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فنل

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to be very limited in usage, primarily referring to specific terms for parts of an elephant's body and a descriptive term for a short woman. Its semantic range is narrow and not widely attested.

Derived headwords

الفِنْئِلnoun
  1. 1.
    elephant's neckclassical

    A term used to refer to the neck of an elephant.

الفِنْئِلnoun
  1. 1.
    short womanclassical

    A term, with the hamza, used to describe a woman who is short in stature.

Parallel reading

يقال لرقبة الفيل الفنئل
The neck of the elephant is called al-fan'il.
الفنئل، بالهمز، المرأة القصيرة
Al-fan'il, with the hamza, is a short woman.