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أهل

“أهل” is an Arabic word. Its 17 meanings in English:

noun

  1. family, household; people, kinfolk, relations
  2. wife
  3. adherents
  4. experts
  5. inhabitants
  6. familiarization (with)
  7. accustomization (to a place)

verb

  1. to get married
  2. to be on familiar terms
  3. to become accustomed to (a place)
  4. to be inhabited, be populated
  5. to qualify, to empower, to make capable, to make fit, to make suited, to habilitate
  6. to deem suited, to consider fit, to judge worthy
  7. to begin, to come to light
  8. to bring, to offer

adjective

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

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔahl-.

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