ء ك ل

Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʾakal- (“to eat; food”). Compare Biblical Hebrew א־כ־ל (ʾ-k-l). and Akkadian '-k-l.

Root

ء ك ل • (ʔ-k-l)

1. related to food and eating
2. hence, related to eating away from, corrosion, itching and the like

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: أَكَلَ (ʔakala, “to eat, to consume, to swallow, to devour”), أَكِلَ (ʔakila, “to eat, to consume, to swallow, to devour”)
  • Verbal noun: أَكْل (ʔakl), مَأْكَل (maʔkal)
  • Active participle: آكِل (ʔākil)
  • Passive participle: مَأْكُول (maʔkūl)
• Form II: أَكَّلَ (ʔakkala, “to give something to eat, to feed”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأْكِيل (taʔkīl)
  • Active participle: مُؤَكِّل (muʔakkil)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَكَّل (muʔakkal)
• Form III: آكَلَ (ʔākala, “to eat together with another, share in another's meal”)
  • Verbal noun: مُؤَاكَلَةٌ (muʔākalatun)
  • Active participle: مُؤَاكِل (muʔākil)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَاكَل (muʔākal)
• Form IV: آكَلَ (ʔākala, “to give something to eat, to feed”)
  • Verbal noun: إِيكَال (ʔīkāl)
  • Active participle: مُؤْكِل (muʔkil)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْكَل (muʔkal)
• Form V: تَأَكَّلَ (taʔakkala, “to be devoured, to be consumed”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأَكُّل (taʔakkul)
  • Active participle: مُتَأَكِّل (mutaʔakkil)
• Form VI: تَآكَلَ (taʔākala, “to be devoured, to be consumed”)
  • Verbal noun: تَآكُل (taʔākul)
  • Active participle: مُتَآكِل (mutaʔākil)
• Form X: اِسْتَأْكَلَ (istaʔkala)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِئْكَال (istiʔkāl)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَأْكِل (mustaʔkil)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَأْكَل (mustaʔkal)

Nouns and adjectives

• أُكْل (ʔukl, “food, fruit”), أُكُل (ʔukul, “food, fruit”)
• أَكَّال (ʔakkāl), أَكُول (ʔakūl), أَكِيل (ʔakīl, “who eats much”)
• أَكْلَة (ʔakla, “a food”)
• أُكْلَة (ʔukla, “bit of food”)
• أَكِلَة (ʔakila, “a female camel which suffers itching from hair on hair or on her fetus; gangrene”)
• أُكَال (ʔukāl, “the state of a female camel which suffers itching from hair or hair on her fetus; cankering, decay”)
• إِكْلَة (ʔikla, “manner or state of eating”)
• أُكُولَة (ʔukūla) and أَكِيلَة (ʔakīla, “a sheep or goat set apart to be eaten”)
• مَأْكَل (maʔkal, “place or time for eating”)
• مَأْكَلَة (maʔkala, “provision; place for eating”)
• مِئْكَلَة (miʔkala, “vessel to eat from”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 62
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ء ك ل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 31
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ء ك ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 46–47
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ء ك ل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 43
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ء ك ل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 71–73
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ء ك ل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 69
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ء ك ل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 27

South Levantine Arabic

Root

ء ك ل • (transliteration needed)

1. Related to food and eating

Derived terms

Verbs and verb forms

• Form I: أكل (ʔakal, “to eat”)
  • Noun Form: أكل (ʔakl, “food; eating”)
  • Active participle: ماكل (mākel)
  • Passive participle: مأكول (maʔkūl)
• Form VI: اتّاكل (ittākal, “to be eaten; to be edible”)

Nouns

• أكلة (ʔakle, “dish”)
• أكّيل (ʔakkīl, “glutton”)
• مأكولات (maʔkūlāt, “foodstuffs”)