ليلة

From the root ل ي ل‎ (l-y-l). From Proto-Semitic *layl-. Can be analyzed as a singulative noun, from لَيْل‎ (layl, “nighttime”) +‎ ـَة‎ (-a, singulative suffix). Cognate with Classical Syriac ܠܹܠܝܵܐ‎ (lēlyā), Aramaic לֵילְיָא‎ (lēləyā), Hebrew לַיְלָה‎ (láyla).

• IPA^(key): /laj.la/

لَيْلَة • (layla) f (plural لَيْلَات‎ (laylāt) or لَيَالٍ‎ (layālin))

1. a night

   Antonym: يَوْم‎ (yawm)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 69:7:

     ‏سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَانِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَى كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ‎

     saḵḵarahā ʕalayhim sabʕa layālin waṯamāniyata ʔayyāmin ḥusūman fatarā l-qawma fīhā ṣarʕā kaʔannahum ʔaʕjāzu naḵlin ḵāwiyatin

     Which He [i.e., Allāh] imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 89:1-2:

     ‏وَٱلْفَجْرِ وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍ‎

     wal-fajri walayālin ʕašrin

     By the dawn. And [by] ten nights

2. soiree

• لَيْلَتَئِذٍ‎ (laylataʔiḏin)

• لَيْل‎ (layl)
• لَيْلَى‎ (laylā)

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ليل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic لَيْلة‎ (layla).

• IPA^(key): /laj.la/, /liː.la/

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لَيْلة or لِيلة • (layla or līla) f (plural لَيْلات‎ (laylāt) or لِيلات‎ (līlāt))

1. a night

• هاد الليلة‎ (hād el-layla, hād el-līla, “tonight”)

• ليل‎ (layl, līl, “nighttime”)

From Arabic لَيْلَة‎ (layla).

• IPA^(key): /leː.le/, [ˈleː.le]
• IPA^(key): /leː.la/, [ˈleː.la]

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ليلة • (lēle) f (singulative, collective ليل‎ m (lēl), plural ليالي‎ (layāli))

1. a night, late evening

   Antonym: يوم‎ (yōm)

• الليلة‎ (il-lēle, “tonight”)

• ليل‎ (lēl, “nighttime”)
• نهار‎ (nhār, “daytime”)