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ذَيْل
tail /ˈðajl/
nounB2#3324 most common
Also: train (of a garment), appendix/postscript, bottom (of a list or ranking)
Example sentences
لِلْقِطَّةِ ذَيْلٌ طَوِيلٌ.
The cat has a long tail.
أَمْسَكَ الطِّفْلُ بِذَيْلِ الْكَلْبِ.
The child grabbed the dog's tail.
يَهُزُّ الْكَلْبُ ذَيْلَهُ عِنْدَمَا يَكُونُ سَعِيدًا.
The dog wags its tail when it is happy.
كَانَ ذَيْلُ فُسْتَانِهَا يَجُرُّ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ.
Her dress's train dragged on the floor.
احْتَلَّ الْفَرِيقُ ذَيْلَ تَرْتِيبِ الدُّورِيِّ هَذَا الْمَوْسِمَ.
The team sat at the bottom of the league standings this season.
أَضَافَ الْمُؤَلِّفُ ذَيْلًا لِلْكِتَابِ يَتَضَمَّنُ مُلَاحَظَاتٍ إِضَافِيَّةً.
The author added an appendix to the book with extra notes.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ذَيْلٌ | أَذْيَالٌ |
| Genitive | ذَيْلٍ | أَذْيَالٍ |
| Accusative | ذَيْلًا | أَذْيَالًا |
| Vocative | يَا ذَيْلُ | يَا أَذْيَالُ |
Word family
ذيول (dhuyūl)tails; also aftermath or repercussions
ذيّل (dhayyala)to append or sign a document
تذييل (tadhyīl)footnote, appendix
مذيل (mudhayyal)appended, signed at the end
ذيلي (dhaylī)caudal, tail-related
Etymology
Dhayl comes from the Semitic root dh-y-l, which carries the sense of something trailing or dragging behind. The base noun names an animal's tail, and Arabic extended it to anything that trails a main body: a garment's hem, the last spot on a ranked list, or a postscript tacked onto a text. Arabic is a Semitic language, not an Indo-European one, so it has no Indo-European root or cognates in that family.
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