

References[edit]

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kul”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill