هائل

Derived from the active participle of هَالَ‎ (hāla, “to scare away, to frighten”), from the root ه و ل‎ (h-w-l).

• IPA^(key): /haː.ʔil/
• Rhymes: -il

هَائِل • (hāʔil)

1. active participle of هَالَ‎ (hāla).
   1. tremendous
      1. (dated) awe-inspiring, terrifying
      2. enormous, gigantic
         • 2017 November 2, “مع قرب موعد أول عملية زراعة رأس لإنسان...المخاطر والعواقب”, in Al-Quds‎, archived from the original on 2 November 2017:

           ‏لَا يَسَعْنِي إِلَّا أَنْ أَفْصَحَ عَنْ حُدُوثِ تَقَدُّمٍ هَائِلٍ فِي ٱلتَّجَارِبِ ٱلطِّبِّيَّةِ، كَانَ يَبْدُو مُسْتَحِيلًا حَتَى أَخِيرًا مُنْذُ بِضْعَةِ أَشْهُرٍ. وَمِنَ ٱلْمُؤَكَّدِ أَنَّ ٱلْمَعَالِمَ ٱلَّتِي تَمَّ ٱلتَّوَصُّلُ إِلَيْهَا سَتُحْدِثُ ثَوْرَةً فِي ٱلطِّبِّ.‎‎

           lā yasaʕnī ʔillā ʔan ʔafṣaḥa ʕan ḥudūṯi taqaddumin hāʔilin fī t-tajāribi ṭ-ṭibbiyyati, kāna yabdū mustaḥīlan ḥatā ʔaḵīran munḏu biḍʕati ʔašhurin. wamina l-muʔakkadi ʔanna l-maʕālima llatī tamma t-tawaṣṣulu ʔilayhā satuḥdiṯu ṯawratan fī ṭ-ṭibbi.

           I can only express that there has come forth a tremendous progress in the medical trials which used to seem untransactable until lately some months ago. And it is certain that the reached milestones will spawn a revolution in medicine.

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “هول”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “هائل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Mu`jam al-Sawaab al-Lughawi by Ahmad Mukhtar Umar (d. 2003 CE) معجم الصواب اللغوي لأحمد مختار عمر