ر ه ل

Arabic

Etymology

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Root

ر ه ل • (r-h-l)

1. related to flaccidity

Derived terms

• Form I: رَهِلَ (rahila, “to be or become tremulous or flabby”)
  • Verbal noun: رَهَل (rahal)
  • Active participle: ?
• Form II: رَهَّلَ (rahhala, “to tender tremulous or flabby”)
  • Verbal noun: تَرْهِيل (tarhīl)
  • Active participle: مُرَهِّل (murahhil)
  • Passive participle: مُرَهَّل (murahhal)
• Form V: تَرَهَّلَ (tarahhala, “to be tremulous or flabby”)
  • Verbal noun: تَرَهُّل (tarahhul)
  • Active participle: مُتَرَهِّل (mutarahhil)

• رَهَل (rahal, “yellow fluid in the amniotic sac”)
• رِهَل (rihal, “clouds tender like dew”)
• رَهِل (rahil, “flabby, languid”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ر ه ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 203a
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ر ه ل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 940b
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ر ه ل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1171b–c
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ر ه ل”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎^[4] (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 802b
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ر ه ل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 421a