علت

علت

See also: غلب‎, غلت‎, علب‎, and علة‎

Arabic

Verb

عَلَتْ • (ʿalat) (form I)

1. third-person feminine singular past active of عَلَا‎ (ʿalā)
2. third-person feminine singular past active of عَلَى‎ (ʿalā)

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عِلَّة‎ (ʿilla).

Noun

علت • (illet)

1. disease
2. misfortune
3. cause

Descendants

• Turkish: illet

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “illet”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

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Persian

Etymology

From Arabic عِلَّة‎ (ʿilla).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /illat/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /ɪllat/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /ellæt/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /illat/

Noun

عِلَّت • ('ellat) (plural عِلَل‎ ('elal) or عِلَّت‌ها‎ ('ellat-hâ))

1. cause, reason
2. (archaic) disease
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume V, verse 3629:

     ‏که طمع لاغر کند زرد و ذلیل / نیست او از علت ابدان علیل‎

     ke tama' lâğar konad zard o zalil / nist u az 'ellat-e abdân 'alil

     For [mere] hope makes him lean, pale, and wretched: he is not ill with bodily ailment.