Dictionaries › Arabic

عمل

Pronunciation: /ʕa.mi.la/

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

verb

  1. to work, perform
  2. to do (with deliberate thought)
  3. to practice, profess
  4. to produce an effect
  5. to be brisk, walk fast
  6. to exercise an influence
  7. to govern a case
  8. to take pains (عَلَى (ʕalā) with)
  9. to work to an end
  10. to take care of
  11. to last without interruption
  12. to pay (someone) their fee or wages
  13. to make (someone) an administrator or governor
  14. to suppurate, grow cancerous

noun

  1. action, act, deed
  2. work, business
  3. government

Etymology

The grammatical “government” meaning is a semantic loan from Medieval Latin vīs. Compare Hebrew עָמָל (amál, “work, deed”).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “عمل” there

More Arabic words

About this dictionary

The Arabic dictionary on Glottosphere has 19,491 entries with a page. Browse the Arabic dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.