انفعال

Arabic

Root
ف ع ل (f-ʕ-l)

Etymology

Verbal noun of اِنْفَعَلَ (infaʕala).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.fi.ʕaːl/

Noun

اِنْفِعَال • (infiʕāl) m (plural اِنْفِعَالَات (infiʕālāt))

  1. verbal noun of اِنْفَعَلَ (infaʕala) (form VII)
  2. excitement, commotion, agitation
  3. passivity
  4. (biology) stimulation
  5. feasibility, practicableness
  6. evil impression

Declension

Descendants

  • Ottoman Turkish: انفعال (infial)

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “انفعال”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “فعل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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