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ذلل

Root entry · 26 derived lemmas

The root ذلل primarily concerns the concept of being submissive, humbled, or meek, often as the opposite of being proud or difficult. It extends to meanings of gentleness, ease, and tractability, applicable to both humans and animals, and also describes things that are made easy or accessible.

Derived headwords

الذُّلnoun
  1. 1.
    humiliation, degradationboth

    The state of being abased, disgraced, or brought low; the opposite of honor and might.

  2. 2.
    meanness, basenessclassical

    A low or ignoble quality; moral degradation.

  3. 3.
    gentleness, meeknessboth

    The quality of being soft, yielding, and easy to manage; the opposite of harshness or difficulty.

  4. 4.
    ease, tractabilityboth

    The state of being easily managed or handled, applied to things or situations.

ذَلَّverb
  1. 1.
    to be humbled, humiliatedboth

    To become submissive, degraded, or brought low in status or condition.

  2. 2.
    to be gentle, tractableboth

    To become soft, yielding, and easy to manage, applied to humans or animals.

ذِلَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    humiliation, degradationboth

    A state of being humbled or abased; disgrace.

  2. 2.
    meannessclassical

    A base or ignoble condition.

ذَلَالَةnoun
  1. 1.
    humiliation, degradationboth

    A state of being humbled or abased; disgrace.

مَذَلَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    humiliation, degradationboth

    A cause or state of being humbled, disgraced, or brought low.

ذَلِيلadjective
  1. 1.
    humble, humiliatedboth

    In a state of submission, degradation, or abasement.

  2. 2.
    gentle, tractableboth

    Soft, yielding, and easy to manage; not difficult.

أَذِلَّاءnoun
  1. 1.
    the humbled, the meekboth

    Plural of ذليل, referring to people who are in a state of humiliation or gentleness.

أَذِلَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    the humbled, the meekboth

    Plural of ذليل, referring to people who are in a state of humiliation or gentleness.

ذِلَالnoun
  1. 1.
    humiliation, degradationclassical

    A state of being humbled or abased.

أَذَلَّverb
  1. 1.
    to humiliate, degradeboth

    To cause someone to become humble, submissive, or disgraced.

  2. 2.
    to find someone humbleboth

    To perceive or discover someone to be in a state of humiliation.

اسْتَذَلَّهُverb
  1. 1.
    to deem someone humbleboth

    To perceive or consider someone to be in a state of humiliation or weakness.

  2. 2.
    to humiliate, degradeboth

    To cause someone to become humble, submissive, or disgraced.

تَذَلَّلَverb
  1. 1.
    to humble oneself, to submitboth

    To act in a submissive or meek manner; to show deference.

المُذِلُّname
  1. 1.
    The Humiliatorboth

    One of the names of God, referring to the one who inflicts humiliation upon whomever He wills.

ذَلُولadjective
  1. 1.
    gentle, tractableboth

    Easy to manage, handle, or train; not difficult or stubborn, applied to humans or animals.

  2. 2.
    easy, accessibleboth

    Made easy or readily available, applied to paths or things.

ذَلَّلَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to make gentle, tameboth

    To cause an animal or person to become tractable and easy to manage.

  2. 2.
    to make easy, facilitateboth

    To render something simple, accessible, or easy to accomplish.

ذُلُلnoun
  1. 1.
    gentle ones, tractable onesboth

    Plural of ذلول, referring to gentle or tractable beings.

ذُلُّلnoun
  1. 1.
    gentle ones, tractable onesboth

    Plural of ذلول, referring to gentle or tractable beings.

المُذَلَّلadjective
  1. 1.
    tamed, made gentleboth

    Having been made easy to manage or handle, especially referring to animals.

  2. 2.
    made easy, facilitatedboth

    Rendered simple, accessible, or easy to accomplish.

أَذْلَالnoun
  1. 1.
    paths, waysboth

    Routes or courses, especially those that are easy and well-trodden.

  2. 2.
    conditions, statesboth

    The circumstances or ways in which things occur or are managed.

ذَلْذَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to be loose, to hang downclassical

    To be loose or dangling, often referring to the lower parts of a garment.

ذَلَاذِلnoun
  1. 1.
    lower parts of a garmentclassical

    The parts of a long garment that hang down near the ground.

