עלי

עלי • (transliteration needed)

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of عَلَى (ʕalā, “on, upon, over”)‎‎
   • c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir‎^[1], Exodus 1:8:

     וקאם מלך גׄדיד עלי מצר מן לם ישאהד יוסף׃

     waqāma malikun jadīdun ʕalā miṣra man lam yušāhid yūsufa.

     And a new king arose over Egypt who had not witnessed Joseph.

From Proto-Semitic *ʕall-, *ʕaly- (“high; height, elevation”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʕal-, *ʕVl(ay)- (“to be high, tall; to rise; mountain”).

Related to Arabic عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy, “to be high, exalted; Ali (exalted one)”), Maltese għoli.

עֵלִי • (eli) m

1. (biblical) Eli (the priest who brought up Samuel)
2. a male given name, Eli

Cognate to Arabic عَلَى (ʕalā), Maltese għal.

עֲלֵי • (alé)

1. (biblical, poetic) alternative form of עַל (al)

עָלַי • (aláy)

1. Form of עַל including first-person singular personal pronoun as object, defective spelling.

עִלִּי • (ilí) (feminine עִלִּית, masculine plural עִלִּים or עִלִּיִּים, feminine plural עִלִּיּוֹת)

1. upper

• H5941 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• יעל