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قيل

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the midday period, specifically the heat and the nap taken during it. It also extends to concepts of breaking or rescinding contracts, and resemblance.

Derived headwords

القائلةnoun
  1. 1.
    midday, noonboth

    midday, noon

قَالَverb
  1. 1.
    he said, he says, sayingboth

    he said, he says, saying

  2. 2.
    he said, he says, saying, a saying, a statement, a speechboth

    he said, he says, saying, a saying, a statement, a speech

  3. 3.
    sleeping at noonboth

    sleeping at noon

قيلولةnoun
  1. 1.
    sleeping at noonboth

    sleeping at noon

قيلاnoun
  1. 1.
    midday napclassical

    A variant masdar for the midday nap.

مقيلاnoun
  1. 1.
    midday napclassical

    A variant masdar for the midday nap.

قائلadjective
  1. 1.
    one who sleeps at noonboth

    one who sleeps at noon

قيلnoun
  1. 1.
    plural of qāʾilboth

    plural of qāʾil

قيلهverb
  1. 1.
    he gave him to drink at middayboth

    he gave him to drink at midday

تقيلverb
  1. 1.
    to drink middayclassical

    To drink at midday.

  2. 2.
    to resembleclassical

    To be similar to or resemble one's father.

مَقِيلnoun
  1. 1.
    place of siestaboth

    place of siesta

قيلname
  1. 1.
    plural of qāʾilboth

    plural of qāʾil

قيلةname
  1. 1.
    he gave him to drink at middayboth

    he gave him to drink at midday

إقالةnoun
  1. 1.
    he cancelled the saleboth

    he cancelled the sale

أَقَلْتُهُverb
  1. 1.
    to rescind a saleboth

    To annul or cancel a sale agreement.

قَلْتُهُverb
  1. 1.
    to rescind a saleclassical

    A rare variant of 'to rescind a sale'.

استقالverb
  1. 1.
    to seek rescissionboth

    To ask for a sale agreement to be rescinded.

قيالname
  1. 1.
    Qiyalclassical

    A tall mountain in the desert.

Parallel reading

أتانا عند القائلة
He came to us at midday.
وهي النوم في الظهيرة
And it is the sleep during the midday.
قال يقيل قيلولة، وقيلا، ومقيلا
He said: he naps a midday nap, a midday nap, a midday nap.
وهو شاذ
And it is irregular.
فهو قائل وقوم قيل
So he is napping and a people napping.
وما أكلأ قائلته
And 'He did not protect his midday nap' is said.
ولا يقال ما أقيله
And 'He did not protect his midday nap' is not said.
كما قالوا: تركت ولم يقولوا ودعت، لا لعلة
As they said: 'I left' and did not say 'I bid farewell', not for a reason.
والقيل أيضا: شرب نصف النهار
And 'al-qayl' also means: drinking at midday.
يقال: قيله فتقيل
It is said: He gave him a midday drink, so he drank.
يا رب مهر مزعوق مقيل أو مغبوق من لبن الدهم الروق
O Lord of a bleating colt, given a midday drink or a late drink from the milk of the pure, noble camels.
ويقال: هو شروب للقيل، إذا كان مهيافا دقيق الخصر، يحتاج إلى شرب نصف النهار
And it is said: He is a drinker at midday, if he is slender-waisted and thin-waisted, needing to drink at midday.
وأقلته البيع إقالة، وهو فسخه
And I rescinded the sale to him, and it is its annulment.
وربما قالوا قلته البيع، وهي لغة قليلة
And sometimes they say 'I rescinded the sale to him', and it is a rare dialect.
واستقلته البيع فأقالني إياه
And I sought the rescission of the sale, and he rescinded it to me.
وتقيل فلان أباه، أي أشبهه
And so-and-so resembled his father, meaning he was like him.