ظل

From Proto-Semitic *ṯ̣ill- (“shadow”). Cognate with Akkadian 𒄑𒈪 (ṣillum), Ugaritic 𐎑𐎍 (ẓl) and Biblical Hebrew צל‎ (ṣel).

ظِلّ • (ẓill) m (plural ظِلَال‎ (ẓilāl) or ظُلُول‎ (ẓulūl) or أَظْلَال‎ (ʔaẓlāl))

1. shadow, shade
2. shady garden
3. paradise
4. protection, help, assistance
5. dark cloud
6. darkness
7. night
8. phantom, specter
9. cover, lid, scabbard
10. shape, figure, person
11. the Sultan (as shadow of God on Earth)
12. greatness, sublimity, distinction, eminence, rareness
13. power, night
14. colors of the day, shades of color, bloom of youth
15. heat of summer
16. fringe, hairy side of a cloth
17. hue
18. trace
19. (mathematics, trigonometry) tangent (symbol: ظا‎, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value))

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• جَيْب تَمَام‎ (jayb tamām, “cosine”)
• جَيْب‎ (jayb, “sine”)
• ظِلّ تَمَام‎ (ẓill tamām, “cotangent”)
• قَاطِع‎ (qāṭiʕ, “secant”)
• قَاطِع تَمَام‎ (qāṭiʕ tamām, “cosecant”)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ظل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ظل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

ظَلَّ • (ẓalla) I, non-past يَظَلُّ‎‎ (yaẓallu)

1. (copulative) to remain, to persist, to maintain

   ‏ظَلَّ صَامِتًا‎

   ẓalla ṣāmitan

   He remained silent.

   ‏ظَلَّ عَلَى مَوْقِفِهِ‎

   ẓalla ʕalā mawqifihi

   He maintained his point of view. [= stayed in the place he was standing]

2. to keep doing, to do constantly, to persist in, to remain [+participle or imperfect = doing]

   ‏يَظَلُّ يَتْبَعُهَا‎

   yaẓallu yatbaʕuhā

   He keeps following her.

   ‏ظَلُّوا جَالِسِينَ‎

   ẓallū jālisīna

   They remained sitting.

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• مَا زَالَ‎ (mā zāla, “to not stop (doing)”)

ظَلّ • (ẓall) m

1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (form I)

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From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• (kw) IPA^(key): /ðˤɪlˤ/

ظل • (ḏ̣iḷḷ) m (plural ظلال‎ (ḏ̣ḷāḷ))

1. shadow
2. shade

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• (kw) IPA^(key): /ðˤəlˤ/
• Homophone: ضل‎ (ḏ̣aḷ)

ظل • (ḏ̣aḷḷ) (non-past يظل‎ (yḏ̣iḷḷ))

1. to stay, to remain

   Synonym: بقى‎ (buga)

   Antonym: راح‎ (rāḥ)

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• IPA^(key): /dˤill/, [dˤɪl]

ظِلّ • (ḍill) m (plural ظلال‎ (ḍilāl))

1. shadow
2. shade