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خِلالَ
during /xiˈlaːla/
particleA1#226 most common
Also: in the course of, through (by means of), amid
Example sentences
أَدْرُسُ خِلالَ اللَّيْلِ.
I study during the night.
سافَرْنا كَثيراً خِلالَ الصَّيْفِ.
We traveled a lot during the summer.
تَعَلَّمْتُ العَرَبِيَّةَ خِلالَ سَنَتَيْنِ.
I learned Arabic over the course of two years.
خِلالَ الاجْتِماعِ، ناقَشْنا المَشاكِلَ الرَّئيسِيَّةَ.
During the meeting, we discussed the main problems.
تَغَيَّرَتِ المَدينَةُ كَثيراً خِلالَ العُقودِ الماضِيَةِ.
The city changed greatly over the past decades.
مِنْ خِلالِ تَحْليلِ البَياناتِ، تَوَصَّلَ الباحِثونَ إِلى نَتائِجَ غَيْرِ مُتَوَقَّعَةٍ.
Through analyzing the data, the researchers reached unexpected results.
Word family
خَلَلdefect, gap, flaw
تَخَلَّلَto permeate, to intersperse
مِنْ خِلالِthrough, by means of
خِلالinterval; toothpick
خَلَّto pierce, to perforate
Etymology
خِلالَ comes from the Semitic root خ ل ل, which points to a gap or the space between things. The noun خِلال first named those intervals, and as an adverbial noun it came to mark the span of time within which something happens. The same root gives خَلَل, a defect or gap, and the verb خَلَّ, to pierce.
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