والع

Arabic

Etymology

Derived from the active participle of وَلِعَ (waliʕa, “to be ablaze”) and وَلَعَ (walaʕa, “to lie”).

Adjective

وَالِع • (wāliʕ) (feminine وَالِعَة (wāliʕa), masculine plural وَالِعُونَ (wāliʕūna), feminine plural وَالِعَات (wāliʕāt))

  1. ablaze, on fire
  2. in love, passionate

Declension

Noun

وَالِع • (wāliʕ) m (plural وَلَعَة (walaʕa))

  1. liar

Declension

References

  • “والع” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “والع”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 504
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “والع”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1604
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