عزلة

Arabic

Root
ع ز ل (ʕ-z-l)

Noun

عُزْلَة • (ʕuzla) f (plural عُزَل (ʕuzal))

  1. (the fact or the state of) being alone
  2. solitude, isolation
  3. detachment, reserve
  4. aloofness, retreat, hermitage
  5. (Yemen) hamlet, thorp, village
  6. (Yemen) clan, tribe

Declension

Noun

عِزْلَة • (ʕizla) f (plural عِزَل (ʕizal))

  1. (Yemen) a type of administrative division consisting of adjacent villages, translated as “sub-district” because below a نَاحِيَة (nāḥiya)

Declension

References

  • Arabic Moungued dictionary
  • Landberg, Carlo, editor (1942), Glossaire daṯînois (in French), Leiden: Brill, page 2289
  • Piamenta, Moshe (1991) Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 326a
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.