عمل

عَمِلَ

To officiate in the collection or administration of a poor-rate or similar public duty.

Occurs with عَلَى in the cited construction, as in serving over the collection of alms.

• Lane · entry 4796

عَمِلَ

To act upon something, have an effect or impression on it, or work toward its destruction.

A constructional use with an affected object; examples include a weapon having effect and laboring to destroy someone.

• Lane · entry 4796

عَمِلَ

To govern a word syntactically and produce a particular grammatical ending.

A technical grammatical use, especially with a governing expression said to produce nominative, accusative, genitive, or similar inflection.

• Lane · entry 4796

عَمِلَ

Of lightning, to continue; of a she-camel or similar mount, to move swiftly or become brisk and active.

Specialized uses applied to natural phenomena or swift movement of an animal.

• Lane · entry 4796

عَمِلَ

Of money or expenditure, to pass away or be spent.

An idiomatic use describing money that is expended or does not remain.

• Lane · entry 4796

عَمَّلَ

To appoint someone governor or official over a province, city, or people.

Form II causative/appointive construction, commonly with عَلَى.

• Lane · entry 4797

عَمَّلَ

To give someone his pay or salary for work, service, or agency.

A Form II employment and remuneration use.

• Lane · entry 4797

عَامَلَ

To deal, transact, or conduct business with someone.

Form III reciprocal or relational use, especially in buying and selling and similar dealings.

• Lane · entry 4798

عَامَلَ

To bargain or contract with someone for work, including an arrangement to cultivate land or trees for a share of the produce.

A work-contract use; the cultivation arrangement is a conventional regional application of the term.

• Lane · entry 4798

أَعْمَلَ

To make or cause someone to work, labor, serve, act, or produce something.

Form IV causative use with a person or a thing as the object of the caused activity.

• Lane · entry 4799

أَعْمَلَ

To employ or use one's judgment, opinion, intellect, tongue, instrument, or implement.

A Form IV use meaning to put a faculty or tool to work; it includes applying one's understanding to consider consequences.

• Lane · entry 4799

أَعْمَلَ

To hasten or urge a riding camel or other mount.

A specialized Form IV causative use applied to driving an animal onward.

• Lane · entry 4799

أَعْمَلَ

In a set phrase, to occupy oneself intensely with performing a deed or course of action.

An idiomatic Form IV expression describing sustained occupation with a specified action.

• Lane · entry 4799

أَعْمَلَ

To thrust or pierce with the working part of a spear.

A specialized Form IV weapon construction involving the عَامِل of the spear.

• Lane · entry 4799

تَعَمَّلَ

To undergo fatigue or difficulty and strive, labor, or toil.

Form V expresses exertion or strenuous effort for or in a task.

• Lane · entry 4800

تَعَامَلَ

To deal with one another in buying and selling or other transactions.

Form VI reciprocal dealing; it can also describe using a currency or object in commercial transactions.

• Lane · entry 4801

اِعْتَمَلَ

To work actively, independently or for another, especially by applying one's own labor or tools.

Form VIII depicts a person occupied in work or service, whether for himself or another and with or without implements.

• Lane · entry 4802

اِعْتَمَلَ

To labor to earn or gain sustenance, including by cultivating and managing land.

A transitive Form VIII use for applying one's labor to livelihood or agricultural work.

• Lane · entry 4802

اِعْتَمَلَ

To employ or use a person for work or service.

This use is reported as possibly post-classical.

• Lane · entry 4802

اِسْتَعْمَلَ

To ask, require, or desire someone to work, serve, or act for oneself.

Form X expresses seeking or requiring another's service.

• Lane · entry 4803

اِسْتَعْمَلَ

To put a person or thing to use, including employing someone in an office, using a garment or building material, or using a pretext or condition as a mask.

Form X extends from employing a person to making practical use of an object or assumed state.

• Lane · entry 4803

عَمَلٌ

Striving, laboring, or persisting in work.

A nominal specialization emphasizing continued exertion or holding on to a task.

• Lane · entry 4804

عَمَلٌ

In compounds, one who performs another's work; in ابنُ عَمَلٍ, a strong man; and in related expressions, people characterized by active travel.

These are fixed idiomatic or compound uses rather than the ordinary standalone noun.

• Lane · entry 4804

عَمَلٌ

In بَنُو عَمَلٍ, people who travel on foot.

A fixed plural expression.

• Lane · entry 4804

عَمَلٌ

The cultivation or agricultural management of palm trees, land, or similar property.

