ك ي ل

Arabic

Root

ك ي ل • (k-y-l)

1. related to dry measurement

Derived terms

• Form I: كَالَ (kāla, “to measure, to mete”)
  • Verbal noun: كَيْل (kayl), مَكَال (makāl), مَكِيل (makīl)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَكِيل (makīl)
• Form II: كَيَّلَ (kayyala, “to measure, to mete”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكْيِيل (takyīl)
  • Active participle: مُكَيِّل (mukayyil)
  • Passive participle: مُكَيَّل (mukayyal)
• Form III: كَايَلَ (kāyala, “to measure one’s qualities with the qualities of”)
  • Verbal noun: مُكَايَلَة (mukāyala)
  • Active participle: مُكَايِل (mukāyil)
  • Passive participle: مُكَايَل (mukāyal)
• Form V: تَكَيَّلَ (takayyala, “to be measured, to be meted”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَيُّل (takayyul)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَيِّل (mutakayyil)
• Form VIII: اِكْتَالَ (iktāla, “to measure; to buy to use for measure”)
  • Verbal noun: اِكْتِيَال (iktiyāl)
  • Active participle: مُكْتَال (muktāl)
  • Passive participle: مُكْتَال (muktāl)

• مِكْيَال (mikyāl) and مِكْيَل (mikyal, “measure”)
• كَيَّال (kayyāl, “he who takes measure”)
• كِيَالَة (kiyāla, “measurement”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ك ي ل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 505–506
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ك ي ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 75
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ك ي 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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 949–950
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ك ي ل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1133