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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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muqāwil مُقاوِل , pl. ‑ūn 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√QWL 
n. 
contractor, (specif.) building contractor – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ Morphologically a PA, from qāwala, vb. III, in the meaning [v4] ‘to make a contract’, L-stem of ↗qāla ‘to say’ or denom. from ↗qawl ‘word, saying, utterance’, associative (*‘to exchange words, converse’). 
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↗qāla. 
↗qāla. 
▪ Tu mukavele ‘mutually conversing and coming to an agreement; agreement; contract’: 1680 Meninski, Thesaurus : muḳāvelet = ‘condictio, compactum’ – Nişanyan04Nov2014. 
Cf. also corresponding vb. and vn.:

► qāwala, vb. III, 1 to confer, parley, treat, negotiate (DO with s.o.); 2 to dispute, wrangle, argue; 3 to haggle, bargain (DO with s.o., about the price); 4 to make a contract; 5 to conclude a bargain, make a deal (DO with s.o.): L-stem, associative.
► muqāwalaẗ, n.f., 1 talk, conversation, parley, conference; 2 dispute; – (pl. -āt) 3 contractual agreement, mutual agreement (ʕalà on a job to be done); 4 agreement; 5 closing of a business deal: vn. III | bi’l-~, adv., by the job, by the contract, by piece (work).
 
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