A possessive construction such as عَمَلُ النَّخْلِ or عَمَلُ الأَرْضِ specifies the field of work.

• Lane · entry 4804

عَمَلٌ

An administrative office, governorship, collecting office, agency, employment, or management of another's affairs and property.

A specialized institutional sense of work or office, including public administration.

• Lane · entry 4804

عَمَلٌ

A province or territory placed under a governor appointed by a sovereign.

A regional administrative use of the noun.

• Lane · entry 4804

عَمِلٌ

Of a man, having work, disposed or adapted by nature to labor, or making much gain.

An adjectival epithet describing aptitude or habitual capacity for work.

• Lane · entry 4805

عَمِلٌ

Of lightning, continuing or continual.

An adjectival use applied to persistent lightning.

• Lane · entry 4805

عَمِلَةٌ

Of a she-camel, brisk, light, active, or swift.

An animal epithet or noun for a naturally active she-camel.

• Lane · entry 4805

عَمْلَةٌ

Theft, treachery, perfidy, or unfaithfulness.

This feminine noun is reported as used only in relation to evil.

• Lane · entry 4806

عِمْلَةٌ

A mode or manner of working, serving, doing, acting, or making.

It can describe the manner or method by which gain is obtained, including a bad or corrupt mode of gain.

• Lane · entry 4808

عِمْلَةٌ

The internal state or condition of a person in relation to evil.

A specialized ethical or dispositional use.

• Lane · entry 4808

عَمِلَةٌ

A thing done, performed, or made; a completed product or action.

A result noun, including something that has been produced or carried out.

• Lane · entry 4809

عَمَلِيٌّ

Practical, factitious, artificial, or relating to actual operation rather than theory.

Used in opposition to عَلْمِيٌّ in the cited lexical contrast.

• Lane · entry 4811

عَمِلَ

In an idiom, to exceed ordinary bounds in annoying, reviling, or harassing someone.

A fixed intensified expression with a specialized object and construction.

• Lane · entry 4812

عَمَالَةٌ

The briskness, lightness, activity, or quickness of a she-camel.

A specialized animal noun.

• Lane · entry 4814

عُمَالَةٌ

The hire, pay, or recompense received for work, labor, or service.

A remuneration noun for the worker's compensation.

• Lane · entry 4815

عُمَالَةٌ

The state of being occupied or having work or service to perform.

It denotes employment or occupation as the opposite of idleness.

• Lane · entry 4815

عَمَّالٌ

One who does much work or labor, strives persistently, or continues at work.

An intensive adjectival form describing habitual or abundant exertion.

• Lane · entry 4818

عَامِلٌ

In the plural, a manual worker, especially one working with the hands in clay, building, digging, or similar occupations.

A specialized plural use of the active participle.

• Lane · entry 4819

عَامِلٌ

Of oxen, camels, or similar animals, one employed in plowing, treading grain, drawing water, or other labor.

The plural عَوَامِلُ is used for working animals and beasts of burden.

• Lane · entry 4819

عَامِلٌ

The part of a spear immediately below or next to the head, or its forepart exclusive of the head.

A technical weapon term; authorities differ on the exact portion and whether the spearhead itself is included.

• Lane · entry 4819

عَامِلَةٌ

As a substantive, a leg of a beast, horse, or similar animal.

This is a separate nominal use from the feminine active participle; its plural is associated with عَوَامِلُ.

• Lane · entry 4820

مُعْمَلٌ

A conspicuous, well-traveled road.

An adjectival description of a road marked by travel or use.

• Lane · entry 4821

مَعْمُولٌ

Done, made, or completed.

The ordinary passive-participial sense of the derived noun.

• Lane · entry 4822

مَعْمُولٌ

Of a beverage or wine, containing milk, honey, and snow.

A rare traditional descriptive use.

• Lane · entry 4822

مَعْمُولٌ

Of an ass, having had its testicles extracted.

A rare specialized animal use.

• Lane · entry 4822

مُسْتَعْمَلٌ

Of a camel, employed in work, labor, or service.

A passive participial adjective applied to a working animal.

• Lane · entry 4823

يَعْمَلٌ / يَعْمَلَةٌ

An excellent, strong, light, or swift camel; the feminine form specifically denotes a she-camel of this type.

These forms are also treated as substantives for the animals; يَوْمُ اليَعْمَلَةِ is recorded as a named day of conflict.

• Lane · entry 4824