علت

See also: غلب, غلت, علب, and علة

Arabic

Verb

عَلَتْ • (ʕalat) (form I) /ʕa.lat/

third-person feminine singular past active of عَلَا (ʕalā) and عَلَى (ʕalā, “to climb”)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عِلَّة (ʕilla).

Noun

علت • (illet)

Descendants

Turkish: illet

Further reading

Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “illet”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِلَّة (ʕilla).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔil.ˈlat/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪl.lät̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪl.lät̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔil.lät̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔel.læt̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔil.lät̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	illat
Dari reading^?	illat
Iranian reading^?	ellat
Tajik reading^?	illat

Noun

عِلَّت • ('ellat) (plural عِلَل ('elal), or عِلَّت‌ها ('ellat-hâ))

cause, reason
(archaic) disease
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume V, verse 3629:
  که طمع لاغر کند زرد و ذلیل
  نیست او از علت ابدان علیل
  ke tama' lâġar konad zard o zalil
  nist u az 'ellat-e abdân 'alil
  For [mere] hope makes him lean, pale, and wretched: he is not ill with bodily ailment.