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تَلّ
hill /ˈtall/
nounB1#2734 most common
Also: mound, knoll
Example sentences
التَّلُّ كَبيرٌ.
The hill is big.
صَعَدْنا التَّلَّ فِي الصَّباحِ.
We climbed the hill in the morning.
يَقِفُ البَيتُ فَوقَ التَّلِّ.
The house stands atop the hill.
شاهَدْنا غُروبَ الشَّمسِ مِن أَعلى التَّلِّ.
We watched the sunset from the top of the hill.
تُحيطُ بِالقَريَةِ عِدَّةُ تِلالٍ خَضراءَ.
Several green hills surround the village.
انتَصَبَتِ القَلعَةُ القَديمَةُ عَلى قِمَّةِ التَّلِّ المُطِلِّ عَلى الوادي.
The old castle stood on the summit of the hill overlooking the valley.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | تَلٌّ | تِلالٌ |
| Genitive | تَلٍّ | تِلالٍ |
| Accusative | تَلًّا | تِلالًا |
| Vocative | يا تَلُّ | يا تِلالُ |
Word family
تَلّةsmall hill, hillock
تِلالhills (plural)
تَلَّto heap up, pile
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root t-l-l, which carries the sense of heaping or piling up. The same root gives Hebrew tel, the word used for an archaeological mound formed by layers of ancient settlement. English borrowed this sense directly as 'tell,' the term archaeologists use for such mounds, as in Tell Abyad or Tell Halaf.
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