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الكءل

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns a specific type of financial transaction involving the exchange of debts. It also extends to descriptions of physical stature, specifically shortness, sometimes with added characteristics of stoutness or wide-set legs.

Derived headwords

الكألnoun
  1. 1.
    Debt exchange transactionclassical

    A transaction where one buys or sells a debt owed to him by a person, in exchange for a debt that person owes to another.

كالverb
  1. 1.
    To exchange debtsclassical

    To engage in the transaction of buying or selling a debt owed to oneself by one person, in exchange for a debt that person owes to another.

الكألةnoun
  1. 1.
    Debt exchangeclassical

    The act or instance of exchanging debts, as described in the root's primary meaning.

الكؤولةnoun
  1. 1.
    Debt exchangeclassical

    An alternative form for the noun denoting the act or instance of exchanging debts.

الكوأللadjective
  1. 1.
    Shortmodern

    Describing a person who is short in stature.

  2. 2.
    Short and stoutmodern

    Describing a person who is short, with added stoutness or thickness.

  3. 3.
    Short and wide-leggedmodern

    Describing a person who is short and has wide-set legs (fajh).

المكوئلadjective
  1. 1.
    Shortmodern

    A descriptive term for someone who is short.

  2. 2.
    Short and stoutmodern

    Indicating shortness combined with stoutness.

  3. 3.
    Short and wide-leggedmodern

    Describing shortness along with a wide stance or spread legs.

اكوألverb
  1. 1.
    To be shortmodern

    To have the characteristic of being short in stature.

  2. 2.
    To be short and stoutmodern

    To possess the quality of being short and stout.

  3. 3.
    To be short and wide-leggedmodern

    To be short with wide-set legs.

Parallel reading

أن تشتري أو تبيع دينا لك على رجل بدين له على آخر
To buy or sell a debt owed to you by a man, for a debt that he owes to another.
كالكألة والكؤولة
Like al-ka'alah and al-ku'ulah.
والكوألل، كسفرجل، والمكوئل، كمشمعل: القصير
And al-ku'allul, like safarjal, and al-maku'il, like sham'al: the short one.
أو مع غلظ
Or with stoutness.
أو مع فحج
Or with wide-set legs.
وقد اكوأل
And he has become short.