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فالج

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Arabic

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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فَالَج (fālajm (plural فَوَالِج (fawālij))

  1. phoresis, paralysis, stroke
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Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Persian: فلج (falaj, paralyzed)

Etymology 2

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Root
ف ل ج (f l j)
2 terms

Adjective

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فَالِج (fālij) (feminine فَالِجَة (fālija), masculine plural فَالِجُونَ (fālijūna), feminine plural فَالِجَات (fālijāt))

  1. active participle of فَلَجَ (falaja)
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Etymology 3

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Root
ف ل ج (f l j)
2 terms

From the ف ل ج (f-l-j), imagining the two humps as representing a split.

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Noun

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فَالِج (fālijm (plural فَوَالِج (fawālij))

  1. Bactrian camel
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References

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  • 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[1] (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[2] (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[3] (in German), volume 51, page 300

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian فَالَج (fālaj), from Arabic فَالَج (fālaj). First attested in c. 1665 as Middle Hindi فالج (falj).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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فالِج (fālijm (Hindi spelling फ़ालिज)

  1. (pathology) paralysis, palsy (ie. hemiplegia)
  2. Bactrian camel

Declension

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    Declension of فالج
singular plural
direct فالِج (fālij) فالِج (fālij)
oblique فالِج (fālij) فالِجوں (fālijõ)
vocative فالِج (fālij) فالِجو (fālijo)

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ فالج”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

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Ushojo

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Etymology

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From Urdu فالج (fālij).

Noun

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فالج (fālaj)

  1. paralytic disease