م ح ل

Arabic

Root

م ح ل • (m-ḥ-l)

1. related to barrenness

Derived terms

• Form I: مَحَلَ (maḥala, “to injure by malignant insinuation, to intrigue against”), مَحِلَ (maḥila, “to injure by malignant insinuation, to intrigue against”), مَحُلَ (maḥula, “to injure by malignant insinuation, to intrigue against”)
  • Verbal noun: مَحْل (maḥl), مِحَال (miḥāl)
  • Active participle: مَاحِل (māḥil)
• Form I: مَحَلَ (maḥala, “to be sterile, to be barren”), مَحِلَ (maḥila, “to be sterile, to be barren”), مَحُلَ (maḥula, “to be sterile, to be barren”)
  • Verbal noun: مَحْل (maḥl), مُحُول (muḥūl), مَحَالَة (maḥāla)
  • Active participle: مَاحِل (māḥil)
• Form III: مَاحَلَ (māḥala, “to be hostile to, to betray”)
  • Verbal noun: مُمَاحَلَة (mumāḥala), مِحَال (miḥāl)
  • Active participle: مُمَاحِل (mumāḥil)
  • Passive participle: مُمَاحَل (mumāḥal)
• Form IV: أَمْحَلَ (ʔamḥala, “to become sterile and dry out; to labour from scarcity of food”)
  • Verbal noun: إِمْحَال (ʔimḥāl)
  • Active participle: مُمْحِل (mumḥil)
• Form V: تَمَحَّلَ (tamaḥḥala, “to intrigue for, to make of ruses for”)
  • Verbal noun: تَمَحُّل (tamaḥḥul)
  • Active participle: مُتَمَحِّل (mutamaḥḥil)
  • Passive participle: مُتَمَحَّل (mutamaḥḥal)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “م ح ل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 570–572
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “م ح ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 155–156
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “م ح ل”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1069–1070
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “م ح ل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 967
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “م ح ل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1189
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “م ح ل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 1050–1051