ف ل و

Arabic

Etymology

Probably extended from ف ل ل (f-l-l), as is ف ل ت (f-l-t).

Root

ف ل و • (f-l-w)

1. related to lack of nourishing water

Derived terms

• Form I: فَلَا (falā, “to withdraw from sucking; to wean”)
  • Verbal noun: فَلْو (falw)
  • Active participle: فَالٍ (fālin)
  • Passive participle: مَفْلُوّ (mafluww)
• Form IV: أَفْلَى (ʔaflā, “to have colts that have been ablacted; to enter the desert”)
  • Verbal noun: إِفْلَاء (ʔiflāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُفْلٍ (muflin)
  • Passive participle: مُفْلًى (muflan)
• Form VIII: اِفْتَلَى (iftalā, “to withdraw from sucking; to wean”)
  • Verbal noun: اِفْتِلَاء (iftilāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُفْتَلٍ (muftalin)
  • Passive participle: مُفْتَلًى (muftalan)

• فِلْو (filw) or فَلَوّ (falaww) or فُلَوّ (fulaww, “colt, foal, that has been ablactated”)
• فَلًا (falan, “waterless desert”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 984
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ف ل و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2445
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ف ل و”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 372–373
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ف ل و”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 981