توكل

See also: تؤكل‎

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root و ك ل‎ (w-k-l); compare وَكَلَ‎ (wakala, “to trust, to rely on”).

Verb

تَوَكَّلَ • (tawakkala) V, non-past يَتَوَكَّلُ‎‎ (yatawakkalu)

  1. (construed with عَلَى‎ (ʕalā)) to rely on, to confide one's affairs to, to trust entirely in
  2. to be appointed as a substitute, etc.
Conjugation
Descendants
  • → Azerbaijani: təvəkkül
  • → Kazakh: тәуекел (täuekel)
  • → Persian: توکل‎
References
  • Haywood, J.A.; Nahmad, H.M. (1965), “توكل”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “وكل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

Noun

تَوَكُّل • (tawakkul) m

  1. verbal noun of تَوَكَّلَ (tawakkala) (form V)
Declension
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