إبليس

See also: ابلیس

Arabic

Etymology

Theorised to come from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “devil, accuser, slanderer”). Alternatively, it has been maintained to originate from the trilateral root ب ل س (b-l-s) with the meaning of "despairing [of God's mercy] or confounded [and unable to see the right course]" from the verb أَبْلَسَ (ʔablasa). This would, however, require the trilateral root to take the form if'īl which, excepting إحليل, is usually associated with words of non-Arabic origin (see إدريس, إكليل, إنجيل, إبريز, and إبريق).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔib.liːs/

Proper noun

إِبْلِيس • (ʔiblīs) m

(religion) Iblis, Satan; the Devil.
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:34:
  وَإِذْ قُلْنَا لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ ٱسْجُدُوا لِآدَمَ فَسَجَدُوا إِلَّا إِبْلِيسَ أَبَى وَٱسْتَكْبَرَ وَكَانَ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ
  waʔiḏ qulnā lilmalāʔikati sjudū liʔādama fasajadū ʔillā ʔiblīsa ʔabā wastakbara wakāna mina l-kāfirīna
  And [mention] when We said to the angels, "Prostrate before Adam"; so they prostrated, except for Iblees. He refused and was arrogant and became of the disbelievers.

Declension

Declension of noun إِبْلِيس (ʔiblīs)

Singular	basic singular diptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	إِبْلِيس ʔiblīs	—
Nominative	—	إِبْلِيسُ ʔiblīsu	—
Accusative	—	إِبْلِيسَ ʔiblīsa	—
Genitive	—	إِبْلِيسَ ʔiblīsa	—

Related terms

إِبْلِيسِيّ (ʔiblīsiyy)
شَيْطَان (šayṭān)

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: iblis
→ Bashkir: иблис (iblis)
→ English: Iblis, Iblees, Eblis
→ Kazakh: ібіліс (ıbılıs)
→ Kyrgyz: ибилис (ibilis)
→ Northern Kurdish: îblîs
→ Ottoman Turkish: ابلیس (iblis)
> Turkish: iblis (inherited)
→ Swahili: Ibilisi
→ Tatar: иблис (iblis)
→ Uyghur: ئىبلىس (iblis)
→ Uzbek: iblis
→ Yoruba: bìlísì

References

Lane, Edward William (1863) “إبليس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate

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