أسطول

Arabic

Etymology

An old borrowing of Ancient Greek στόλος (stólos).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔus.tˤuːl/

Noun

أُسْطُول (ʾusṭūl) m (plural أَسَاطِيلُ (ʾasāṭīlu))

  1. fleet; squadron

Declension

Further reading

  • Wehr, Hans (1979), أسطول”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

References

  1. Shelomo Dov Goitein, A Mediterranean Society: volume I (1967): "usṭūl [...] is derived from Greek stolos, 'fleet,' but designated in the Arabic of that period [the 1000s] a heavy warship"; and Studies in Islamic History and Institutions (1968): "the word usṭūl, which is, of course, the Greek stolos ('fleet'), but designates in the Arabic of that period one heavy warship".
  2. Manwel Mifsud, Loan Verbs in Maltese: A Descriptive and Comparative Study (1995): ""Ar[abic] has borrowed about 700 words from Greek [...]. Some (like [...] /ʾusṭūl/ 'fleet' < Gr στόλος) are of very old origin."
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