עלי
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Arabic[edit]
Preposition[edit]
עלי • (ʕalā)
- Judeo-Arabic spelling of عَلَى (ʕalā, “on, upon, over”)
- c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir[1], Exodus 1:8:
- וקאם מלך גׄדיד עלי מצר מן לם ישאהד יוסף׃
- waqāma malikun jadīdun ʕalā miṣra man lam yušāhid yūsufa.
- And a new king arose over Egypt who had not witnessed Joseph.
Hebrew[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Root |
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ע־ל־ה (ʿ-l-h) |
From Proto-Semitic *ʿall-, *ʿaly- (“high; height, elevation”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʿal-, *ʿVl(ay)- (“to be high, tall; to rise; mountain”).
Related to Arabic عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy, “to be high, exalted; Ali (exalted one)”), Maltese għoli.
Proper noun[edit]
עֵלִי • ('eli) m
- Eli, an Israelite high priest.
- a male given name, Eli
Etymology 2[edit]
Root |
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ע־ל־ה (ʿ-l-h) |
Cognate to Arabic عَلَى (ʕalā), Maltese għal.
Preposition[edit]
עֲלֵי • ('aléi)
Preposition[edit]
עָלַי • (aláy)
- Form of עַל including first-person singular personal pronoun as object, defective spelling.
Etymology 3[edit]
Adjective[edit]
עִלִּי • (ilí) (feminine עִלִּית, masculine plural עִלִּים or עִלִּיִּים, feminine plural עִלִּיּוֹת)
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- Arabic lemmas
- Arabic prepositions
- Judeo-Arabic
- Arabic terms with quotations
- Hebrew terms belonging to the root ע־ל־ה
- Hebrew terms inherited from Proto-Semitic
- Hebrew terms derived from Proto-Semitic
- Hebrew terms inherited from Proto-Afroasiatic
- Hebrew terms derived from Proto-Afroasiatic
- Hebrew lemmas
- Hebrew proper nouns
- Hebrew masculine nouns
- Hebrew given names
- Hebrew male given names
- Hebrew prepositions
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- Hebrew poetic terms
- Hebrew preposition forms
- Hebrew adjectives
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