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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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WLY ولي 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WLY 
“root” 
▪ WLY_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ WLY_2 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘adjacency; to follow; to turn to/from; to befriend, to back up; to take control; helper, backer, guardian, benefactor; next of kin: patron, servant/master: companion, partner. As adjacency is the central meaning of this root some derivatives denote opposite meanings, e.g. master/servant’ 
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▪ Engl maulana, mullah ↗mawlàⁿ; vilayet ↗wilāyaẗ. 
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waliyy وَلِيّ 
ID 941 • Sw – • BP 1394 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WLY 
n. 
1a near, nearby; b neighboring, adjacent; c close; — II n., pl. ʔawliyāʔᵘ, 2a helper, supporter, benefactor, sponsor; b friend, close associate; c relative; d patron, protector; e legal guardian, curator, tutor; 3a a man close to God, holy man, saint (in the popular religion of Islam); b master; c proprietor, possessor, owner – WehrCowan1979. 
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► waliyy allāh, n., the friend of God
► waliyy al-ʔamr, n., 1 the responsible manager, the man in charge; 2 ruler; 3 tutor, legal guardian
► waliyy al-dam, n., avenger of blood, executor of a blood feud
► waliyy al-saǧǧādaẗ, n., title of the leader of a Sufi order in his capacity of inheritor of the founder’s prayer rug
► waliyy al-ʕahd, n., successor to the throne, heir apparent, crown prince
► waliyy al-niʕmaẗ, n., benefactor

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wilāyaẗ وِلايَة 
ID 940 • Sw – • BP 276 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WLY 
n.f. 
1a sovereign power, sovereignty; b rule, government; — (pl. ‑āt) 2 administrative district headed by a vali, vilayet (formerly, under the Ottoman Empire), province; 3 state – WehrCowan1979. 
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl vilayet, from Ar wilāyaẗ ‘province’, from ↗waliya ‘to be(come) near, adjacent, be in charge, manage, govern’.↗ 
► al-wilāyāt al-muttaḥidaẗ, n. pl., the United States
► wilāyaẗ al-ʕahd, n.f., succession to the throne

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mawlàⁿ مَوْلىً , det. mawlà 
ID 939 • Sw – • BP 2225 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WLY 
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n., 1 master, lord; 2 protector, patron; 3 client; 4 charge; 5 friend, companion, associate; 6 al-~, the Lord, God; 7 mawlāya and mawlānā, form of address to a sovereign – WehrCowan1979. 
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl maulana, mullah, from Ar mawlā ‘master, patron, friend’, from ↗waliya ‘to be(come) near, adjacent, be in charge, manage, govern’. 
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