و عل

Root entry · 30 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of connection, joining, and reaching. It extends to linking things together, arriving at a destination, and maintaining relationships. It also encompasses related ideas like continuity, union, and the act of connecting.

Derived headwords

وَصَلَverb

1.
to connect, joinboth
To join or link things together, physically or metaphorically.
2.
to reach, arriveboth
To arrive at a destination or reach a point.
3.
to deliver, conveyboth
To deliver or convey something to someone.

وَصْلnoun

1.
connection, unionboth
The state of being connected or joined; a link.
2.
delivery, conveyanceboth
The act of delivering or conveying something.
3.
love, affectionclassical
Affection or love, especially in the context of relationships.

وَصْلَةnoun

1.
connection, linkboth
A connection, link, or bond between things.
2.
arrival, reachingboth
The act of arriving or reaching a destination.
3.
bond of loveclassical
A bond of love or affection.

تَوْصِيلnoun

1.
connecting, joiningboth
The act of connecting or joining things together.
2.
delivery, conveyanceboth
The act of delivering or conveying something.

أَوْصَلَverb

1.
to deliver, conveyboth
To cause something to reach or be delivered to someone.

اِتَّصَلَverb

1.
to be connected, joinedboth
To be connected or joined to something else; to be continuous.
2.
to contact, get in touchmodern
To make contact with someone, to communicate.

وَاصِلَةnoun

1.
hair-extenderclassical
A woman who attaches false hair to her own hair.
2.
striped garmentclassical
A type of striped garment, often red.

مُسْتَوْصِلَةnoun

1.
one who seeks hair extensionclassical
A woman who seeks to have her hair extended with false hair.

وَصْلnoun

1.
connectionboth
The connection or link between things.

وَصْلَةnoun

1.
connectionboth
That which connects or is connected to something.

وَصْلnoun

1.
connectionboth
The connection or link between things.

مُوَصِّلnoun

1.
rope joinclassical
The knot or connection point of a rope.

أَوْصَالnoun

1.
joints, limbsboth
The joints of the body or the limbs.
2.
bonesclassical
Individual bones, not broken or mixed with others.

وَصِيلَةnoun

1.
specific animal offeringclassical
A type of animal (camel or sheep) whose offspring were designated for specific purposes or deities in pre-Islamic Arabia.
2.
fertility, abundanceclassical
Fertility, abundance, or the joining of pastures.
3.
striped garmentclassical
A Yemenite garment with stripes.
4.
group of travelersclassical
A group of travelers journeying together.
5.
swordclassical
A sword, metaphorically compared to a striped garment.
6.
ball of yarnclassical
A ball of spun thread.
7.
vast landclassical
A wide, distant piece of land, as if connected to another.

وَصَائِلnoun

1.
striped garmentsclassical
Plural of 'waṣīlah', referring to striped garments.

لَيْلَةُ الْوَصْلِnoun

1.
last night of the monthclassical
The last night of the lunar month, connecting to the next month.

حَرْفُ الْوَصْلِnoun

1.
connecting letterclassical
A letter that follows the rhyme letter (rawiyy) in poetry, often a long vowel or 'ha'.

مُوَصِّلٌname

1.
city nameboth
A city in Iraq, also known as Mosul.

مُوَصِّلَانِname

1.
Mosul and the Jaziraclassical
Refers to the city of Mosul and the region of Jazira.

مَوْصُولٌname

1.
male nameclassical
A male given name.

إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُوَصِّلٍname

1.
name of a narratorclassical
A narrator mentioned in historical texts.

وَصِيلُكَnoun

1.
close companionclassical
One who enters and exits with you; a close companion.

تَصِلُname

1.
well nameclassical
A well located in the lands of the Hudhayl tribe.

وَاصِلٌname

1.
male nameclassical
A male given name.

وَاصِلَةُ بْنُ جَنَابٍname

1.
companion nameclassical
A companion (Sahabi), though possibly a misspelling of Wathilah.

أَبُو الْوَصْلِname

1.
companion nameclassical
A companion (Sahabi) whose hadith is with his children.

تَوَصَّلَverb

1.
to reach by kindnessclassical
To reach someone or achieve something through gentleness and effort.

الْمَوْتَصِلَةname

1.
spear nameclassical
The name of the Prophet's spear, named optimistically for its 'arrival' at the enemy.

اِتَّصَلَverb

1.
to claim lineageclassical
To claim lineage or ancestry, especially in the manner of pre-Islamic boasts.

يَصِلُهَاverb

1.
to maintain kinship tiesboth
To maintain ties of kinship or good relations.

