See also: اليه and إلية

Arabic edit

 
Some breeds of sheep are bred for their fat tails.

Etymology 1 edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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.
Declension edit
Descendants edit
  • North Levantine Arabic: لِيّة (liyye)
  • South Levantine Arabic: لِيّة (liyya)

Etymology 2 edit

Root
ء ل و (ʔ-l-w)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

أَلِيَّة (ʔaliyyaf (plural أَلَايَا (ʔalāyā)) (obsolete)

  1. a falling short, remissness
  2. oath
Declension edit

Further reading edit

  • 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