ل

Etymology 1
From the letter, derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph. See also, , ,.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by  and followed by.

Symbol

 * 1) The twelfth letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by  and followed by.

Etymology 2
From.

Preposition

 * 1) to, for, belonging to.

Usage notes
When is followed by the definite article, the alif of the article is dropped from the spelling, resulting in the spelling لِلْ. However, if this would result in three lams in a row, because the first letter following the definite article is also lam, then the lam with sukun is also dropped, resulting in a spelling starting with لِلّـ, with only two lams; for example,,. The pronunciation is entirely regular in all of these cases.

Usage notes
It is often used in the form يَا لَهُ [مِنْ] ..., that is, يَا لَـ followed by an enclitic pronoun that does not refer to any previous noun. Rather the pronoun refers to what follows it, with an optional مِنْ in the middle.

Conjunction

 * 1)  to, in order to:
 * 2) only to
 * 1) only to
 * 1) only to
 * 1) only to

Particle

 * 1) ; let

Particle

 * 1)  truly, verily, certainly, surely

Usage notes
Frequently used after.

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-seventh letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-eighth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-sixth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

Letter

 * 1) The nineteenth letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Л.

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-ninth and first lam letter of the Khowar abjad.

Etymology 1
From. The initial syllable in suffixed forms is likely a contemporary development rather than influence from, whose initial glottal stop would have naturally been lost as seen below; instead, compare the development of the initial syllable in.

Preposition

 * 1) to, towards
 * 2) for
 * 3) by; made by; pertaining to

Usage notes

 * Personal suffixes are attached to the stem ʾil-:, , etc. Often, however, reduplicated forms from the stem laʾil- are used, thus ,.

Synonyms

 * and synonyms there.
 * and synonyms there.

Conjunction

 * 1) in order that

Usage notes

 * Also equivalent to the often-invisible English as in.

Synonyms

 * and synonyms there.

Suffix

 * 1) to, for;

Usage notes

 * Immediately followed by a personal suffix. almost-always avoids creating superheavy syllables before itself.
 * Superheavy syllables CVVC are avoided by contracting the long vowel, such as when attaching to a hollow verb. In particular, long ā, even when raised to ē as in Lebanon and urban Syria, always contracts to a rather than to i — and North Levantine varieties have overwhelmingly merged short u and short i into i, meaning that ū and ī also both contract into i.
 * ⇒, not.
 * Some speakers extend this to the plural ending -īn of active participles.
 * ⇒ or.
 * The suffix avoids all other kinds of heavy syllables by attaching to the base as either -ill- or -all-. The -all- ending is used on third-person masculine singular Form I biliteral verbs in the past tense, and the -ill- ending everywhere else.
 * In other cases, i.e. in environments where sticking -l- directly onto the end of the base would not create a final heavy syllable, it attaches as is.
 * Unlike in Egyptian Arabic, the Levantine form of this suffix can only attach to the base word, not to any preceding suffixes. This means it bumps any object suffixes off into their own words.
 * This suffix isn't limited to appearing on verbs and their active participles. It can also attach to, passive participles of verbs, and even other parts of speech.
 * It only rarely appears on other parts of speech, and when it does, it's the result of an originally-unbound merging into a word it commonly appears with. That's the case with, from  +.
 * It's also uncommon for this suffix to attach to passive participles, which means that passive participles that end in ū will generally contract it into a short u instead of a short i if it's attached to them. Two somewhat-common examples are and.
 * It can only attach to elatives to refer to the better or best of a set of choices, like and . It's generally invalid to use it on an elative that describes a negative trait, like  or, because it imparts a positive slant on the trait the elative describes. In contrast,  can construe elatives no matter what they mean:  is synonymous with , but the only valid antonym is  instead of.
 * Unlike in Egyptian Arabic, the Levantine form of this suffix can only attach to the base word, not to any preceding suffixes. This means it bumps any object suffixes off into their own words.
 * This suffix isn't limited to appearing on verbs and their active participles. It can also attach to, passive participles of verbs, and even other parts of speech.
 * It only rarely appears on other parts of speech, and when it does, it's the result of an originally-unbound merging into a word it commonly appears with. That's the case with, from  +.
 * It's also uncommon for this suffix to attach to passive participles, which means that passive participles that end in ū will generally contract it into a short u instead of a short i if it's attached to them. Two somewhat-common examples are and.
 * It can only attach to elatives to refer to the better or best of a set of choices, like and . It's generally invalid to use it on an elative that describes a negative trait, like  or, because it imparts a positive slant on the trait the elative describes. In contrast,  can construe elatives no matter what they mean:  is synonymous with , but the only valid antonym is  instead of.
 * It can only attach to elatives to refer to the better or best of a set of choices, like and . It's generally invalid to use it on an elative that describes a negative trait, like  or, because it imparts a positive slant on the trait the elative describes. In contrast,  can construe elatives no matter what they mean:  is synonymous with , but the only valid antonym is  instead of.

Etymology 2
From.

Preposition

 * 1) to, toward

Usage notes

 * Its suffix-base form is lay-, similarly to . This distinguishes it from the preposition above when constructed with a personal suffix.
 * For the most part, only used in the phrases, , , and . However, it is also uncommonly used to construe other verbs of motion as a generalized sense of the last phrase, where it retains the sense of intending “to apprehend or cause harm” suggested by :

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-fourth letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-seventh letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by گ and followed by م. Its name is.

Letter

 * 1) The forty-sixth letter of the Sindhi abjad.

Etymology
From.

Preposition

 * 1) to ; belonging to; for
 * 2) to
 * 3) until, up to
 * 1) until, up to

Conjunction

 * 1) so that

Suffix

 * 1) to; for

Usage notes

 * This suffix is attached to a verb expressing the indirect object.
 * If the verb ends in a consonant cluster, the "-l-" is geminated and the stress shifts before an enclitic pronoun starting with a vowel.

Letter

 * 1) The thirtieth letter of the Urdu abjad.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-first letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Letter

 * 1) The thirteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet in the ajami script, equivalent to Latin script .