فالج

Arabic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Aramaic פָּלְגָּא /‎ ܦܴܠܓܳܐ (pālgā), from Ancient Greek πλῆξις, πληγή (plêxis, plēgḗ).

Noun

فَالَج (fālaj) m (plural فَوَالِج (fawālij))

  1. phoresis, paralysis, stroke
Declension
Derived terms
  • فَالَجِيّ (fālajiyy, related to paralysis, phoresis)
  • فُلِجَ (fulija, to be paralyzed)
  • أَفْلَجَ (ʾaflaja, to paralyze)
  • اِنْفَلَجَ (infalaja, to be paralyzed)
Descendants
  • Persian: فلج (falaj, paralyzed)

Etymology 2

Adjective

فَالِج (fālij) (feminine فَالِجَة (fālija), masculine plural فَالِجُون (fālijūn), feminine plural فَالِجَات (fālijāt))

  1. active participle of فَلَجَ (falaja)
Declension

References

  • Corriente, Federico (2008), “فالج”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 108–109
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), فالج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 277
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 263–264
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 82
  • Vollers, Karl (1897), “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 51, page 300
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