Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

From the root ق ل ل (q-l-l), from which also قَلِيل (qalīl).

Verb edit

قَلَّ (qalla) I, non-past يَقِلُّ‎ (yaqillu)

  1. to be few, to be little
  2. to become few, to become little
Conjugation edit

Verb edit

قَلَّ (qalla) I, non-past يَقِلُّ‎ (yaqillu)

  1. to raise
  2. to carry
    • 2017 September 30, “تحطم طائرة عسكرية يسفر عن سقوط عشرات القتلى في الكونغو الديموقراطية”, in AlQuds.com[3], archived from the original on 30 September 2017:
      .الطائرة التي كانت قد اقلعت متوجهة الى كيفو وكانت تقل عشرات الاشخاص
      The plane which had started in direction to Kivu carried tens of persons.
Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

قُلْ (qul) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of قَالَ (qāla)

Chagatai edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kul.[1]

Noun edit

قل (qul)

  1. slave

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Uzbek: qul
  • Uyghur: قۇل (qul)

(via possessed form قلی):

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kul”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Hijazi Arabic edit

Root
ق ل ل
4 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic قَلَّ (qalla).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

قَلّ (gall) I (non-past يِقِل (yigill))

  1. to be few, to be little
  2. to become few, to become little

Conjugation edit

    Conjugation of قل (gall)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m قلّيت (gallēt) قلّيت (gallēt) قلّ (gall) قلّينا (gallēna) قلّيتوا (gallētu) قلّوا (gallu)
f قلّيتي (gallēti) قلّت (gallat)
non-past m أقلّ (ʔagill) تقلّ (tigill) يقلّ (yigill) نقلّ (nigill) تقلّوا (tigillu) يقلّوا (yigillu)
f تقلّي (tigilli) تقلّ (tigill)
imperative m قلّ (gill) قلّوا (gillu)
f قلّي (gilli)

Old Anatolian Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kul.[1]

Noun edit

قل (qul)

  1. slave

Descendants edit

(via possessed form قلی):

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kul”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill