ذليل

Arabic

Root
ذ ل ل (ḏ-l-l)

Etymology

فَعِيل (faʕīl)-type stative-verb derived from the active participle from the verb ذَلَّ (ḏalla).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ða.liːl/
  • Rhymes: -iːl

Adjective

ذَلِيل • (ḏalīl) (common plural ذِلَال (ḏilāl), masculine plural ذَلِيلُونَ (ḏalīlūna) or أَذِلَّاء (ʔaḏillāʔ) or أَذِلَّة (ʔaḏilla), feminine plural ذَلِيلَات (ḏalīlāt))

  1. servile
  2. despicable, very contemptible
  3. wormy

Declension

Descendants

  • Classical Persian: ذلیل (ḏalīl, zalīl)
    • Hindustani
      • Hindi: ज़लील (zalīl)
      • Urdu: ذَلِیل (zalīl)
    • Punjabi:
      Gurmukhi script: ਜ਼ਲੀਲ (zalīl)
      Shahmukhi script: ذلیل (zalīl)

References

  • Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “ذليل”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “ذليل”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ذليل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “ذليل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
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