Parallel reading

ولقد وصلنا لهم القول

And indeed, We have connected the speech for them.

وصل الحبال وغيرها توصيلا: وصل بعضها ببعض

To connect ropes and other things, connecting some of them to each other.

وصلك الله، بالكسر، لغة في الفتح

May God connect you (with kasra) is a dialectal variant for the fatha pronunciation.

وصل الشيء إليه يصل وصولا ووصلة، بضمهما

To reach a thing, to reach it, arriving and reaching, with both words having damma.

واتصل الشيء بالشيء: لم ينقطع

And a thing became connected to another: it did not break.

لعن الله الواصلة والمستوصلة

May God curse the woman who attaches hair and the one who seeks it.

فالواصلة: المرأة تصل شعرها بشعر غيرها

So the waṣilah is the woman who attaches hair to the hair of others.

والمستوصلة: الطالبة لذلك وهي التي يفعل بها ذلك

And the mustawṣilah is the one who seeks that, and she is the one upon whom it is done.

أيما امرأة وصلَت شعرها بشعر غيرها كان زوراً

Any woman who connects her hair with the hair of others, it is a falsehood.

فإن وصلت حبل الصفاء فدم لها

If you maintain the bond of sincere friendship, then be loyal to her.

والوصلة: الاتصال: وما اتصل بالشيء

And al-waṣlah: connection; and that which is connected to something.

الأوصال: المفاصل

Al-awṣāl: the joints.

كان فعم الأوصال أي: ممتلئ الأعضاء

He was full of limbs, meaning: full of organs.

الوصيلة التي كانت في الجاهلية الناقة التي وصلت بين عشرة أبطن

The waṣīlah that existed in the Jahiliyyah was the she-camel that connected ten pregnancies.

فإن ولدت في السابعة عناقاً وجدياً قيل وصلت أخاها

If in the seventh she gave birth to a kid and a lamb, it was said she connected her brother.

أول من كسا الكعبة كسوة كاملة تبع، كساها الأنطاع ثم كساها الوصائل

The first to clothe the Kaaba with a complete covering was Tubba', he clothed it with tanned hides then clothed it with al-waṣā'il.

وليلة الوصل: آخر ليالي الشهر

And laylat al-waṣl: the last night of the month.

وهذه الحركات إذا اتصلت واستطالت نشأت عنها حروف المد واللين

And these vowels, when they connect and lengthen, give rise to the letters of extension and softness.

الموصل: بناه محمد بن مروان إذ ولي الجزيرة في خلافة أخيه عبد الملك

Al-Mawṣil: Muhammad ibn Marwan built it when he governed Al-Jazira during the caliphate of his brother Abd al-Malik.

والموصلان ومنا المصر والحرم

And the two Mosuls, and from us are the cities and the sanctuaries.

الموصول: دابة كالدبر سوداء وحمراء تلسع الناس

Al-Mawṣūl: an animal like a locust, black and red, that stings people.

أغرك يا موصول منها ثمالة وبقل بأكناف الغريف تؤان

Does the abundance from it deceive you, O Mawṣūl, and the plants on the sides of the valley?

ووصيلك: من يدخل ويخرج معك

And your waṣīl: one who enters and exits with you.

بئر ببلاد هذيل

A well in the lands of Hudhayl.

وجمعهم أواصل، تقلب الواو همزة كراهة اجتماع الواوين

And their plural is awāṣil, the waw is changed to hamza to avoid the meeting of two waws.

توصل بالركبان حينا وتؤلف الجوار

He would reach out to travelers at times and befriend neighbors.

وكان اسم نبله - عليه أفضل الصلاة والسلام - الموتصلة، سميت بها تفاؤلا بوصولها إلى العدو

And the name of his spear - peace and blessings be upon him - was Al-Muttaṣilah, named so optimistically for its 'arrival' at the enemy.

فإنها لا تدغم هذه الواو وأشباهها في التاء فتقول: موتصل وموتفق وموتعد

For they do not assimilate this waw and its like into the ta', so they say: muttaṣil, muttafiq, and muttaʿid.

من اتصل فأعضوه

Whoever claims lineage, then tell him: 'Bite your father's penis'.

إذا اتصلت قالت لبكر بن وائل

When she claimed lineage, she said to Bakr ibn Wa'il.

ووصل فلان رحمه يصلها صلة

And so-and-so maintained his kinship ties, maintaining them with connection.

وبينهما وصلة: أي اتصال وذريعة

And between them is a waṣlah: meaning connection and a means.