ع ق ل

ع ق ل • (ʿ-q-l)

1. related to taking and understanding

• Form I: عَقَلَ‎ (ʿaqala, “to hobble a camel, to arrest, to pay blood money to have intelligence, be reasonable, to realize, understand”)
  • Verbal noun: عَقْل‎ (ʿaql, “blood money; sense, sentience, reason, understanding, comprehension, discernment, insight, rationality, mind, intellect, intelligence”)
  • Active participle: عَاقِل‎ (ʿāqil, “understanding, reasonable, sensible, rational, discerning, intelligent, prudent, wise, in full possession of one's mental faculties”)
  • Passive participle: مَعْقُول‎ (maʿqūl, “reasonable, sensible, intelligible, plausible, logical, rational”)
• Form II: عَقَّلَ‎ (ʿaqqala, “to make reasonable, bring to reason”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْقِيل‎ (taʿqīl)
  • Active participle: مُعَقِّل‎ (muʿaqqil)
  • Passive participle: مُعَقَّل‎ (muʿaqqal)
• Form V: تَعَقَّلَ‎ (taʿaqqala, “to be or become reasonable, sensible, rational, intelligent, prudent, wise; to comprehend, grasp”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَقُّل‎ (taʿaqqul, “understanding, discernment, prudence, wisdom”)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَقِّل‎ (mutaʿaqqil)
  • Passive participle: مُتَعَقَّل‎ (mutaʿaqqal)
• Form VIII: اِعْتَقَلَ‎ (iʿtaqala, “to arrest, apprehend, detain; to seize, impound”)
  • Verbal noun: اِعْتِقَال‎ (iʿtiqāl, “arrest, detention, internment, cramp”)
  • Active participle: مُعْتَقِل‎ (muʿtaqil)
  • Passive participle: مُعْتَقَل‎ (muʿtaqal, “concentration camp”)

• عَقْلِيّ‎ (ʿaqliyy, “reasonable, rational, mental, intellectual; rationalist, intellectual”)
  • عَقْلِيَّة‎ (ʿaqliyya, “mentality”)
• عَقْلَانِيّ‎ (ʿaqlāniyy, “rational, reasonable”)
• عُقْلَة‎ (ʿuqla, “knot, knob, node, joint, knuckle”)
• عِقَال‎ (ʿiqāl, “hobble”)
• عَقُول‎ (ʿaqūl, “understanding, reasonable, sensible, discerning, intelligent”)
  • أَعْقَل‎ (ʾaʿqal, “more reasonable, more intelligent”)
• عَقِيلَة‎ (ʿaqīla, “the best, the pick; wife”)
• مَعْقِل‎ (maʿqil, “refuge, sanctuary, fortress, bunker”)
• مَعْقُلَة‎ (maʿqula, “blood money”); plural مَعَاقِيل‎ (maʿāqīl)
• عَاقِلَة‎ (ʿāqila, “a Bedouin clan committed to pay bloodwite”)
• مَعْقُولِيَّة‎ (maʿqūliyya, “comprehensibility, intelligibility; logical, rational, or reasonable character; comprehension; common sense”)
• عَاقُول‎ (ʿāqūl, “Alhagi gen. et spp.”)

• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ع ق ل”, 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, pages 196–197
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ع ق ل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2113–2116
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ع ق ل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 737–738