استحال

• IPA^(key): /is.ta.ħaː.la/

اِسْتَحَالَ • (istaḥāla) X (non-past يَسْتَحِيلُ (yastaḥīlu), verbal noun اِسْتِحَالَة (istiḥāla))

1. to be impossible [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘for someone’]
2. to be absurd, to be inconceivable [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘for someone’]
3. (copulative) to become [with copulative accusative]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:صار

   اِسْتَحَالَ الْمَاءُ جَلِيدًا ― istaḥāla l-māʔu jalīdan ― The water turned into ice.

   • 1945, Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     لُغْزُ الْحَيَاةِ وَحَيْرَةُ الْأَلْبَابِ / أَنْ يَسْتَحِيلَ الْفِكْرُ مَحْضَ تُرَابِ

     luḡzu l-ḥayāti waḥayratu l-ʔalbābi / ʔan yastaḥīla l-fikru maḥḍa turābi

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. to switch, to change, to transform, to be converted [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘into something else’]
5. (Christianity) to be transubstantiated [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘into the blood and body of Christ’] (of the Eucharist)