دالية

Arabic

Etymology

Root
د ل و (d l w)
5 terms

From دَلْو (dalw, “bucket”) or related دَلَا (dalā, “to suspend, to let down in the water”) in the sense of a waterwheel; in all other senses presumed semantic loan from Aramaic דָלִיתָא / ܕܳܠܻܝܬ݂ܳܐ (dālīṯā, “vine; varicose vein”), although the sense of the deltoid muscle appears to be an Arabic figurative development from the idea of an espalier, which disregarded the more traditional medical sense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daː.li.ja/

Noun

دَالِيَة • (dāliya) f (plural دَوَالٍ (dawālin), plural construct state دَوَالِي (dawālī))

1. noria, waterwheel

   Synonyms: سَانِيَة (sāniya), ناعُورَة (nāʕūra), سَاقِيَة (sāqiya)

2. vine

   Synonyms: جَفْنَة (jafna), كَرْمَة (karma)

3. espalier, railing

   Synonyms: عَرِيش (ʕarīš), تَكْعِيبَة (takʕība), سَقِيفَة (saqīfa)

4. (anatomy) deltoid
5. (medicine) varix; varicosis

Declension

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دَالِيَة dāliya	الدَّالِيَة ad-dāliya	دَالِيَة dāliyat
Nominative	دَالِيَةٌ dāliyatun	الدَّالِيَةُ ad-dāliyatu	دَالِيَةُ dāliyatu
Accusative	دَالِيَةً dāliyatan	الدَّالِيَةَ ad-dāliyata	دَالِيَةَ dāliyata
Genitive	دَالِيَةٍ dāliyatin	الدَّالِيَةِ ad-dāliyati	دَالِيَةِ dāliyati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دَالِيَتَيْن dāliyatayn	الدَّالِيَتَيْن ad-dāliyatayn	دَالِيَتَيْ dāliyatay
Nominative	دَالِيَتَانِ dāliyatāni	الدَّالِيَتَانِ ad-dāliyatāni	دَالِيَتَا dāliyatā
Accusative	دَالِيَتَيْنِ dāliyatayni	الدَّالِيَتَيْنِ ad-dāliyatayni	دَالِيَتَيْ dāliyatay
Genitive	دَالِيَتَيْنِ dāliyatayni	الدَّالِيَتَيْنِ ad-dāliyatayni	دَالِيَتَيْ dāliyatay
Plural	broken plural diptote in ـٍ (-in)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دَوَالِي dawālī	الدَّوَالِي ad-dawālī	دَوَالِي dawālī
Nominative	دَوَالٍ dawālin	الدَّوَالِي ad-dawālī	دَوَالِي dawālī
Accusative	دَوَالِيَ dawāliya	الدَّوَالِيَ ad-dawāliya	دَوَالِيَ dawāliya
Genitive	دَوَالٍ dawālin	الدَّوَالِي ad-dawālī	دَوَالِي dawālī

Declension of noun دَالِيَة (dāliya)

Descendants

• Maltese: dielja
• → Middle Armenian: տոլի (toli, “vine; varix”), տոյլի (toyli), տելի (teli), տավալի (tavali)
  • Armenian: դիլլա (dilla), դիլի (dili)
• → Persian: دوالی (davâli, “varicose vein”)

References

• “dly”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 173
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “دالية”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 53
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎ (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 88
• Fīrūzābādī (1834) Al-uqiyānūs al-basīt‎, 2nd edition, volume III, translated from Arabic into Ottoman Turkish by Aḥmad ʻĀṣim, Constantinople, page 213
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “տոլի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 416ab
• Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 183
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 476