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1 word, speech, saying, utterance, remark; 2 statement, declaration; 3 report, account; 4 doctrine, teaching; 5 pl. ʔaqwāl also: testimony (in court); ʔaqāwīlᵘ : 6 sayings, locutions; 7 proverbs – WehrCowan1979.

conc

▪ vn. I, lexicalized in resultative, quasi-PP meaning (*‘what is said, uttered, stated’), from ↗qāla ‘to say’, from Sem *ḳawl- /*ḳāl- ‘voice’ (Kogan2015), perh. from AfrAs *ḳa(wa)l- ‘to speak’ (Militarev2006).

hist

▪ eC7 qawl 1 (s.th. said, what is said, statement) Q 24:51 ʔinna-mā kāna qawla ’l-muʔminīna ʔiḏā duʕū ʔilà ’llāhi wa-rasūli-hī li-yaḥkuma bayta-hum ʔan yaqūlū samiʕnā ‘the saying of the believers, when they are summoned to God and His messenger so that He may judge between them, is only, “We hear and we obey”’, Q 11:53 wa-mā naḥnu bi-tārikī ʔālihati-nā ʕan qawli-ka ‘and we will not forsake our gods [merely] on the strength of your word’; 2 (message, teachings) Q 73:5 ʔinnā sa-nulqī ʕalay-ka qawlan ṯaqīlan ‘We shall cast upon you a weighty message’; 3 (sentence, verdict) Q 11:40 qulnā ’ḥmil fī-hā min kulli zawǧayni ’ṯnayni wa-ʔahla-ka ʔillā man sabaqa ʕalay-hi ’l-qawlu ‘We said, “Carry on it a pair of each [species], and your own family—except those against whom the sentence has already been passed”’; 4 (punishment) Q 27:85 wa-waqaʕa ’l-qawlu ʕalay-him bi-mā ẓalamū fa-hum lā yanṭiqūna ‘indeed, the punishment will befall them because of their wrongdoing: so they will not speak’; 5 (opinion) Q 51:8 ʔinna-kum la-fī qawlin muḫtalifin ‘indeed, you are of opposing opinions’; 6 (pl. ʔaqāwīl : falsely fabricated statements) Q 69:44 wa-law taqawwala ʕalay-nā baʕḍa ’l-ʔaqāwīli ‘if he [the Prophet] had attributed some fabrications to Us’.

cogn

↗qāla.

disc

↗qāla.

west

▪ Tu kavil ‘agreement, accord; word, assertion’: 1069 Kutadgu Bilig : sözi çın kerek bolsa ḳavlı bütün ‘his word shall be right and what he says shall be comprehensive’ – Nişanyan02Apr2015.

deriv

qawlan wa-ʕamalan or bi’l-qawl wa’l-fiʕl, expr., by word and deed
ʔaqwāl al-šuhūd, n.pl., testimonies, depositions, evidence
ʔaʕṭà qawla-hū, vb. I, to make one’s bid (at an auction)
qawl maʔṯūr, n., proverb
al-qawl bi’l-ʔiʕǧāz, n., doctrine of the inimitability of the Koran.

For other items, see ↗qāla.

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