فالج

Arabic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Aramaic פָּלְגָּא / ܦܴܠܓܳܐ (pālgā), from Ancient Greek πλῆξις, πληγή (plêxis, plēgḗ).

Noun

فَالَج • (fālaj) m (plural فَوَالِج (fawālij))

  1. phoresis, paralysis, stroke
Declension
Derived terms
  • فَالَجِيّ (fālajiyy, related to paralysis, phoresis)
  • فُلِجَ (fulija, to be paralyzed)
  • أَفْلَجَ (ʔaflaja, to paralyze)
  • اِنْفَلَجَ (infalaja, to be paralyzed)
Descendants
  • Persian: فلج (falaj, paralyzed)

Etymology 2

Root
ف ل ج (f-l-j)

Adjective

فَالِج • (fālij) (feminine فَالِجَة (fālija), masculine plural فَالِجُونَ (fālijūna), feminine plural فَالِجَات (fālijāt))

  1. active participle of فَلَجَ (falaja)
Declension

Etymology 3

Root
ف ل ج (f-l-j)

From the ف ل ج (f-l-j), imagining the two humps as representing a split.

Noun

فَالِج • (fālij) m (plural فَوَالِج (fawālij))

  1. Bactrian camel
Declension

References

  • Corriente, Federico (2008) “فالج”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 108–109
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “فالج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 277
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 263–264
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 82
  • Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 51, page 300

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَالَج (fālaj).

Pronunciation

Noun

فالِج • (fālij) m (Hindi spelling फ़ालिज)

  1. paralysis, stroke, hemiplegia
  2. Bactrian camel
  • مفلوج (maflūj)

References

  • فالج”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • فالج”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu فالج (fālij).

Noun

فالج (fālaj)

  1. paralytic disease
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