See also: دال

Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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ذَال (ḏālf (plural ذَالَات (ḏālāt))

  1. Name of the ninth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ذ ()), representing the sound /ð/
Declension
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Descendants
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  • Azerbaijani: zal
  • Classical Persian: ذَال (zāl)
  • Uzbek: zol

Etymology 2

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Verb

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ذَالَ (ḏāla) I (non-past يَذِيلُ (yaḏīlu), verbal noun ذَيْل (ḏayl))

  1. to drag (of a garment)
  2. to get a tail, or to have one's tail become long (of an animal)
  3. to raise one's tail (of an animal)
  4. to drag one's garments in arrogance (of a person)
  5. to strut (of a person)
  6. to be humiliated, to be despised (of a person)
  7. to become humble (of a person or one's condition)
  8. to become weak and emaciated from ill treatment
  9. to be pleased [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘with someone’]
  10. (transitive) to make (something) insignificant
Conjugation
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Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic ذَال (ḏāl).

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Readings
Classical reading? zāl
Dari reading? zāl
Iranian reading? zâl
Tajik reading? zol

Noun

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Dari ذال
Iranian Persian
Tajik зол

ذال (zâl)

  1. the letter ذ