إبليس
See also: ابلیس
Arabic
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Etymology
[edit]Theorised to come from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “devil, accuser, slanderer”). Alternatively, it has been maintained to originate from the trilateral root ب ل س (b-l-s) with the meaning of "despairing [of God's mercy] or confounded [and unable to see the right course]" from the verb أَبْلَسَ (ʔablasa). This would, however, require the trilateral root to take the form if'īl which, excepting إحليل, is usually associated with words of non-Arabic origin (see إدريس, إكليل, إنجيل, إبريز, and إبريق).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]إِبْلِيس • (ʔiblīs) m
- (religion) Iblis, Satan; the Devil.
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:34:
- وَإِذْ قُلْنَا لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ ٱسْجُدُوا لِآدَمَ فَسَجَدُوا إِلَّا إِبْلِيسَ أَبَى وَٱسْتَكْبَرَ وَكَانَ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ
- waʔiḏ qulnā lilmalāʔikati sjudū liʔādama fasajadū ʔillā ʔiblīsa ʔabā wastakbara wakāna mina l-kāfirīna
- And [mention] when We said to the angels, "Prostrate before Adam"; so they prostrated, except for Iblees. He refused and was arrogant and became of the disbelievers.
Declension
[edit]Declension of noun إِبْلِيس (ʔiblīs)
| Singular | basic singular diptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | — | إِبْلِيس ʔiblīs |
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| Nominative | — | إِبْلِيسُ ʔiblīsu |
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| Accusative | — | إِبْلِيسَ ʔiblīsa |
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| Genitive | — | إِبْلِيسَ ʔiblīsa |
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Related terms
[edit]- إِبْلِيسِيّ (ʔiblīsiyy)
- شَيْطَان (šayṭān)
Descendants
[edit]- → Azerbaijani: iblis
- → Bashkir: иблис (iblis)
- → English: Iblis, Iblees, Eblis
- → Indonesian: iblis
- → Kazakh: ібіліс (ıbılıs)
- → Kyrgyz: ибилис (ibilis)
- → Northern Kurdish: îblîs
- → Ottoman Turkish: ابلیس (iblis)
- > Turkish: iblis (inherited)
- → Swahili: Ibilisi
- → Tatar: иблис (iblis)
- → Toba Batak: ᯘᯪᯅᯬᯞᯪᯘ᯲ (sibolis)
- → Uyghur: ئىبلىس (iblis)
- → Uzbek: iblis
- → Yoruba: bìlísì
References
[edit]- Lane, Edward William (1863) “إبليس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[1], London: Williams & Norgate