أهل

From Proto-Semitic *ʔahl-.

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أَهْل • (ʔahl) m or pl (plural أَهْلُونَ (ʔahlūna) or أَهَالٍ (ʔahālin), plural construct state أَهَالِي (ʔahālī))

1. family, household; people, kinfolk, relations

   Synonyms: أُسْرَة (ʔusra), آل (ʔāl)

2. (dated) wife
   • (Can we date this quote?), al-Ṭabarī, جامع البيان في تأويل القرآن [The Compilation of Qur'anic Interpretations]:

     عن ابن عباس، في قوله: ﴿لِيَسْتَأْذِنْكُمُ الَّذِينَ مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُكُمْ﴾ يقول: إذا خلا الرجل بأهله بعد صلاة العشاء، فلا يدخل عليه خادم ولا صبيّ إلا بإذن حتى يصلي الغداة، فإذا خلا بأهله عند صلاة الظهر فمثل ذلك.

     [It was related] that Ibn Abbas said this regarding the verse "And those whom your right hand possesses must ask for your permission [to enter]": "If the man retires with his wife after the night prayer, no servant or young boy may enter till he finishes the prayer of dawn, and also when he is alone with his wife during the time of the noon prayer.

   • (Can we date this quote?), al-Qurṭubī, الجامع لأحكام القرآن [The Collection of the Ordainments of the Qur'an]:

     قال مالك: (ومن بعد صلاة العشاء) فالله سماها صلاة العشاء فأحب النبي - صلى الله عليه وسلم - أن تسمى بما سماها الله تعالى به ويعلمها الإنسان أهله وولده

     Mālik said, "'And after the night prayer' [shows that] Allah called it 'the night prayer', and so the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, liked it to be called what Allah called it and [liked] the man to teach it [thus] to his wife and children.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Ibn Kaṯīr, تفسير القرآن العظيم [The Interpretation of the Great Qur'an]:

     (وحين تضعون ثيابكم من الظهيرة) أي: في وقت القيلولة؛ لأن الإنسان قد يضع ثيابه في تلك الحال مع أهله، (ومن بعد صلاة العشاء) لأنه وقت النوم، فيؤمر الخدم والأطفال ألا يهجموا على أهل البيت في هذه الأحوال، لما يُخشى من أن يكون الرجل على أهله ونحو ذلك من الأعمال

     "And when you put off your clothes from noon," that is, nap time, since the man could take off his clothes [when] with his wife, "and after the night prayer" because it is sleeping time, so [all] servants and children are ordered not to burst in on the people of the house at those times in case the man is with [literally "on"] his wife or something like that.

3. people, membership (body of members), followership (group of followers) [with genitive ‘of’]
   1. adherents [with genitive ‘of’]

      أَهْل الْحَدِيث ― ʔahl al-ḥadīṯ ― the adherents of traditions

      أَهْل الْكِتَاب ― ʔahl al-kitāb ― the adherents of the Book

   2. experts [with genitive ‘in’]

      أَهْل الطِّب ― ʔahl aṭ-ṭib ― medical experts

4. inhabitants

   أَهْل الْقَرْيَة ― ʔahl al-qarya ― the inhabitants of the village

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 29:31:

     وَلَمَّا جَاءَتْ رُسُلُنَا إِبْرَاهِيمَ بِالْبُشْرَىٰ قَالُوا إِنَّا مُهْلِكُو أَهْلِ هَٰذِهِ الْقَرْيَةِ ۖ إِنَّ أَهْلَهَا كَانُوا ظَالِمِينَ

     walammā jāʔat rusulunā ʔibrāhīma bi-l-bušrā qālū ʔinnā muhlikū ʔahli hāḏihi l-qaryatiʔinna ʔahlahā kānū ẓālimīna

     And when Our messengers brought Abraham the good news, they said: Lo! we are about to destroy the people of that township, for its people are wrong-doers.

     Translated by Marmaduke Pickthall

• أَهْلُ مَكَّةَ أَدْرَى بِشِعَابِهَا (ʔahlu makkata ʔadrā bišiʕābihā)

• Judeo-Arabic: אהל (ʾahlun)
• → Afar: áhli, aháli
• → Hatran Aramaic: 𐣠𐣤𐣫 (ʾhl, “family”)
• → Christian Palestinian Aramaic: ܐܗܠ (ʾhl, “family”)
• → Azerbaijani: əhl
• → Persian: اهل (ahl)
• → Sindhi: اهل (ahl)
• → Swahili: ahali
• → Ottoman Turkish: اهل (ehl)
• → Uzbek: ahl
• → Uyghur: ئەھل (ehl)

أَهَلَ • (ʔahala) I (non-past يَأْهِلُ (yaʔhilu) or يَأْهُلُ (yaʔhulu), verbal noun أُهُول (ʔuhūl))

1. to get married

أَهِلَ or أَهَلَ • (ʔahila or ʔahala) I (non-past يَأْهَلُ (yaʔhalu), verbal noun أَهَل (ʔahal))

1. to be on familiar terms [with بِ (bi) ‘with’]
2. (transitive) to become accustomed to (a place)

أُهِلَ • (ʔuhila) I (passive-only, non-past يُؤْهَلُ (yuʔhalu), verbal noun أُهُول (ʔuhūl)) (passive voice)
أَهَلَ • (ʔahala) I (non-past يَأْهُلُ (yaʔhulu), verbal noun أُهُول (ʔuhūl))

1. (stative) to be inhabited, be populated

أَهْل • (ʔahl) (feminine أَهْل (ʔahl), masculine dual أَهْل (ʔahl), common plural أَهْل (ʔahl))

1. deserving, worthy
2. fit, suited, qualified, eligible, competent

• أَهْلًا (ʔahlan)
• أَهْلًا وَسَهْلًا (ʔahlan wa-sahlan)

أَهَل • (ʔahal) m

1. verbal noun of أَهِلَ (ʔahila) (form I)
2. verbal noun of أَهَلَ (ʔahala) (form I)
3. familiarization (with)
4. accustomization (to a place)

أَهَّلَ • (ʔahhala) II (non-past يُؤَهِّلُ (yuʔahhilu), verbal noun تَأْهِيل (taʔhīl))

1. to qualify, to empower, to make capable, to make fit, to make suited, to habilitate
2. to deem suited, to consider fit, to judge worthy

أَهَلَّ • (ʔahalla) IV (non-past يُهِلُّ (yuhillu), verbal noun إِهْلَال (ʔihlāl))

1. to begin, to come to light
2. to bring, to offer

From Arabic أَهَّلَ (ʔahhala).

• IPA^(key): /ʔah.hal/, [ˈʔah.hal]

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أهّل • (ʔahhal) II (present بأهّل (biʔahhel))

1. to train, to qualify
2. to welcome, to greet

   Synonym: سلّم (sallam)

3. (transitive) to marry

   Synonym: زوّج (zawwaj)

From Arabic أَهْل (ʔahl).

• IPA^(key): /ʔahl/, [ˈʔa.h(ɪ)l]

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أهل • (ʔahl) m (plural أهالي (ʔahāli))

1. parents

   Synonym: (formal) والدين (wālidēn)

2. family (the extended family)
3. people

• عيلة (ʕēle, “nuclear family”)