عقل

• IPA^(key): /ʕaql/

عَقْل • (ʕaql) m (plural عُقُول (ʕuqūl))

1. verbal noun of عَقَلَ (ʕaqala, “to be reasonable”) (form I)
2. understanding, reason, wisdom, sound judgment, sense

   حَدِّثِ الْعَاقِلَ بِمَا لَا يَلِيقُ، فَإِنْ صَدَّقَ فَلَا عَقْلَ لَهُ.

   ḥaddiṯi l-ʕāqila bimā lā yalīqu, faʔin ṣaddaqa falā ʕaqla lahu.

   Tell the intelligent man what does not befit him and if he deems it credible he has no sense.

3. mind, intellect
4. (Christianity) Holy Ghost

• Gulf Arabic: عقل (ʕagiḷ)
• Maltese: għaqal
• → Adyghe: акъыл (aqəl)
• → Azerbaijani: ağıl
• → Bashkir: аҡыл (aqıl)
• → Crimean Tatar: aqıl
• → Gagauz: akıl
• → Kabardian: акъыл (aqəl)
• → Karakalpak: aqıl
• → Kazakh: ақыл (aqyl)
• → Khakas: ағыл (ağıl)
• → Khalaj: aqıl
• → Northern Kurdish: aqil

  → Lishana Deni: עאקל (‘āqəl, “mind, intelligence, wisdom”)

• → Kyrgyz: акыл (akıl)
• → Malay: akal
  • > Indonesian: akal (inherited)
  • → Javanese: ꦲꦏꦭ꧀ (akal)
  • → Ternate: akal
• → Nogai: акъыл (ak”ıl)
• → Ottoman Turkish: عقل (ʼakl, ʼakıl)
  • Turkish: akıl
  • → Bulgarian: акъ́л (akǎ́l)
  • → Macedonian: акал (akal)
  • → Ubykh: аӄыл (aqəl)
• → Classical Persian: عقل ('aql) (see there for further descendants)
• → Shor: ағыл
• → Swahili: akili
• → Sylheti: ꠀꠇꠟ (axol)
• → Tatar: акыл (aqıl)
• → Turkmen: akyl
• → Talysh: ağl
• → Uzbek: aql
• → Zazaki: aqil

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.qa.la/

عَقَلَ • (ʕaqala) I (non-past يَعْقِلُ (yaʕqilu), verbal noun عَقْل (ʕaql))

1. to be reasonable, to make sense

• IPA^(key): /ʕaq.qa.la/

عَقَّلَ • (ʕaqqala) II (non-past يُعَقِّلُ (yuʕaqqilu), verbal noun تَعْقِيل (taʕqīl))

1. to make reasonable

• IPA^(key): /ʕaql/

عَقْل • (ʕaql) m (plural عُقُول (ʕuqūl))

1. asylum
2. fortress

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.qa.la/

عَقَلَ • (ʕaqala) I (non-past يَعْقِلُ (yaʕqilu), verbal noun عَقَل (ʕaqal) or عُقُول (ʕuqūl))

1. to make oneself inaccessible in a high mountain, to betake oneself for refuge

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.qal/

عَقَل • (ʕaqal) m

1. verbal noun of عَقَلَ (ʕaqala, “to find refuge in a high mountain”) (form I)

• IPA^(key): /ʕaql/

عَقْل • (ʕaql) m (plural عُقُول (ʕuqūl))

1. verbal noun of عَقَلَ (ʕaqala, “to renounce revenge for wergild”) (form I)
2. bloodwite, wergild, blood money

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.qa.la/

عَقَلَ • (ʕaqala) I (non-past يَعْقِلُ (yaʕqilu), verbal noun عَقْل (ʕaql))

1. to renounce revenge for wergild, to relinquish retaliation of blood

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.qa.la/

عَقَلَ • (ʕaqala) I (non-past يَعْقِلُ (yaʕqilu), verbal noun عَقْل (ʕaql))

1. to hobble, to tie with the rope عِقَال (ʕiqāl)

• IPA^(key): /ʕaql/

عَقْل • (ʕaql) m (plural عُقُول (ʕuqūl))

1. verbal noun of عَقَلَ (ʕaqala, “to hobble”) (form I)

عَقِلَ • (ʕaqila) I (non-past يَعْقَلُ (yaʕqalu), verbal noun عَقَل (ʕaqal))

1. to have a twisting in the hind leg

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.qal/

عَقَل • (ʕaqal) m

1. verbal noun of عَقِلَ (ʕaqila, “to have a twisting in the hind leg”) (form I)

عَقَلَ • (ʕaqala) I (non-past يَعْقِلُ (yaʕqilu), verbal noun عَقْل (ʕaql))

1. to pasture upon camelthorn (عَاقُول (ʕāqūl))

• IPA^(key): /ʕaql/

عَقْل • (ʕaql) m (plural عُقُول (ʕuqūl))

1. verbal noun of عَقَلَ (ʕaqala, “to pasture upon camelthorn”) (form I)

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَقْل (aql), from Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql).

