علت

See also: غلب, غلت, علب, and علة

Arabic

Verb

عَلَتْ • (ʕalat) (form I)

1. third-person feminine singular past active of عَلَا (ʕalā)
2. third-person feminine singular past active of عَلَى (ʕalā)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عِلَّة (ʕilla).

Noun

علت • (illet)

1. disease
2. misfortune
3. cause

Descendants

• Turkish: illet

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “illet”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِلَّة (ʕilla).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔil.lat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪl.lät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪl.lät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪl.lät̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔil.lät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔel.læt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔil.lät̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	illat
Dari reading?	illat
Iranian reading?	ellat
Tajik reading?	illat

Noun

عِلَّت • ('ellat) (plural عِلَل ('elal) or عِلَّت‌ها ('ellat-hâ))

1. cause, reason
2. (archaic) disease
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume V, verse 3629:

     که طمع لاغر کند زرد و ذلیل
     نیست او از علت ابدان علیل

     ke tama' lâğar konad zard o zalil
     nist u az 'ellat-e abdân 'alil

     For [mere] hope makes him lean, pale, and wretched: he is not ill with bodily ailment.