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أَذَلّ
to humiliate /ʔa.ðal.la/
verbB2#3514 most common
Also: to abase, to subjugate, to degrade
Example sentences
هُوَ أَذَلَّ صَدِيقَهُ أَمَامَ زُمَلَائِهِ.
He humiliated his friend in front of his colleagues.
لَا تُذِلَّ أَخَاكَ أَمَامَ النَّاسِ.
Do not humiliate your brother in front of people.
أَذَلَّتِ الْحَرْبُ الشَّعْبَ الْفَقِيرَ سَنَوَاتٍ طَوِيلَةً.
The war humiliated the poor people for long years.
يُذِلُّ الظَّالِمُ كُلَّ مَنْ يَقَعُ تَحْتَ سُلْطَتِهِ.
The oppressor humiliates everyone who falls under his authority.
أَذَلَّ الطَّاغِيَةُ خُصُومَهُ السِّيَاسِيِّينَ لِيُثْبِتَ سَيْطَرَتَهُ.
The tyrant humiliated his political opponents to prove his control.
مَنْ أَذَلَّ النَّاسَ بِجَبَرُوتِهِ لَنْ يَنْجُوَ مِنْ ذُلٍّ مِثْلِهِ يَوْمًا مَا.
Whoever humiliates people with his tyranny will not escape a similar humiliation someday.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُذِلّ | أَذْلَلْتُ | سَأُذِلّ |
| 2sg | تُذِلّ | أَذْلَلْتَ | سَتُذِلّ |
| 3sg | يُذِلّ | أَذَلَّ | سَيُذِلّ |
| 1pl | نُذِلّ | أَذْلَلْنَا | سَنُذِلّ |
| 2pl | تُذِلّون | أَذْلَلْتُمْ | سَتُذِلّون |
| 3pl | يُذِلّون | أَذَلُّوا | سَيُذِلّون |
Word family
ذَلِيلhumiliated, lowly, abject
ذُلّhumiliation, disgrace, abasement
تَذَلَّلَto humble oneself, to grovel
اِسْتَذَلَّto treat as lowly, to subjugate
ذِلَّةsubmissiveness, humiliation
Etymology
أَذَلَّ is the Form IV causative of the triliteral Semitic root ذ-ل-ل, which carries the sense of lowliness and submission. The bare root gives ذَلَّ, meaning to be low or humbled, and the added hamza prefix turns this into a causative: to make someone low, to humiliate. The root and its meaning are old and stable across Semitic languages.
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