أول
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أول¹
- /ʔaw.wal/
adjective أَوَّل · ʔawwal · ʔūlā · ʔawwalūn · ʔawāʔil · أَوَالِي
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first
Opposite: آخِر
noun أَوَّل · ʔawwal · ʔawāʔil · أَوَالِي · الْأَوَّل
- first part, beginning قَرَأْتُ أَوَّلَ الْكِتَابِ.
أول²
Where it comes from
From Proto-Semitic *ʔil-, otherwise أَيْل (ʔayl), إِيل (ʔīl), إِلّ (ʔill), the most important god in the paganic pantheon—equivalent to the Sun, after which in the Western world the Sunday is named, in others. Origin from “first” above is unlikely since all other pagan weekday names are named after planets and thus indirectly gods and the other Semitic languages there employ *ʔaḥad-, which would have been retained. Lastly the Banu Bakr and Taghlib tribes actually worshiped a deity called أَوَال (ʔawāl) or أُوَال (ʔuwāl).
proper noun أَوْل · أَوَّل · ʔawl · ʔawwal · -
- Sunday
أول³
Where it comes from
Causative to آلَ (ʔāla, “to return”), semantically like German zurückführen, and paralleling Arabic عَبَّرَ (ʕabbara, “to get across”).
verb أَوَّلَ · ʔawwala · يُؤَوِّلُ · تَأْوِيل · مُؤَوِّل
- to lead back; to bid to return
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to interpret, to explain
Similar: تَأَوَّلَ
In English
Talk about this word "أول." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. أول. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84 "أول." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84.Cite this
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