هيول

Arabic

Etymology

• From the root ه ي ل (h-y-l) in the sense of a pile or cluster of things together; piled sand, dust particles.
• Alternatively, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “stuff, matter, substance”, literally “wood, raw material”).
• Or combined, maybe a phono-semantic matching from Ancient Greek from the root ه ي ل (h-y-l).

Noun

هَيُول • (hayūl) m (usually uncountable)

1. matter; particles; plasma

Declension

Declension of noun هَيُول (hayūl)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	هَيُول hayūl	الْهَيُول al-hayūl	هَيُول hayūl
Nominative	هَيُولٌ hayūlun	الْهَيُولُ al-hayūlu	هَيُولُ hayūlu
Accusative	هَيُولًا hayūlan	الْهَيُولَ al-hayūla	هَيُولَ hayūla
Genitive	هَيُولٍ hayūlin	الْهَيُولِ al-hayūli	هَيُولِ hayūli

Derived terms

• هَيُولِيّ (hayūliyy)
• هَيُولَانِيّ (hayūlāniyy)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “هيول”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 425
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “هيول”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1369