أصل

أَصُلَ

To take root, or become firmly founded, established, and strong.

Said of a thing, especially a tree or plant, that develops a firm root or foundation.

• Lane · entry 6837

أَصُلَ

To become firm or sound; of a person, to be sound and intelligent in judgment; and of judgment or opinion, to become firm, sound, or good.

The personal and judgment-related applications are Classical uses of the Form I verb.

• Lane · entry 6837

أَصُلَ

To become eminent, noble, or honorable.

A Classical Form I use describing the acquisition of distinction or honor.

• Lane · entry 6837

أَصَلَهُ

To strike or hit the root, foundation, or ultimate constituent of something.

Transitive use directed at the part on which a thing depends or by which it is what it is.

• Lane · entry 6837

أَصَلَهُ عِلْمًا

To know something completely or thoroughly, as though reaching its root or ultimate constituent.

An idiomatic transitive construction occurring with عِلْمًا.

• Lane · entry 6837

أَصِلَ

To become altered for the worse in taste and odor, or spoiled.

Said especially of water affected by fetid black mud, and also of meat.

• Lane · entry 6837

أَصِلَ

To set about or commence doing something.

Used of a person beginning an action or undertaking.

• Lane · entry 6837

أَصَّلَ

To give something a firm or fixed root or foundation on which another thing can be built.

Causative Form II use; it can also describe making property established or firmly based.

• Lane · entry 6838

أَصَّلَ الأُصُولَ

To arrange, classify, distribute, or set in order the fundamentals or principles of a field.

A technical Form II construction used of organizing the principles of a science or discipline.

• Lane · entry 6838

آصَلَ

To enter upon the period called أَصِيل.

Form IV time expression referring to the beginning of the evening period.

• Lane · entry 6839

اِسْتَأْصَلَ

To uproot, cut off, or remove something completely from its root; hence to eradicate, extirpate, or destroy utterly.

Used literally of plants, horns, ulcers, or the prepuce, and figuratively of people or groups that are completely destroyed or extirpated.

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أَصْلٌ

An origin, source, basis, parent, stock, or lineage from which something proceeds or on which it depends.

Includes relations such as a father to offspring or a river to a branch stream, as well as origin or stock in matters of descent.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصْلٌ

Immovable or established property, especially land, a house, or palm trees; also a source of wealth, capital, or principal.

A property term for assets regarded as a lasting foundation rather than as merchandise for immediate trade.

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• Lane · entry 6850

أَصْلٌ

The entirety or whole of something.

In expressions meaning to take or receive something with its root, the sense is completely or without leaving anything.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصْلًا

Ever, at any time, or at all.

Adverbial use in negation or prohibition, distinct from the concrete noun meaning root or base.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصْلٌ

The original or elemental matter, material, substance, or constituent from which something is taken or made.

A Classical use equivalent to the source material or essential substance of a thing.

• Lane · entry 6842

أُصُولٌ

Fundamentals, foundational articles, principles, elements, or rudiments of a science or doctrine.

Includes the technical expression عِلْمُ الأُصُولِ for the study of fundamental doctrines or principles.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصْلٌ

A radical or essential letter of a word, as opposed to an augmentative letter.

Technical grammatical terminology concerning the essential elements of a word.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصْلٌ

The original form of a word.

Technical lexicographical and grammatical use.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصْلٌ

The original or primary signification of a word.

Technical use distinguishing a basic meaning from a derived or figurative one.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصْلٌ

An original copy or exemplar of a book, especially a copy from which one quotes or transcribes.

Used of a manuscript or textual source serving as the basis for copying.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصْلٌ

The original, former, or natural state or condition of a thing.

Includes returning to an earlier or natural disposition and legal or customary statements about the default state of things.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصْلٌ

The utmost point or degree to which a person or thing can be brought, or the utmost effort one can make.

Occurs in idiomatic expressions involving driving or constraining someone to their limit.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصْلٌ

The essence, reality, or ultimate constituent by which a thing is what it is.

An abstract Classical use closely associated with the thing's essential constitution, not merely its physical root.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصْلٌ

The principal, purest, best, or choicest part of something; its core or prime portion.

May refer to the principal dwelling place of a people or the foremost part of a group or lineage.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصْلٌ

A basic or governing principle: what is proper or standard, the default state, the predominant or literal interpretation, what is essential, or a general rule.

A technical abstract use in statements of legal, logical, grammatical, or interpretive principle.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصْلٌ

An indication, evidence, or proof for what is indicated, evidenced, or established.

Technical use for a basis that demonstrates or proves a conclusion.

• Lane · entry 6842

أَصِلٌ

Extirpating, eradicating, or excising thoroughly.

An adjectival or descriptive use applied to removal from the root or to complete excision.

• Lane · entry 6844

أَصَلَةٌ

A highly venomous serpent, described as short or broad and capable of springing upon and killing its victim.

Descriptions vary as to its size and shape; the associated expression أَصَلَتْهُ الأَصَلَةُ describes the serpent springing upon and killing someone.

• Lane · entry 6846
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أَصَلَةٌ

Short and broad.

A figurative adjectival application to a man or woman, derived from the description of the serpent.

• Lane · entry 6846

أَصْلِيٌّ

Radical, fundamental, primitive, original, or underived.

Especially used of an essential letter or a primary signification, in contrast with an augmentative or figurative one.

• Lane · entry 6847

أَصْلِيَّةٌ

Radicalness, originality, or the quality of being fundamental or rooted.

A technical noun used for the quality expressed by أَصْلِيٌّ and also in place of تَأَصُّلٌ.

• Lane · entry 6848

أَصِيلٌ

Firmly rooted, established, stable, permanent, or enduring.

By extension, it describes firm or sound judgment, deeply founded glory, and, in a particular expression, deeply rooted or vehement evil.

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أَصِيلٌ

Of established lineage or pedigree; noble, generous, or well-born.

A Classical personal epithet referring to a person's rootedness in lineage or distinction.

• Lane · entry 6849

الأَصِيلُ

Destruction or death.

A Classical nominal use recorded as a designation for ruin or death.

• Lane · entry 6849

أَصِيلَةٌ

A man's whole established property, especially his palm trees, or land long possessed or inherited from his parents.

A regional property term for inherited or longstanding land and assets providing one's livelihood.

• Lane · entry 6850

أَصِيلَةٌ

The whole of something or everyone together.

In expressions meaning to take something altogether or for a group to come in its entirety.

• Lane · entry 6850

أُصُولِيٌّ

A person skilled in the science of fundamentals or principles.

A technical occupational noun derived from أُصُولٌ.

• Lane · entry 6851

مُؤْصِلٌ

Entering upon the evening period.

A derived participial or descriptive use for arriving as the time called أَصِيل begins.

• Lane · entry 6854