إلحاح

Arabic

Root
ل ح ح (l-ḥ-ḥ)

Etymology

Verbal noun of أَلَحَّ (ʔalaḥḥa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔil.ħaːħ/

Noun

إِلْحَاح • (ʔilḥāḥ) m

1. importunity, urgency, persistence

   Synonym: إِصْرَار (ʔiṣrār)

Declension

Declension of noun إِلْحَاح (ʔilḥāḥ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِلْحَاح ʔilḥāḥ	الْإِلْحَاح al-ʔilḥāḥ	إِلْحَاح ʔilḥāḥ
Nominative	إِلْحَاحٌ ʔilḥāḥun	الْإِلْحَاحُ al-ʔilḥāḥu	إِلْحَاحُ ʔilḥāḥu
Accusative	إِلْحَاحًا ʔilḥāḥan	الْإِلْحَاحَ al-ʔilḥāḥa	إِلْحَاحَ ʔilḥāḥa
Genitive	إِلْحَاحٍ ʔilḥāḥin	الْإِلْحَاحِ al-ʔilḥāḥi	إِلْحَاحِ ʔilḥāḥi

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: ilhah
• → Persian: الحاح
• → Ottoman Turkish: الحاح (ilhah)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “إلحاح”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen