هائل
Arabic
Etymology
Derived from the active participle of هَالَ (hāla, “to scare away, to frighten”), from the root ه و ل (h-w-l).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haː.ʔil/
Adjective
هَائِل • (hāʾil)
- active participle of هَالَ (hāla).
- tremendous
- (dated) awe-inspiring, terrifying
- enormous, gigantic
- قدر هائل للضغط تصهر الهيدروجين إلى الهيليوم في النواة النجم من خللا الجاذبية
- an enormous amount of pressure fuses hydrogen into helium in the star's nucleus thanks to a lack of gravity
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- لا يسعني إلا أن أفصح عن حدوث تقدّم هائل في التجارب الطبية، كان يبدو مستحيلا حتى أخيراً منذ بضعة أشهر. ومن المؤكد أن المعالم التي تم التوصل إليها ستُحدث ثورة في الطب.
- I can only express that there has come forth a tremendous progress in the medical trials which used to seem untransactable until lately some months ago. And it is certain that the reached milestones will spawn a revolution in medicine.
- tremendous
References
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “هول”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “هائل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
- Mu`jam al-Sawaab al-Lughawi by Ahmad Mukhtar Umar (d. 2003 CE) معجم الصواب اللغوي لأحمد مختار عمر
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