فتل

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ف ت ل (f-t-l), from Proto-Semitic *patal-.

Verb

فَتَلَ • (fatala) I, non-past يَفْتِلُ‎ (yaftilu)

  1. to twist, to plait

Conjugation

Verb

فَتَّلَ • (fattala) II, non-past يُفَتِّلُ‎ (yufattilu)

  1. to twist, to plait

Conjugation

Noun

فَتْل • (fatl) m

  1. verbal noun of فَتَلَ (fatala) (form I)
  2. operation of twisting
  3. product of twisting

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: fettel
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: fetilîn, fitilîn

References

  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فتل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2333
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فتل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 942
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