علني

Arabic

Root
ع ل ن (ʕ-l-n)

Etymology

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of عَلَن (ʕalan, public; openness) + ـِيّ (-iyy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʕa.la.nijj/

Adjective

عَلَنِيّ • (ʕalaniyy) (feminine عَلَنِيَّة (ʕalaniyya), masculine plural عَلَنِيُّونَ (ʕalaniyyūna), feminine plural عَلَنِيَّات (ʕalaniyyāt))

  1. public, open
    Antonym: سِرِّيّ (sirriyy)

Declension

Descendants

  • Persian: علنی ('alani)
  • Ottoman Turkish: علنی (alenî)

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “علني”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 214
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “علني”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2142
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “علني”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 871
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