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عَطَّل
to disable, to put out of action /ˈʕatˤ.tˤa.la/
verbB2#3534 most common
Also: to hold up, delay, obstruct, to suspend (work, a law, an activity), to render idle or unemployed
Example sentences
عَطَّلَ الولدُ اللعبةَ.
The boy broke the toy.
لا تُعَطِّلِ الحاسوبَ.
Don't disable the computer.
عَطَّلَ المطرُ الشديدُ حركةَ الطيرانِ في المطارِ.
Heavy rain disrupted flight operations at the airport.
قرَّرَ المديرُ أن يُعَطِّلَ العملَ يوماً واحداً بسبب الصيانةِ.
The manager decided to suspend work for one day because of maintenance.
عَطَّلَتِ الإجراءاتُ القانونيةُ المعقدةُ توقيعَ الاتفاقيةِ لأشهرٍ عدة.
The complicated legal procedures held up the signing of the agreement for several months.
على الرغم من عدم رغبته في ذلك، اضطُرَّ الوزيرُ إلى أن يُعَطِّلَ تنفيذَ القرارِ نظراً للاحتجاجاتِ الشعبيةِ الواسعةِ التي اجتاحت البلاد.
Despite his reluctance, the minister was forced to suspend the decision's implementation, given the widespread popular protests that swept the country.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُعَطِّلُ | عَطَّلْتُ | سَأُعَطِّلُ |
| 2sg | تُعَطِّلُ | عَطَّلْتَ | سَتُعَطِّلُ |
| 3sg | يُعَطِّلُ | عَطَّلَ | سَيُعَطِّلُ |
| 1pl | نُعَطِّلُ | عَطَّلْنَا | سَنُعَطِّلُ |
| 2pl | تُعَطِّلُونَ | عَطَّلْتُمْ | سَتُعَطِّلُونَ |
| 3pl | يُعَطِّلُونَ | عَطَّلُوا | سَيُعَطِّلُونَ |
Word family
عاطلunemployed, jobless
عُطلةvacation, holiday, day off
تعطّلto break down, stop working (intransitive)
تعطيلdisruption, suspension, disabling
مُعَطَّلdisabled, out of order, broken down
Etymology
عَطَّل comes from the native Arabic triliteral root ع-ط-ل, which carries the sense of idleness or being out of use. The base verb عَطِلَ means simply to be idle or unemployed. عَطَّل is the Form II derivation of that root, made by doubling the middle radical, which turns a state (being idle) into a caused action (making something idle). This is a regular pattern in Arabic verb morphology, not a borrowing from another language.
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