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√FYL
▪ FYL_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ FYL_2 ‘…’ ↗… ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘weakness of the body, lack of wisdom; to rebuke; to give bad counsel’. – Philologists derive the word fīl, elephant, from this root, although it has been suggested that it is a borrowing from either Pers or Aram that came into Arabic in pre-Islamic times.
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