See also: اليه and إلية

Arabic

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Some breeds of sheep are bred for their fat tails.

Etymology 1

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Root
ء ل ي (ʔ l y)
1 term

From Proto-West Semitic *ʔalyat- (fat tail, tail fat).

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Noun

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أَلْيَة (ʔalyaf (plural أَلَيَات (ʔalayāt) or أَلايَا (ʔalāyā))

  1. fat tail, tail fat
    • a. 1239, محمد بن حسن البغدادي, كتاب الطبيخ ومعجم المآكل الدمشقية[1], في السواذج على اختلافها, s.v. أطرية:
      صنْعتها: أن يُقطَّع اللحم السمين أوساطًا، وتُسلى الأَلْيَة ويُرمى بحَمِّها، ويُطرح اللحم على الدهن ويُعرَّق فيه،
      How it’s done: One cuts the fat meat into medium-size strips and dissolves the fat tail and hurls them with its heat, then one tosses the meat onto the oil and it gets marbled therein.
  2. (anatomy) buttock.
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Descendants
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  • North Levantine Arabic: لِيّة (liyye)
  • South Levantine Arabic: لِيّة (liyya)

Etymology 2

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ء ل و (ʔ l w)
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أَلِيَّة (ʔaliyyaf (plural أَلَايَا (ʔalāyā)) (obsolete)

  1. a falling short, remissness
  2. oath
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Further reading

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  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1930) “ألية”, in Jörg Kraemer, editor, Belegwörterbuch zur klassischen arabischen Sprache, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, published 1952–1953, Fascicles 1 and 2 (Only Alif), page 36b