تعلل

Arabic

Root
ع ل ل (ʕ-l-l)

Verb

تَعَلَّلَ • (taʕallala) V, non-past يَتَعَلَّلُ‎ (yataʕallalu)

  1. to divert oneself, to busy oneself, to occupy oneself, to distract oneself, to entertain oneself [+ بِ (object)]
  2. to give as a reason, to invoke, to cite, to excuse oneself with, to justify oneself with [+ بِ (object)]
    Synonym: تَذَرَّعَ (taḏarraʕa)

Conjugation

Noun

تَعَلُّل • (taʕallul) m (plural تَعَلُّلَات (taʕallulāt))

  1. verbal noun of تَعَلَّلَ (taʕallala) (form V)

Declension

Further reading

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “تعلل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 204
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “تعلل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2123
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “تعلل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 865
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