والع

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Arabic

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Etymology

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

Adjective

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

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

Declension

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Noun

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وَالِع (wāliʕm (plural وَلَعَة (walaʕa))

  1. liar

Declension

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References

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  • 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[1] (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[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1604