Arabic

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Etymology

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First attested as Old South Arabian 𐩧𐩣𐩡 (rml). An extension of the root ر م م (r-m-m).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /raml/

Noun

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رَمْل (ramlm (plural رِمَال (rimāl))

  1. (uncountable) sand
  2. ellipsis of عِلْم الرَمْل (ʕilm ar-raml, geomancy).
  3. (obsolete) verbal noun of رَمَلَ (ramala) (form I)

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Noun

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رَمَل (ramalm (plural أَرْمَال (ʔarmāl)) (obsolete)

  1. weak rain
  2. a certain mode of music
  3. verbal noun of رَمَلَ (ramala) (form I)

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Adjective

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رَمِل (ramil)

  1. sandy

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رَمَلَ (ramala) I (non-past يَرْمُلُ (yarmulu), verbal noun رَمْل (raml)) (obsolete)

  1. to mix sand into
  2. to plait together, to braid, or to cover with plaited ornaments

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رَمَلَ (ramala) I (non-past يَرْمُلُ (yarmulu), verbal noun رَمَل (ramal) or رَمَلَان (ramalān) or مَرْمَل (marmal)) (obsolete)

  1. to go forward in a kind of trotting pace

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رَمَّلَ (rammala) II (non-past يُرَمِّلُ (yurammilu), verbal noun تَرْمِيل (tarmīl))

  1. to pour sand into
  2. to defile, to smear, to adulterate etc.

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References

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  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 559
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “رمل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 558
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “رمل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 195–196
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “رمل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 928–929
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “رمل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1159–1161
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “رمل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 418
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “رمل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 500

Hijazi Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic رَمْل (raml).

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رمل (ramilm (construct state رَمْل (raml), plural رِمَال (rimāl))

  1. sand

South Levantine Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic رَمْل (raml).

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Noun

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رمل (ramlm

  1. sand