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أَطْوَل
taller, longer /ˈʔatˤwal/
adjectiveB1#1474 most common
Also: the tallest, the longest, more tall or long
Example sentences
هُوَ أَطْوَلُ مِنِّي.
He is taller than me.
أَخِي أَطْوَلُ وَلَدٍ فِي الصَّفِّ.
My brother is the tallest boy in the class.
هَذَا الطَّرِيقُ أَطْوَلُ مِنَ الطَّرِيقِ الآخَرِ.
This road is longer than the other road.
يُعَدُّ نَهْرُ النِّيلِ مِنْ أَطْوَلِ الأَنْهَارِ فِي العَالَمِ.
The Nile is considered one of the longest rivers in the world.
كَانَتْ مُحَاضَرَتُهُ أَطْوَلَ مِمَّا تَوَقَّعْنَا بِكَثِيرٍ.
His lecture was much longer than we expected.
كُلَّمَا طَالَ الِانْتِظَارُ، بَدَا اللَّيْلُ أَطْوَلَ وَأَكْثَرَ وَحْشَةً.
The longer the wait, the longer and lonelier the night seemed.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أَطْوَلُ | أَطَاوِلُ |
| Genitive | أَطْوَلَ | أَطَاوِلَ |
| Accusative | أَطْوَلَ | أَطَاوِلَ |
| Vocative | أَطْوَلُ | أَطَاوِلُ |
Word family
طَوِيلlong, tallطُولlength, height
طَالَto be or become long
أَطَالَto lengthen, to prolong
الطُّولَىthe longest, the tallest (feminine)
Etymology
أَطْوَل is the elative form of the adjective طَوِيل, meaning 'long' or 'tall', and it serves as both comparative and superlative. It is built from the triconsonantal root ط-و-ل, which carries the sense of length and height, on the أَفْعَل pattern that Arabic uses to mean 'more' or 'most'. The same root gives the verb طَالَ, 'to be long', and the noun طُول, 'length'.
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