ذَلْذَلٌnoun
  1. 1.
    lower parts of a garmentclassical

    The parts of a long garment that hang down near the ground.

ذَلْذَلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    lower parts of a garmentclassical

    The parts of a long garment that hang down near the ground.

ذَلْذَلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    loosely hangingclassical

    The state of hanging loosely or dangling.

ذَنَازِنnoun
  1. 1.
    lower parts of a garmentclassical

    The parts of a long garment that hang down near the ground; a variant of ذلاذل.

ذَنَذَنnoun
  1. 1.
    lower parts of a garmentclassical

    The parts of a long garment that hang down near the ground; singular of ذناذن.

Parallel reading

الذُّل: نقيض العز
Humiliation: the opposite of might.
ذل يذل ذلا وذلة وذلالة ومذلة، فهو ذليل بين الذل والمذلة من قوم أذلاء وأذلة وذلال
He was humbled, he is humbled, with humiliation, degradation, and abasement; he is humiliated among the humiliated and the degraded, from a people who are humiliated, degraded, and abased.
وشاعر قوم أولي بغضة ... قمعت، فصاروا لثاما ذلالا
And a poet of a people of enmity... I suppressed them, so they became a humiliated veil.
وأذله هو وأذل الرجل: صار أصحابه أذلاء
And he humiliated him, and the man made his companions humiliated.
وأذله: وجده ذليلا
And he humiliated him: he found him humiliated.
واستذلوه: رأوه ذليلا
And they deemed him humiliated: they saw him as humiliated.
والذل: الخسة
And humiliation: baseness.
وتذلل له أي خضع
And he humbled himself to him, meaning he submitted.
هو الذي يلحق الذل بمن يشاء من عباده وينفي عنه أنواع العز جميعها
He is the one who inflicts humiliation upon whomever He wills from His servants and removes all types of might from them.
سينالهم غضب من ربهم وذلة في الحياة الدنيا
Anger from their Lord will befall them, and humiliation in this worldly life.
والذل، بالكسر: اللين وهو ضد الصعوبة
And al-dhull (with kasra): gentleness, which is the opposite of difficulty.
ذل يذل ذلا وذلا، فهو ذلول، يكون في الإنسان والدابة
He was gentle, he is gentle, with gentleness and ease; he is tractable, whether human or animal.
وما يك من عسرى ويسرى، فإنني ... ذلول بحاج المعتفين، أريب
And whatever there may be of hardship or ease, indeed I am... tractable to the needs of those who seek me, intelligent.
بعض الذل أبقى للأهل والمال
Some humiliation is more lasting for family and wealth.
اللهم اسقنا ذلل السحاب
O Allah, grant us the gentle clouds to drink.
واخفض لهما جناح الذل من الرحمة
And lower to them the wing of humility out of mercy.
أذلة على المؤمنين أعزة على الكافرين
Meek towards the believers, mighty against the disbelievers.
و ذللت قطوفها تذليلا
And its fruit clusters were made easy to reach, with ease.
فاسلكي سبل ربك ذللا
And follow the ways of your Lord, made easy.
ذلل الكرم: دليت عناقيده
The vines were made easy: their clusters were brought down.
كم من عذق مذلل لأبي الدحداح
How many a cluster made easy for Abu al-Dahdah!
أمور الله جارية على أذلالها
The affairs of God proceed according to their established ways.
وجارية أذلالها أي مجاريها وطرقها
And its established ways, meaning its courses and paths.
إذا رأيتموني أنفذ فيكم الأمر فأنفذوه على أذلاله
If you see me carrying out the command among you, then carry it out according to its established ways.
وركبوا ذل الطريق وهو ما مهد منه وذلل
And they rode the easy path, which is what is prepared and made easy of it.
حائط ذليل أي قصير
A humble wall, meaning short.
ورمح ذليل أي قصير
And a humble spear, meaning short.
وذلت القوافي للشاعر إذا سهلت
And the rhymes became easy for the poet when they were facilitated.
ذلاذل القميص: ما يلي الأرض من أسافله
The lower parts of the shirt: what is near the ground from its bottom.
يخرج من ثديه يتذلذل
It comes out of his chest, dangling.
وهي أسافل الثوب
And they are the lower parts of the garment.