رحل

Form I verb from the root ر ح ل (r ḥ l).

رَحَلَ • (raḥala) I (non-past يَرْحَلُ (yarḥalu), verbal noun رَحْل (raḥl) or رَحِيل (raḥīl))

1. to saddle, to mount

   Synonym: رَكَبَ (rakaba)

2. to set out
3. to leave, depart

   Synonym: غَادَرَ (ḡādara)

   • a. 1369, Ibn Battuta, “العراق وفارس”, in رحلة ابن بطوطة, volume 1, →ISBN, page 211:

     ثُمَّ رَحَلْنَا وَنَزَلْنَا قَرْيَةً تُعْرَفُ بِالْمُوَيْلِحَةِ. ثُمَّ رَحَلْنَا مِنْهَا وَنَزَلْنَا جَزِيرَةَ ٱبْنِ عُمَرَ، وَهِيَ مَدِينَةٌ كَبِيرَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ، مُحِيطٌ بِهَا الْوَادِي، وَلِذٰلِكَ سُمِّيَتْ جَزِيرَةً، وَأَكْثَرُهَا خَرَابٌ.

     ṯumma raḥalnā wanazalnā qaryatan tuʕrafu bi-l-muwayliḥati. ṯumma raḥalnā minhā wanazalnā jazīrata bni ʕumara, wahiya madīnatun kabīratun ḥasanatun, muḥīṭun bihā l-wādī, waliḏālika summiyat jazīratan, waʔakṯaruhā ḵarābun.

     Journeying on, we halted at a village called al-Muwailiha, and from there alighted at Jazirat Ibn ‘Omar, a large and beautiful city surrounded by the river [Tigris], which is the reason why it is called Jazira [‘island’]. The greater part of it is in ruins.

     Translated by H. A. R. Gibb

4. to emigrate

   Synonym: هَاجَرَ (hājara)

5. (euphemistic) to die

Form II verb from the root ر ح ل (r ḥ l).

رَحَّلَ • (raḥḥala) II (non-past يُرَحِّلُ (yuraḥḥilu), verbal noun تَرْحِيل (tarḥīl))

1. to make depart
   1. to send out, to dispatch, to urge
   2. to transport, to deport, to relocate, to carry over
   3. to carry over, to convey

رَحْل • (raḥl) m (plural رِحَال (riḥāl))

1. verbal noun of رَحَلَ (raḥala) (form I)
2. camel saddle
3. saddlebags
4. (metonymic) camel
5. baggage, luggage
6. (in the plural) stopping place

• Maltese: raħal
• → Ottoman Turkish: رحله (rahle)
  • Turkish: rahle

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “رحل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 516–517
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “رحل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 132
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “رحل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1053–1054.
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “رحل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 383

From Arabic رَحَلَ (raḥala).

• IPA^(key): /rħal/

رحل • (rḥal) I (non-past يرحل (yirḥal))

1. to move house
2. to set out

From Arabic رَحَّلَ (raḥḥala).

• IPA^(key): /raħ.ħal/

رحل • (raḥḥal) II (non-past يرحل (yraḥḥal))

1. to transport, to relocate

From Arabic رَحَلَ (raḥala).

• IPA^(key): /ra.ħal/, [ˈra.ħal]

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رحل • (raḥal) I (present برحل (birḥal))

1. to emigrate, to move away

   Synonym: نقل (naʔal)

2. to wander, to roam

   Synonyms: تجوّل (tjawwal), طشّ (ṭašš)