ميل

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Arabic

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Etymology 1

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From م ي ل (m-y-l), meaning to incline, to bend, to lean.

Verb

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مَيِلَ (mayila) I (non-past يَمْيَلُ (yamyalu), verbal noun مَيَل (mayal))

  1. to be bent, to be tilted, to be slanted
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Verb

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مَيَّلَ (mayyala) II (non-past يُمَيِّلُ (yumayyilu), verbal noun تَمْيِيل (tamyīl))

  1. (transitive) to bend, to tilt
  2. to make (someone) inclined or sympathetic [with accusative ‘someone’, along with نَحْوَ (naḥwa) or إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘towards someone/something’]
  3. to make (someone) disinclined, to alienate [with accusative ‘someone’ and عَنْ (ʕan) ‘towards/from someone/something’]
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Noun

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مَيْل (maylm (plural مُيُول (muyūl))

  1. verbal noun of مَالَ (māla, to lean) (form I)
  2. inclination, tendency
  3. goodwill, sympathy
  4. taste, disposition, a mind for
Declension
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Descendants
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  • Maltese: mejl
  • Azerbaijani: meyil
  • Ottoman Turkish: میل (meyl, meyil)
    > Turkish: meyil (inherited)
  • Persian: میل (meyl)
  • Turkmen: meýil
  • Uyghur: مەيىل (meyil)
  • Uzbek: mayl

Noun

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مَيَل (mayalm

  1. verbal noun of مَيِلَ (mayila) (form I)
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Etymology 2

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From Latin mīlle passuum (literally a thousand of paces); compare Classical Syriac ܡܝܠܐ (mīlā) and Hebrew מַיְל (mayl). The reach of an eye originates from a folk etymology explaining the distance of a mile, literally the distance to which the eye reaches along land before the horizon curves out of sight.

Noun

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مِيل (mīlm (plural أَمْيَال (ʔamyāl) or مُيُول (muyūl))

  1. reach of the eye, as far as one can see
  2. mile
  3. milestone, column, obelisk, boundary stone
  4. hand of a sundial
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Descendants
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  • Ottoman Turkish: میل (mil)

Etymology 3

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From Ancient Greek μήλη (mḗlē, probe).

Noun

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مَيْل (maylm (plural مُيُول (muyūl)) (obsolete)

  1. a kind of metal probe in form of a needle for applying collyrium or other treatments
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Descendants
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  • Ottoman Turkish: میل (mil)

References

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  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 261
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ميل”, 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), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1174–1175
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 48

Etymology 4

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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مِيل (mīlm pl or f pl

  1. plural of أَمْيَل (ʔamyal, leaning to one side)

Etymology 5

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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مِيلَ (mīla) (form I) /miː.la/

  1. third-person masculine singular past passive of مَالَ (māla)