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The Arabic root ع-ق-ل (a-q-l)
Form I verb عَقَلَ: to be reasonable
28 words in the dictionary are built from ع-ق-ل, including verbs in Forms I, II, VI, VIII. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.
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Verbs and the nouns that come from them
to be reasonable, to make sense
to renounce revenge for wergild, to relinquish retaliation of blood
to hobble, to tie with the rope عِقَال (ʕiqāl)
to make oneself inaccessible in a high mountain, to betake oneself for refuge
to pasture upon camelthorn (عَاقُول (ʕāqūl))
to have a twisting in the hind leg
to make reasonable
to jointly pay bloodwite; to feign intelligence, wisdom, understanding
arrest (a natural person or a person’s assets)
Other nouns and adjectives
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