ʔahl أَهْل , pl. ʔahlūn , ʔahāliⁿ (def. al-ʔahālī)
ID 047 • Sw – • BP 128 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ʔHL
relatives, folks, family; kin, kinfolk; wife; (with foll. genit.) people, members, followers, adherents, possessors, etc.; inhabitants; deserving, worthy; fit, suited, qualified; eligible, competent; – pl. ʔahlūn members of the family, relatives; (with foll. genit.) adherents, followers, members (of a movement, religion, etc.); – pl. ʔahālin (def. al-ʔahālī) population, inhabitants (of a city, a country); the natives, the native population – WehrCowan1979… – WehrCowan1979.
“[O]riginally meaning ‘those who occupy with one the same tent (Hebrew ōhel)’, thus ‘family, inmates’. Therefore ahl al-Bayt means literally ‘the household of the Prophet’. When the ahl (pl. ahālī) of a town or a country is spoken of it denotes its inhabitants […]. But this word is often connected with other concepts, and is in these combinations more loosely used, so that it may come to mean ‘sharing in a thing, belonging to it’, or ‘owner of the same’, etc.”.1
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