مُلَايَلَة
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Verb · Form III
لَايَلَ
to hire on a nightly basis
لَيْلَة in English
Noun · feminine
- a night
فِي لَيَالٍ كَتَمَتْ سِرَّ ٱلْهَوَىIn nights that hid the secret of love.سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَانِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَى كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍWhich He imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.609–632 CE, Qur'an, 69:7وَٱلْفَجْرِ وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍBy the dawn. And [by] ten nights609–632 CE, Qur'an, 89:1-2
- soiree
Word origin
From Proto-Semitic *laylay-. Can be analyzed as a singulative noun, from لَيْل (layl, “nighttime”) + ـَة (-a, singulative suffix). Cognate with Classical Syriac ܠܹܠܝܵܐ (lēlyā), Aramaic לֵילְיָא (lēləyā), Hebrew לַיְלָה (láyla).
Words from the root ل-ي-ل
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لَايَلَ
· present يُلَايِلُ
Form III · Done to or with someone
to hire on a nightly basis
لِيَال
مُلَايِل
مُلَايَل
لَيْلَة in a sentence
Dictionary examples
a night
فِي لَيَالٍ كَتَمَتْ سِرَّ ٱلْهَوَىIn nights that hid the secret of love.
a night
سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَانِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَى كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍWhich He imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.609–632 CE, Qur'an, 69:7
a night
وَٱلْفَجْرِ وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍBy the dawn. And [by] ten nights609–632 CE, Qur'an, 89:1-2
From a fully vowelled text
وَفِي تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةِ كَانَ كَلاَمُ اللهِ إِلَى نَاثَانَ قَائِلاً:And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,1 Chronicles 17:3, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
فِي تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةِ قُتِلَ بَيْلْشَاصَّرُ مَلِكُ الْكَلْدَانِيِّينَ،In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.Daniel 5:30, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
وَفِي تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةِ كَانَ كَلاَمُ الرَّبِّ إِلَى نَاثَانَ قَائِلاً:And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,2 Samuel 7:4, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
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