فلو

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ف ل و (f-l-w).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /filw/, IPA(key): /fa.luww/, IPA(key): /fu.luww/

Noun

فِلْو or فَلُوّ or فُلُوّ (filw or faluww or fuluww) m (plural أَفْلَاء (ʾaflāʾ) or فَلَاوَى (falāwā) or فِلَاء (filāʾ))

  1. foal, colt (a preadult horse or ass which has been weaned)
    • 7th century CE, Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik, 58:
      مَنْ تَصَدَّقَ بِصَدَقَةٍ مِنْ كَسْبٍ طَيِّبٍ - وَلَا يَقْبَلُ اللَّهُ إِلَّا طَيِّبًا - كَانَ إِنَّمَا يَضَعُهَا فِي كَفِّ الرَّحْمَنِ يُرَبِّيهَا كَمَا يُرَبِّي أَحَدُكُمْ فَلُوَّهُ أَوْ فَصِيلَهُ حَتَّى تَكُونَ مِثْلَ الْجَبَلِ.
      man taṣaddaqa biṣadaqatin min kasbin ṭayyibin - walā yaqbalu l-lahu ʾillā ṭayyiban - kāna ʾinnamā yaḍaʿuhā fī kaffi r-raḥmani yurabbīhā kamā yurabbī ʾaḥadukum faluwwahu ʾaw faṣīlahu ḥattā takūna miṯla l-jabali.
      Whoever gives handout from good earning – and Allah only accepts the good – it is as if he placed it in the palm of the Merciful to raise it, as one of you raises his foal or young camel until it is like the mountain.

Declension

Noun

فَلْو (falw) m

  1. verbal noun of فَلَا (falā) (form I)

Declension

References

  • Lane, Edward William (1863), فلو”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2445
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), فلو”, 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 373
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), فلو”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 981
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