maqālaẗ مَقالة , pl. ‑āt
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√QWL
1 article; 2 essay; 3 treatise; 4 piece of writing – WehrCowan1979.
▪ quasi-n.un. of maqāl, quasi-n.loc. of ↗qāla ‘to say’.
▪ Tu makale 1 ‘speech, word’ 1432 Mercimek ʔAḥmed, Kābūsnāme terc.; 2 ‘article (in a newspaper, etc.) 1900 Şemseddīn Sāmī, Ḳāmūs-ı Türkī : maḳāle = ‘bir madde hakkında söylenilen veya yazılan şey – hıfzısıhha hakkında uzun bir maḳāle yazdı’. The latter (current) meaning seems to have emerged from usage in newspapers towards the end of the 19th c. – Nişanyan02Sept2014.
► maqālaẗ ĭftitāḥiyyaẗ, n.f., editorial, leading article.
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