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♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘very long and broad distinct sand dune; to ascertain, to discriminate; to mull over; to hope, expectations’

▪ ʔML_1 : …
▪ ʔML_2 : from ↗²ʔamr or an item akin to ↗ʔamāraẗ.
▪ ʔML_3 : …

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▪ DRS 1 (1994) #ʔML-1 Hbr ʔumlal ‘se faner (plante), se déssécher (huile)’. -2 Ar ʔamala ‘espérer’. -3 taʔammala ‘examiner’. -4 ʔamīl ‘dunes de sable’. -5 Syr ʔāmelā ‘manteau, tapis’. -6 Soq ʔamal ‘courge’. -7 Akk amal-: sorte de pin.
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ʔamal‑ أَمَلَ , u (ʔamal)

√ʔML

vb., I

to hope (DO or bi for), entertain hopes (of) – WehrCowan1976.

▪ Perh. denom. from the n. ʔamal ‘hope’.
▪ The vb. V, ↗taʔammala ‘to look attentively, observe, regard, contemplate, ponder, reflect’, is usually not derived from ʔamala ‘to hope’, but from ↗²ʔamr (*‘to observe an issue, a fact’) and/or ↗ʔamāraẗ (*‘to let o.s. be guided by a sign, a token, an indicator of s.th.’).
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▪ eC7 (hope, desire, expectation) Q 15:3 ḏar-hum yaʔkulū wa-yatamattaʕū wa-yulhi-himu ’l-ʔamalu fa-sawfa yaʕlamūna ‘Let them eat and enjoy life, and let (false) hope beguile them. They will come to know!’
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▪ No direct cognates outside Ar.
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► ʔammala, vb. II, 1a to hope; b to expect (s.th. min of s.o.): D-stem, ints., denom. from ʔamal. 2 to raise hopes (DO in s.o.), hold out hopes (for s.o.), give (s.o.) reason to hope or expect: D-stem, caus. of I. | ʔammalahū ḫayr^an, vb. II, to let s.o. hope for the best.
► ^BP#3097taʔammala, vb. V, ↗s.v.

► ^BP#648ʔamal, pl. ʔāmāl, n., hope, expectation (fī of s.th., also bi‑): vn. I, perh. the etymon proper from which vb. I is denom. | ʔamal kāḏib, n., fallacious hope.
► maʔmal, pl. maʔāmilᵘ, n., hope: n.loc., *‘place/object/aim to direct one’s hoping to, to put one’s hope in’.
► ^BP#4394taʔammul, pl. ‑āt, n., ↗taʔammala.
► ʔāmil, adj., hopeful: PA I.
► muʔammil, adj., hopeful: PA II.
► maʔmūl, adj., hoped for, expected: PP I.
► mutaʔammil, adj., ↗taʔammala.

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗taʔammala, as well as, for the whole picture, ↗√ʔMR and ↗√ʔML.

taʔammal‑ تَأَمَّلَ (taʔammul)

√ʔML

vb., V

1 to look attentively (DO, fī at), regard, contemplate; 2a to meditate; b to consider, think over, ponder, reflect (DO, fī s.th.) – WehrCowan1976.

▪ vn. V, but prob. not from √ʔML, but from ʔMR, with assumed sound shift *r > l.¹ . Thus, it may originally have been *taʔammara and meant s.th. like *‘to take notice of s.th., take s.th. as an indicator\sign for o.s.’, so that the word would be akin to ʔMR items that either express the visibility (=observability) and, hence, evident existence of facts, issues, cases, etc. (↗²ʔamr) or underline the deictic character of s.th. visible (↗ʔamāraẗ).
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1. Moscati1946: 116, reporting and confirming an idea put forward earlier by C. Brockelmann, Grundriss, I: 221, and J. Barth, “Verschiebung der Liquidae im Assyrischen”, ZA 3 (1888): 57-61, 60.

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▪ ↗²ʔamr, ↗²ʔamāraẗ.
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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►^BP#4394taʔammul, pl. ‑āt, n., 1 consideration; 2 contemplation; pl. taʔammulāt, meditations: vn. V.
►mutaʔammil, adj., 1a contemplative, meditative, reflective; b pensive, wistful, musing: PA V.

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ʔamala, as well as, for the whole picture, ↗√ʔML and ↗√ʔMR.

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