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Arabic root

ع-ط-ل

Ayn-Tah-Lam

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About this root

Ayn-Tah-Lam (ع-ط-ل) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ʿutla (vacation / holiday).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 2 times in 2 verses, across 2 of the 114 suras. The first is in 22:45.

Themes: Work

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
عُطْلة
ʿutla
vacation / holidaynoun, A2Work Communication

In the Quran

فَكَأَيِّن مِّن قَرْيَةٍ أَهْلَكْنَـٰهَا وَهِىَ ظَالِمَةٌ فَهِىَ خَاوِيَةٌ عَلَىٰ عُرُوشِهَا وَبِئْرٍ مُّعَطَّلَةٍ وَقَصْرٍ مَّشِيدٍ

How many a township have We destroyed while it was sinful, so that it lieth (to this day) in ruins, and (how many) a deserted well and lofty tower!

Quran 22:45
وَإِذَا ٱلْعِشَارُ عُطِّلَتْ

And when the camels big with young are abandoned,

Quran 81:4

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

A2noun
عُطْلة
ʿutla

vacation / holiday

Example
أَحْتاج إلى عُطْلة مِن العَمَل.
aḥtāj ilā ʿutla min al-ʿamal.
I need a vacation from work.

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