Arabic

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Root
ن ق ل (n-q-l)

Etymology 1

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Verb

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نَاقَلَ (nāqala) III, non-past يُنَاقِلُ‎ (yunāqilu)

  1. to inform, to report
    • a. 869, Al-Jāḥiẓ, quoting Sahl ibn Hārūn, “رسالة سهل بن هارون”, in Muḥammad Fatḥī ʾAbū Bakr, editor, Al-Buḵalāʾ, 5th edition, Egyptian-Lebanese Publishing House, published 2021, →ISBN, page 52:
      قَالَ: «أَفَنَاقَلْتَهُ الْكَلَامَ وَفَاتَحْتَهُ الْأُمُورَ قَبْلَ أَنْ تُوصِلَهُ إِلَيَّ؟». قَالَ: «لَا».
      qāla: “ʔafanāqaltahu al-kalāma wafātaḥtahu l-ʔumūra qabla ʔan tūṣilahu ʔilayya?”. qāla: “lā”.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Etymology 2

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Derived from the active participle of نَقَلَ (naqala).

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Adjective

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نَاقِل (nāqil) (feminine نَاقِلَة (nāqila), masculine plural نَاقِلُونَ (nāqilūna), feminine plural نَاقِلَات (nāqilāt))

  1. active participle of نَقَلَ (naqala)
  2. mover, moving
  3. transmitting
  4. carrying, bearing
  5. delivering
  6. who quotes or cites
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Noun

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نَاقِل (nāqilm (plural نَوَاقِل (nawāqil))

  1. transporter
  2. (physics) conductor
  3. (physiology) transmitter
    نَاقِل عَصَبِيّnāqil ʕaṣabiyya neurotransmitter
  4. (medicine) transmitter, vector (of disease)
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Descendants
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  • Azerbaijani: naqil
  • Ottoman Turkish: ناقل (nakil)
  • Persian: ناقل