إبليز

Arabic

FWOTD – 17 August 2019

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πηλός (pēlós, “clay”), or ἰλύς (ilús, “mud, slime”) with the Coptic ⲡⲓ- (pi-) masculine singular definite article, though ἰλύς (ilús, “mud, slime”) is feminine and would require ϯ- (ti-); originally this word was applied particularly to the alluvial deposit of the Nile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔib.liːz/

Noun

إِبْلِيز • (ʔiblīz) m

1. the sludge left behind by a river that has retreated, alluvium

   Synonyms: طَمْي (ṭamy), غَرِين (ḡarīn)

   • 1203, عبد اللطيف بن يوسف البغدادي [ʿAbd-al-Laṭīf Ibn Yūsuf al-Baġdādīy], edited by Joseph White, Compendium memorabilium Aegypti‎^[1], published 1789 ^GB and 1800 ^Archive, page 3 1789, page 6 1800:

     إن أرض مصر رملية لا تصلح للزراعة، لكنه يأتيها طين أسود علك فيه دسومة كثيرة يسمى الإيليز؛ يأتيها من بلاد السودان مختلطًا بماء النيل عند مده، فيستقر الطين، وينضب الماء، فيحرث ويزرع. وكل سنة يأتيها طين جديد، ولهذا يزرع جميع أراضيها ولا يراح شيء منها، كما يفعل في العراق والشام.

     The land of Egypt is sandy and unsuitable for agriculture, but to it comes a black viscose mud of much richness called iblīz; it comes from the lands of the Sudan mingled with Nile water at rising tide, and the mud having settled and the water having drained one can plough and sow. And every year new mud comes to it and most of the regions of Egypt are sown by this, and it wanes by no jot, unlike it does in Iraq or Syria.

   • 2011 September 16, “«المخصيون».. جنس بشري منقطع النسل خدموا «نساء البلاط» وقصور السلاطين”, in الرياض‎^[2], archived from the original on 6 March 2019:

     ويدهنون مكان الجرح بعجينة من الطين الإبليز والزيت.

     wa yudahhinūna makāna al-gurḥi bi ʿajīnatin min aṭ-ṭīni, al-ʾiblīzi, wa az-zayti.

     And they anoint the place of the wound with a paste of clay, sludge, and oil.

Declension

Declension of noun إِبْلِيز (ʔiblīz)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِبْلِيز ʔiblīz	الْإِبْلِيز al-ʔiblīz	إِبْلِيز ʔiblīz
Nominative	إِبْلِيزٌ ʔiblīzun	الْإِبْلِيزُ al-ʔiblīzu	إِبْلِيزُ ʔiblīzu
Accusative	إِبْلِيزًا ʔiblīzan	الْإِبْلِيزَ al-ʔiblīza	إِبْلِيزَ ʔiblīza
Genitive	إِبْلِيزٍ ʔiblīzin	الْإِبْلِيزِ al-ʔiblīzi	إِبْلِيزِ ʔiblīzi

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “إبليز”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 152
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “إبليز”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 248
• Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[5] (in German), volume 51, page 294
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “إبليز”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 3