Arabic

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Root
ع ل ل (ʕ l l)
14 terms

Verb

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تَعَلَّلَ (taʕallala) V (non-past يَتَعَلَّلُ (yataʕallalu), verbal noun تَعَلُّل (taʕallul))

  1. to divert oneself, to busy oneself, to occupy oneself, to distract oneself, to entertain oneself [with بِ (bi)]
  2. to give as a reason, to invoke, to cite, to excuse oneself with, to justify oneself with [with بِ (bi)]
    Synonym: تَذَرَّعَ (taḏarraʕa)

Conjugation

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Noun

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تَعَلُّل (taʕallulm (plural تَعَلُّلَات (taʕallulāt))

  1. verbal noun of تَعَلَّلَ (taʕallala) (form V)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “تعلل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 204
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “تعلل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2123
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “تعلل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 865