littleness
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ق-ل-ل
The Arabic root ق-ل-ل (q-l-l)
Form I verb قَلَّ: to be few
18 words in the dictionary are built from ق-ل-ل, including verbs in Forms I, II, X. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.
Most common
Adjective
مُسْتَقِلّ
independent
Verb · Form II
قَلَّلَ
to lessen
Verb · Form I
قَلَّ
to be few
Noun
قُلَّة
peak
Noun
تَقْلِيل
reduction
Verbs and the nouns that come from them
قَلَّ
· present يَقِلُّ
Form I · The plain action
to be few, to be little; to become few, to become little
قِلّة
قَالّ
مُقِلّ
poor
قَلَّمَا
rarely
قَلَّلَ
· present يُقَلِّلُ
Form II · Causative or intensive
to lessen, to decrease, to reduce, to diminish; to call something unimportant, to deemphasize, to play down
تَقْلِيل
reduction
مُقَلِّل
مُقَلَّل
اِسْتَقَلَّ
· present يَسْتَقِلُّ
Form X · Seeking or considering
to find small, to find too paltry; to despise, to contemn; to depart
اِسْتِقْلَال
independence
مُسْتَقِلّ
independent
مُسْتَقَلّ
Other nouns and adjectives
few
elative degree of قَلِيل
قُلَّة
peak
قَلِيل
a few
قَلِيلًا
a little
أَقَلِّيَّة
minority
اِسْتِقْلَالِيَّة
autonomy
عَلَى اَلْأَقَلّ
at least
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