راحل

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ر ح ل‎ (r-ḥ-l), related to departing, leaving.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raː.ħil/.

Adjective

راحِل • (rāḥil) (feminine راحِلَة‎ (rāḥila), masculine plural راحِلُون‎ (rāḥilūn), feminine plural راحِلات‎ (rāḥilāt))

  1. leaving, outgoing, departing
  2. (euphemistic) late, deceased
    ‏اَلْأَمِير الرّاحِل‎ ― al-ʾamīr ar-rāḥil ― the late Emir
    Synonym: مُتَوَفَّىٰ‎ (mutawaffā)
    • 2008, مُعْجَمُ اللُّغَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ الْمُعَاصِرَةِ (muʿjamu l-luḡati l-ʿarabiyyati l-muʿāṣirati), 1st edition, Cairo, Egypt: Alam Al-Kotob, published 2008, →ISBN, page 7:
      ‏وَقَدْ جَاءَ مُعْجَمُ اللُّغَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ الْمُعَاصِرَةِ- بِالْإِضَافَةِ إِلَى مَعَاجِمِهِ الْأُخْرَى- تَطْبِيقًا لِأَحَدِ الْآرَاءِ النَّظَرِيَّةِ الَّتِي كَانَ يُنَادِي بِهَا الْعَالِمُ الرَّاحِلُ، وَهُوَ إِصْدَارُ الْمَعَاجِمِ الْجَمَاعِيَّةِ بِٱلِٱعْتِمَادِ عَلَى فِكْرَةِ فَرِيقِ الْعَمَلِ ذِي الْكَوَادِرِ الْمُدَرَّبَةِ وَتَلَافِي الْفَرْدِيَّةِ كَعَيْبٍ أَسَاسِيٍّ فِي إِنْتَاجِ الْمَعَاجِمِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ؛ […] ‎
      waqad jāʾa muʿjamu l-luḡati l-ʿarabiyyati l-muʿāṣirati- bi-l-ʾiḍāfati ʾilā maʿājimihi l-ʾuḵrā- taṭbīqan liʾaḥadi l-ʾārāʾi n-naẓariyyati allatī kāna yunādī bihā l-ʿālimu r-rāḥilu, wahuwa ʾiṣdāru l-maʿājimi l-jamāʿiyyati bi-l-iʿtimādi ʿalā fikrati farīqi l-ʿamali ḏī l-kawādiri l-mudarrabati watalāfī l-fardiyyati kaʿaybin ʾasāsiyyin fī ʾintāji l-maʿājimi l-ʿarabiyyati; […]
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Declension

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