mawʾil

refuge, asylum

مَوْئِل

Word

Noun · pattern مَفْعِل

Root

و ء ل

In the library

تريك عجائباً بمن كان موئلا

The Muqaddimah, page 322 →

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 2 entries
  • وَأَلَ Form I Open entry
    : see آلَ, in art. اول, in two places.
  • أَوَّلُ First, and former; preceding all others, and preceding another
    First, and former; preceding all others, and preceding another. See art. أول ― -b2- أَوَايأِلُ السُّوَرِ The first parts, or beginnings, of the chapters of the Kur-án. ― -b3- جَآءَ فِى أَوَايأِلِ القَوْمِ He came among the first comers of the people. (Msb.) ― -b4- And الأَوَايأِلُ The people of former ages; as also الأَوَّلُونَ. ― -b5- لَقِيتُهُ عَامًا أَوَّلَ means I met him [in a former year.] before this year, though by several years. (Alee El-Kári, in his Expos. of the K, from Seer; cited in the margin of a copy of the K; art. اول.) See عَامٌ.

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