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يلل

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes a physical characteristic related to teeth, specifically their shortness or inward curvature. It also extends to metaphorical uses of 'shooting' or 'striking' and names of places.

Derived headwords

اليللnoun
  1. 1.
    Shortness of upper teethclassical

    The condition of the upper teeth being short, or their being bent inwards towards the mouth.

أيلadjective
  1. 1.
    the male of wild goatsboth

    the male of wild goats

  2. 2.
    a name of God, Hebrew or Syriacboth

    a name of God, Hebrew or Syriac

يلاءadjective
  1. 1.
    Having short upper teethclassical

    A woman described as having short or inwardly curved upper teeth.

يليلname
  1. 1.
    A place nameclassical

    A proper noun referring to a specific location.

Parallel reading

اليلل: قصر الأسنان العليا، ويقال انعطافها إلى داخل الفم.
Al-yalal: shortness of the upper teeth, and it is said their bending inwards into the mouth.
ورجل أيل، وامرأة يلاء.
And a man is ayl, and a woman is yalaa'.
رقميات عليها ناهض تكلح الأروق منهم والأيل أي رميتهم بسهام.
Marked ones upon them, a rising one, the gazelles among them showing their teeth, and the ayl, meaning I shot them with arrows.
ويليل: موضع.
And Yalil: a place.
نظرت إليك بمثل عينى مغزل قطعت حبائلها بأعلى يليل
I looked at you with eyes like a gazelle whose ropes have been cut in the heights of Yalil.