See also: میل

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

From م ي ل (m-y-l), meaning to incline, to bend, to lean.

Verb edit

مَيِلَ (mayila) I, non-past يَمْيَلُ‎ (yamyalu)

  1. to have one side of the body inclined
Conjugation edit

Verb edit

مَيَّلَ (mayyala) II, non-past يُمَيِّلُ‎ (yumayyilu)

  1. to make [+direct object] inclined, sympathetic, favourably disposed to [+إِلَى (object)]
  2. to incline, tilt, bend, bow [+direct object]
  3. to make [+direct object] disinclined, averse, alienated, turned away from [+عَنْ (object)]
Conjugation edit

Noun edit

مَيْل (maylm (plural مُيُول (muyūl))

  1. verbal noun of مَالَ (māla, to lean) (form I)
  2. inclination, tendency
  3. goodwill, sympathy
  4. taste, disposition, a mind for
Declension edit
Descendants edit
  • Azerbaijani: meyil
  • Ottoman Turkish: میل (meyl, meyil)
    > Turkish: meyil (inherited)
  • Persian: میل (meyl)
  • Uyghur: مەيىل (meyil)
  • Uzbek: mayl

Noun edit

مَيَل (mayalm

  1. verbal noun of مَيِلَ (mayila) (form I)
Declension edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Latin mīlle passuum (literally a thousand of paces); compare Classical Syriac ܡܝܠܐ (mīlā) and Hebrew מַיְל (mayl). The reach of an eye originates from a folk etymology explaining the distance of a mile, literally the distance to which the eye reaches along land before the horizon curves out of sight.

Noun edit

مِيل (mīlm (plural أَمْيَال (ʔamyāl) or مُيُول (muyūl))

  1. reach of the eye, as far as one can see
  2. mile
  3. milestone, column, obelisk, boundary stone
  4. hand of a sundial
Declension edit
Descendants edit
  • Ottoman Turkish: میل (mil)

Etymology 3 edit

From Ancient Greek μήλη (mḗlē, probe).

Noun edit

مَيْل (maylm (plural مُيُول (muyūl)) (obsolete)

  1. a kind of metal probe in form of a needle for applying collyrium or other treatments
Declension edit
Descendants edit
  • Ottoman Turkish: میل (mil)

References edit

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 261
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ميل”, 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 (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1174–1175
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 48

Etymology 4 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective edit

مِيل (mīlm pl or f pl

  1. plural of أَمْيَل (ʔamyal, leaning to one side)

Etymology 5 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

مِيلَ (mīla) (form I)

  1. third-person masculine singular past passive of مَالَ (māla)