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أَقَلّ
less /ʔaˈqall/
nounA1#234 most common
Also: fewer, least, lower (in amount)
Example sentences
السِّعْرُ أَقَلّ هُنا.
The price is lower here.
أَنا آكُلُ أَقَلّ مِنْ أَخي.
I eat less than my brother.
أَصْبَحَ عَدَدُ الطُّلّابِ أَقَلّ هٰذا العامَ.
The number of students became smaller this year.
نُريدُ إِنْفاقًا أَقَلّ وَنَتائِجَ أَفْضَل.
We want less spending and better results.
تُشيرُ الدِّراسَةُ إِلى أَنَّ الدُّوَلَ الأَقَلَّ دَخْلًا هِيَ الأَكْثَرُ تَضَرُّرًا.
The study indicates that the lower-income countries are the most affected.
أَقَلُّ ما يُمْكِنُ قَوْلُهُ إِنَّ القَرارَ كانَ مُتَسَرِّعًا.
The least that can be said is that the decision was hasty.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أَقَلُّ | أَقَلُّونَ |
| Genitive | أَقَلَّ | أَقَلِّينَ |
| Accusative | أَقَلَّ | أَقَلِّينَ |
| Vocative | يا أَقَلُّ | يا أَقَلُّونَ |
Word family
قَليلfew, little
أَكْثَرmore, most (the opposite elative)قَلَّلَto reduce, decrease
أَقَلِّيَّةminority
عَلى الأَقَلّat least
Etymology
أَقَلّ is the elative of the adjective قَليل, meaning few or little. Both come from the Semitic root q-l-l, which carries the sense of being small, light, or scant. The pattern أَفْعَل turns the base adjective into the comparative less or fewer and the superlative least.
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