The Arabic root ع-و-ل (a-w-l)

Form I verb عَالَ: to provide for

7 words in the dictionary are built from ع-و-ل, including verbs in Forms I, IV. 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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Noun

عَائِلَة

family

Verb · Form I

عَالَ

to provide for

Adjective

عَائِل

poor

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

عَالَ · present يَعُولُ

Form I · The plain action

to provide for, to sustain; to impoverish, to pauperize; to be poor or needy

عَوْل

Verbal noun

عَيْلُولَة

Verbal noun

household

عَائِل

Active participle

poor

مَعُول

Passive participle

أَعْوَلَ · present يُعْوِلُ

Form IV · Causative

to lament, cry out, wail

إِعْوَال

Verbal noun

مُعْوِل

Active participle

مُعْوَل

Passive participle

Other nouns and adjectives

عَائِلَة

Noun

family

مِعْوَل

Noun

pickaxe

عَيِّل

Noun

dependent

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