إل

Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʾil- the sense God might have been loaned or enforced from Hebrew or Phoenician.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʔill/
  • IPA(key): /ʔil/

Noun

إِلّ or إِل • (ʾill or ʾil) m or f

  1. god, deity, God
  2. vow

South Levantine Arabic

Preposition

إلـ • (ʾil-)

  1. to; for (detached version of the indirect object suffix ـلـ‎ (-l-), used for emphasis)
    ‏كتبلي‎ ― katab-li ― he wrote to me
    ‏كتب إلي، مش إلك‎ ― katab ʾili, miš ʾilak ― he wrote to me, not to you
  2. belonging to (mine, yours etc.)
    ‏هادا إلك‎ ― hāda ʾilak ― that is yours
    ‏صاحب إله‎ ― ṣāḥeb ʾilo ― a friend of him
    ‏إلي أخ وأخت‎ ― ʾili ʾaḵḵ w-ʾuẖt ― I have (to me belong) a brother and sister
    Synonym: لإلـ‎ (laʾil-)

Inflection
    Inflected forms of إل
Base form إلـ (ʾil-)
Personal-pronoun-
including forms		 singular plural
m f
1st person إلي‎ (ʾili) إلنا‎ (ʾilna)
2nd person إلك‎ (ʾilak) إلك‎ (ʾilek) إلكم‎ (ʾilkom)
3rd person إله‎ (ʾilo) إلها‎ (ʾilha) إلهم‎ (ʾilhom)
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