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عَمِل
to work /ˈʕa.mi.la/
verbA1#136 most common
Also: to do, to make, to act
Example sentences
أَعْمَلُ فِي مَطْعَمٍ.
I work in a restaurant.
عَمِلَ أَخِي طَبِيبًا.
My brother worked as a doctor.
مَاذَا عَمِلْتَ أَمْسِ؟
What did you do yesterday?
تَعْمَلُ الشَّرِكَةُ عَلَى تَطْوِيرِ مُنْتَجٍ جَدِيدٍ.
The company is working on developing a new product.
عَمِلَ جَاهِدًا طَوَالَ حَيَاتِهِ لِيُؤَمِّنَ مُسْتَقْبَلَ أَطْفَالِهِ.
He worked hard all his life to secure his children's future.
مَنْ عَمِلَ صَالِحًا فَلِنَفْسِهِ وَمَنْ أَسَاءَ فَعَلَيْهَا.
Whoever does good does so for himself, and whoever does evil does so against himself.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَعْمَلُ | عَمِلْتُ | سَأَعْمَلُ |
| 2sg | تَعْمَلُ | عَمِلْتَ | سَتَعْمَلُ |
| 3sg | يَعْمَلُ | عَمِلَ | سَيَعْمَلُ |
| 1pl | نَعْمَلُ | عَمِلْنَا | سَنَعْمَلُ |
| 2pl | تَعْمَلُونَ | عَمِلْتُمْ | سَتَعْمَلُونَ |
| 3pl | يَعْمَلُونَ | عَمِلُوا | سَيَعْمَلُونَ |
Word family
عَمَل (ʿamal)work, deed
عَامِل (ʿāmil)worker
اِسْتَعْمَلَ (istaʿmala)to use
مَعْمَل (maʿmal)factory, laboratory
عَمَلِيّ (ʿamalī)practical
Etymology
عَمِل comes from the Semitic root ʿ-m-l, which carries the sense of doing, making, and labor. The same root gives Hebrew ʿāmāl, meaning toil or trouble, and related forms in Aramaic. Arabic kept the plain sense of working alongside the older notion of hard effort. The word is purely Semitic and has no Indo-European source.
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