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فتل

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Arabic

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Etymology

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From the root ف ت ل (f-t-l), from Proto-Semitic *patal-.

Verb

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فَتَلَ (fatala) I (non-past يَفْتِلُ (yaftilu), verbal noun فَتْل (fatl))

  1. to twist, to plait

Conjugation

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Verb

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فَتَّلَ (fattala) II (non-past يُفَتِّلُ (yufattilu), verbal noun تَفْتِيل (taftīl))

  1. to twist, to plait

Conjugation

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Noun

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فَتْل (fatlm

  1. verbal noun of فَتَلَ (fatala) (form I)
  2. operation of twisting
  3. product of twisting

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Maltese: fettel
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: fetilîn, fitilîn

References

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  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فتل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[1], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2333
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فتل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 942