عَقَل ('aqal) f

1. intelligence, wisdom, sense

• Dr Rafique Anjum (2018) Concise Gojri-Kashmiri-English Dictionary, New Delhi: Adam Publishers & Distributors, →ISBN, page 310.
• Javaid Rahi (2015) “عَقلْ”, in گوجری ڈکشنری [Gojri Dictionary] (in Gojri), page 663, column 2.

Inherited from Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql)

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.ɡɪɫ/

عَقِل • (ʕagiḷ) m (before il- عَقْل (ʕagḷ), plural عقول (ʕgūḷ))

1. mind, brain
2. (figuratively) logic, reason

   الله بالعقل عرفناه

   We know God (exists) by logic and reason ((used to state that something is obvious)

   (literally, “God with the mind we knew him”)

• IPA^(key): /ʕɪ.ɡəɫ/

عِقَل • (ʕigaḷ) (non-past يعقل (yaʕgiḷ, yʕagiḷ))

1. to become reasonable, to mature mentally

   يكبر ويعقل ― yikbar u-yaʕgiḷ ― He'll become wise as/when he grows up (common saying)

From Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.ɡil/, [ʕa.ɡɪl]

عقل • (ʕagil) m (construct state عَقْل (ʕagl), plural عُقُول (ʕugūl))

1. understanding, reason, wisdom, sound judgment
2. mind

   Synonym: مُخّ (muḵḵ)

From Arabic عَقَلَ (ʕaqala).

• IPA^(key): /ʕi.ɡil/, [ʕɪ.ɡɪl]

عِقِل • (ʕigil) I (non-past يِعْقَل (yiʕgal))

1. to mature
2. to be reasonable

From Arabic عَقَّلَ (ʕaqqala).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaɡ.ɡal/

عَقَّل • (ʕaggal) II (non-past يِعَقِّل (yiʕaggil))

1. to make reasonable

عَقِل (aqıl) (definite accusative عَقلؽ, plural عَقِللار)

1. Arabic spelling of aqıl (“intellect”)

From Arabic عَقَلَ (ʕaqala).

• IPA^(key): /ʕqal/

عقل • (ʕqal) I (non-past يعقل (yiʕqal))

1. to remember

1=ع
4=ʕ
5=q
3=ل
2=ق
6=l

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql, “understanding, reason, mind”).

عقل • (akl or akıl) (definite accusative عقلی (aklı), plural عقول (ukul))

1. reason, intelligence, intellect, the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding

   Synonym: ذهن (zihn, zihin)

2. wisdom, wiseness, sapience, the ability to contemplate and act productively using knowledge, experience and insight

   Synonym: حكمت (hikmet)

3. judgment, discernment, discretion, common sense, the power or faculty of making decisions in a right, just, or wisely way

   Synonyms: ادراك (idrak), اوص (us), هوش (huş)

4. mind, the non-material substance or set of processes in which perception, judgement, thinking, and will are based

   Synonyms: اوص (us), خاطر (hatır), ذهن (zihn, zihin)

• Turkish: akıl
• → Bulgarian: акъ́л (akǎ́l)
• → Macedonian: акал (akal)
• → Ubykh: аӄыл (aqəl)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “akıl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 168
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “akl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 29
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عقل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 854
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intelligentia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 839
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عقل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3298
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “akıl”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عقل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1311

Borrowed from Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql).

عَقل • ('aql)

1. mind, intellect, understanding, reason
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1181:

     شادی اندر گرده و غم در جگر / عقل چون شمعی درون مغز سر

     šâdi andar gorde va ġam dar jegar / aql čon šam'-i darun-e maġz-e sar

     Joy [has its seat] in the kidneys, grief in the liver; intellect, [bright] as a candle, inside the brain in the head.

2. good sense, sound judgment
   • 1976, خسرو شاهانی, “عینک طبی”, in کور لعنتی:

     تو هم اگر عقل درستی داشتی، روزگارت بهتر از این بود.

     to ham agar aql-e dorost-i dâšti, ruzegâr-et behtar az in bud.

     If you had good sense, your life would be better off than this.

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَقْل ('aql), from Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql). First attested as Old Hindi अकलि (akali).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)əql/
• Rhymes: -əql

عَقْل • (‘aql) f (formal plural عُقُول ('uqūl), Hindi spelling अक़्ल)

1. common sense
2. understanding, wisdom

   Synonym: سَمَجھ (samajh)

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “عقل”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 851
• “عقل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “280”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “عقل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 437
• “عقل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834) “عقل”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1224