ميل

See also: میل

Arabic

Etymology 1

From م ي ل (m-y-l), meaning to incline, to bend, to lean.

Verb

مَيِلَ • (mayila) I, non-past يَمْيَلُ‎ (yamyalu)

  1. to have one side of the body inclined
Conjugation

Verb

مَيَّلَ • (mayyala) II, non-past يُمَيِّلُ‎ (yumayyilu)

  1. to make [+direct object] inclined, sympathetic, favourably disposed to [+إِلَى (object)]
  2. to incline, tilt, bend, bow [+direct object]
  3. to make [+direct object] disinclined, averse, alienated, turned away from [+عَنْ (object)]
Conjugation

Noun

مَيْل • (mayl) m (plural مُيُول (muyūl))

  1. verbal noun of مَالَ (māla, “to lean”) (form I)
  2. inclination, tendency
  3. goodwill, sympathy
  4. taste, disposition, a mind for
Declension
Descendants
  • → Azerbaijani: meyil
  • → Ottoman Turkish: میل (meyl, meyil)
    > Turkish: meyil (inherited)
  • → Persian: میل (meyl)
  • → Uyghur: مەيىل (meyil)
  • → Uzbek: mayl

Noun

مَيَل • (mayal) m

  1. verbal noun of مَيِلَ (mayila) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin mīlle passuum (literally “a thousand of paces”); compare Classical Syriac ܡܝܠܐ (mīlā) and Hebrew מַיְל (mayl). The reach of an eye originates from a folk etymology explaining the distance of a mile, literally the distance to which the eye reaches along land before the horizon curves out of sight.

Noun

مِيل • (mīl) m (plural أَمْيَال (ʔamyāl) or مُيُول (muyūl))

  1. reach of the eye, as far as one can see
  2. mile
  3. milestone, column, obelisk, boundary stone
  4. hand of a sundial
Declension
Descendants
  • → Ottoman Turkish: میل (mil)

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek μήλη (mḗlē, “probe”).

Noun

مَيْل • (mayl) m (plural مُيُول (muyūl)) (obsolete)

  1. a kind of metal probe in form of a needle for applying collyrium or other treatments
Declension
Descendants
  • → Ottoman Turkish: میل (mil)

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 261
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ميل”, 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, pages 1174–1175
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 48

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

مِيل • (mīl) m pl or f pl

  1. plural of أَمْيَل (ʔamyal, “leaning to one side”)

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

مِيلَ • (mīla) (form I)

  1. third-person masculine singular past passive of مَالَ (māla)
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