م ح ل

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 (ʾamḥala, “to become sterile and dry out; to labour from scarcity of food”)
  • Verbal noun: إِمْحَال‎ (ʾimḥāl)
  • 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 (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 (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 (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, London: W.H. Allen, page 967
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “م ح ل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (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