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وعل

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Arabic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Semitic *waʕil-. The verb derives from the animal-name through the ideas of “ascending”, "to climb”, “to seek refuge in the mountains”, “to escape”, especially by climbing out of reach.

Verb

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وَعَلَ (waʕala) I (non-past يَعِلُ (yaʕilu), verbal noun وَعْل (waʕl))

  1. to tower, to stand high
  2. to be of high rank
  3. to overtop

Conjugation

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Noun

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وَعِل ,ماعز برّي

وَعِل or وَعْل (waʕil or waʕlm (plural أَوْعَال (ʔawʕāl) or وُعُول (wuʕūl))

  1. wild goat (Capra)
  2. antelope, ibex

Declension

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Noun

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وَعْل (waʕlm (plural أَوْعَال (ʔawʕāl) or وُعُول (wuʕūl))

  1. refuge, asylum, redoubt, place of escape
  2. eminent man, one able to provide sanctuary, a rescuer

Declension

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Noun

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وَعِل or وَعْل (waʕil or waʕlm (plural وِعْلَان (wiʕlān) or أَوْعَال (ʔawʕāl))

  1. (obsolete) name of the tenth lunar calendar month in Arabian paganism, called شَوَّال (šawwāl) in Islam

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References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “وعل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 484
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “وعل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1416–1417