ID … • Sw – • BP 4733 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√MLʔ
1 crowd, gathering, assembly, congregation; 2a audience; 2b (general) public; 3 council of elders, notables, grandees – WehrCowan1976.
▪ Akin to ↗malaʔa ‘to fill’, the basic idea prob. being that a place of gathering is “filled” completely by those attending.
►ʕalà ’l‑ malaʔ, adv., publicly, in public
►ʕalà malaʔ al‑ʕālam, adv., for everyone to see, before all the world
►al‑malaʔ al‑ ʔaʕlà, n., the heavenly host, the angels. For other items of the root, cf. ↗malaʔa / maliʔa, ↗mālaʔa, and ↗mulāʔaẗ ~ milāyaẗ, as well as, for the general picture, ↗√MLʔ.
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