لأي

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See also: لأى

Arabic

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Root
ل ء ي (l ʔ y)
3 terms

Pronunciation

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Noun

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لَأْي (laʔym

  1. verbal noun of لَأَى (laʔā, to be slow)
  2. slowness
  3. difficulty, hardship

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “لأي”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[1] (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 954
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “لأي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 905
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “لأي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN