ء ل و

ء ل و • (ʾ-l-w)

1. related to falling short and striving not to fall short

• Form I: أَلَا‎ (ʾalā, “to fall short, to neglect; to refrain, to desist”)
  • Verbal noun: أَلْو‎ (ʾalw), أُلُوّ‎ (ʾuluww), أُلِيّ‎ (ʾuliyy)
  • Active participle: آلٍ‎ (ʾālin, “falling short, being remiss”)
  • Passive participle: مَأْلُوّ‎ (maʾluww)
• Form I: أَلِيَ‎ (ʾaliya, “to have a fat tail”)
  • Verbal noun: أَلًى‎ (ʾalan)
  • Active participle: آلٍ‎ (ʾālin)
  • Passive participle: مَأْلُوّ‎ (maʾluww)
• Form IV: آلَى‎ (ʾālā, “to swear, to vow”)
  • Verbal noun: إِيلَاء‎ (ʾīlāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُؤْلٍ‎ (muʾlin)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْلًى‎ (muʾlan)
• Form VIII: اِئْتَلَى‎ (iʾtalā, “to fall short; to desist; to swear”), اِيتَلَى‎ (ītalā, “to fall short; to desist; to swear”)
  • Verbal noun: اِئْتِلَاء‎ (iʾtilāʾ), اِيتِلَاء‎ (ītilāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُؤْتَلٍ‎ (muʾtalin)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْتَلًى‎ (muʾtalan)

• أَلِيَّة‎ (ʾaliyya, “a falling short, remissness; oath”) (√ *أَلِيوَة (*ʾalīwa)); pl. أَلايَا‎ (ʾalāyā)
• أَلِيّ‎ (ʾaliyy, “one who swears much; having a fat tail”)
• أَلْوَة‎ (ʾalwa), أُلْوَة‎ (ʾulwa), إِلْوَة‎ (ʾilwa, “oath”)
• إلًى‎ (ʾilan, “benefit, favour, blessing”); pl. آلَاء‎ (ʾālāʾ)
• أَلْيَة‎ (ʾalya, “fat buttock, fat tail”); pl. أَلَيَات‎ (ʾalayāt) and أَلايَا‎ (ʾalāyā)

• Freytag, Georg (1830), “ء ل و”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 52–53
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ء ل و”, 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 (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 48–50
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ء ل و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 75–77, 83–87
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ء ل و”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 27–28, 30