تعلل

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ع ل ل (ʿ-l-l).

Verb

تَعَلَّلَ (taʿallala) V, non-past يَتَعَلَّلُ‎ (yataʿallalu)

  1. to divert oneself, to busy oneself, to occupy oneself, to distract oneself, to entertain oneself [+ بِ (object)]
  2. to give as a reason, to invoke, to cite, to excuse oneself with, to justify oneself with [+ بِ (object)]
    Synonym: تَذَرَّعَ (taḏarraʿa)

Conjugation

Noun

تَعَلُّل (taʿallul) m (plural تَعَلُّلَات (taʿallulāt))

  1. verbal noun of تَعَلَّلَ (taʿallala) (form V)

Declension

Further reading

  • Freytag, Georg (1835), تعلل”, 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), تعلل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2123
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), تعلل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 865
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