عقل

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ع ق ل (ʕ-q-l).

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /ʕaql/
  • (file)
  • (Hejazi Arabic) IPA(key): /ʕaɡil/

Noun

عَقْل (ʕaql) m (plural عُقُول (ʕuqūl))

  1. verbal noun of عَقَلَ (ʕaqala) (form I)
  2. understanding, reason, wisdom, sound judgment
    حَدِّثِ الْعَاقِلَ بِمَا لَا يَلِيقُ، فَإِنْ صَدَّقَ فَلَا عَقْلَ لَهُ.
    ḥaddiṯi l-ʕāqila bimā lā yalīqu, faʔin ṣaddaqa falā ʕaqla lahu.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  3. mind
  4. (Christianity) Holy Ghost
  5. asylum
  6. fortress
  7. bloodwite
Declension
Descendants
  • Maltese: għaqal
  • Azerbaijani: ağıl
  • Bashkir: аҡыл (aqıl)
  • Bengali: আকল (akol)
  • Crimean Tatar: aqıl
  • Khakas: ағыл (ağıl)
  • Kazakh: ақыл (aqyl)
  • Khalaj: aqıl
  • Northern Kurdish: aqil
    Lishana Deni: עאקל (‘āqəl, mind, intelligence, wisdom)
  • Kyrgyz: акыл (akıl)
  • Malay: akal
  • Northern Kurdish: aqil
  • Classical Persian: عقل ('aql) (see there for further descendants)
  • Shor: ағыл
  • Swahili: akili
  • Ottoman Turkish: عقل (akl, akıl)
  • Tatar: акыл (aqıl)
  • Turkmen: akyl
  • Uzbek: aql

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /ʕa.qa.la/
  • (Hejazi Arabic) IPA(key): /ʕiɡil/

Verb

عَقَلَ (ʕaqala) I, non-past يَعْقِلُ‎ (yaʕqilu)

  1. to hobble, to tie with the rope عِقَال (ʕiqāl)
  2. to be reasonable, to make sense
  3. to renounce revenge for wergeld, to relinquish retaliation of blood
Conjugation

Verb

عَقَلَ (ʕaqala) I, non-past يَعْقِلُ‎ (yaʕqilu)

  1. to make oneself inaccessible in a high mountain, to betake oneself for refuge
Conjugation

Verb

عَقَلَ (ʕaqala) I, non-past يَعْقِلُ‎ (yaʕqilu)

  1. to pasture upon camelthorn (عَاقُول (ʕāqūl))
Conjugation

Verb

عَقِلَ (ʕaqila) I, non-past يَعْقَلُ‎ (yaʕqalu)

  1. to have a twisting in the hind-leg
Conjugation

Verb

عَقَّلَ (ʕaqqala) II, non-past يُعَقِّلُ‎ (yuʕaqqilu)

  1. to make reasonable
Conjugation

Noun

عَقَل (ʕaqal) m

  1. verbal noun of عَقَلَ (ʕaqala) (form I)
  2. verbal noun of عَقِلَ (ʕaqila) (form I)
Declension

Gojri

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَقل ('aql), from Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql).

Noun

عَقل ('aql) f

  1. intelligence, wisdom, sense

Further reading

  • Dr Rafique Anjum (2018) Concise Gojri-Kashmiri-English Dictionary, New Delhi: Adam Publishers & Distributors, →ISBN, page 310.
  • Javaid Rahi (2015), “عَقلْ”, in گوجری ڈکشنری [Gojri Dictionary] (in Gojri), page 663, column 2.

Khalaj

Noun

عَقِل (aqıl) (definite accusative عَقلؽ, plural عَقِللار)

  1. Arabic spelling of aqıl (intellect)

Declension

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

Root
ع ق ل
1 term

From Arabic عَقَلَ (ʕaqala).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʕqal/

Verb

عقل (ʕqal) (form I, non-past يعقل (yiʕqal))

  1. to remember

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql).

Noun

عقل (akl, akıl)

  1. understanding, reason, wisdom, sound judgment, mind

Descendants

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql).

Pronunciation

  • (Dari): IPA(key): /aql/

Noun

Dari عَقل
Iranian Persian
Tajik ақл (aql)

عَقل ('aql)

  1. mind, intellect, understanding, reason
  2. good sense, sound judgment
    • 1976, خسرو شاهانی, “عینک طبی”, in کور لعنتی:
      تو هم اگر عقل درستی داشتی، روزگارت بهتر از این بود.
      to ham agar aql-e dorost-i dâšti, ruzegâr-et behtar az in bud.
      If you had good sense, your life would be better off than this.

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَقل ('aql), from Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql). First attested as Old Hindi अकलि (akali).

Pronunciation

Noun

عَقْل (‘aql) f (plural عُقُول, Hindi spelling अक़्ल)

  1. common sense
  2. understanding, wisdom
    Synonym: سَمَجھ (samajh)

Further reading

  • S. W. Fallon (1879), عقل”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • عقل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884), 280”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), عقل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 437
  • عقل”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
  • John Shakespear (1834), عقل”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1224
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