اعتل

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ع ل ل (ʿ-l-l).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iʕ.tal.la/

Verb

اِعْتَلَّ (iʿtalla) VIII, non-past يَعْتَلُّ‎ (yaʿtallu)

  1. to be affected by a defect; to be sick, to be morbid
  2. (grammar) to be weak, to be defective
  3. to give as a pretext, to justify oneself with [+ بِ (object)]

Conjugation

Further reading

  • Freytag, Georg (1835), اعتل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 204
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), اعتل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2123
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), اعتل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 865
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