ف ل و
Arabic
editEtymology
editProbably extended from ف ل ل (f-l-l), as is ف ل ت (f-l-t).
Root
editف ل و • (f-l-w)
- related to lack of nourishing water
Derived terms
edit- Form I: فَلَا (falā, “to withdraw from sucking; to wean”)
- Form IV: أَفْلَى (ʔaflā, “to have colts that have been ablacted; to enter the desert”)
- Form VIII: اِفْتَلَى (iftalā, “to withdraw from sucking; to wean”)
- Verbal noun: اِفْتِلَاء (iftilāʔ)
- Active participle: مُفْتَلٍ (muftalin)
- Passive participle: مُفْتَلًى (muftalan)
- فِلْو (filw) or فَلَوّ (falaww) or فُلَوّ (fulaww, “colt, foal, that has been ablactated”)
- فَلًا (falan, “waterless desert”)
References
edit- 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 984
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ف ل و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[1], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2445
- Freytag, Georg (1835) “ف ل و”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 372–373
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ف ل و”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 981