ذُلٌّ humiliation in Arabic
ذُلٌّ is how you say “humiliation” in Arabic.
Root ذ ل ل dh-l-l. noun (verbal noun / maṣdar). dhull.
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Meaning of humiliation in Arabic
- lowness, baseness, abasement, humiliation, disgrace given by Lane as the direct contrary of ʿizz (might, glory, power)
- weakness, contemptibleness closely related nuance listed alongside humiliation as part of the same core sense
Example sentence
ولباس الذل وإهانة الْعَدو وضيق الصَّدْر
And the clothing of humiliation, the enemy's scorn, and tightness of the chest.
الذُّلِّ of humiliation
al- = 'the'; the 'of…' word: 'of humiliation, lowliness'.
The English is machine-translated.
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How it is used
ذُلٌّ is the verbal noun of ذَلَّ and is defined by Lane explicitly as the opposite of عِزّ (might, glory, strength) — a state of lowness, baseness, or humiliation rather than an action. It appears in the Qurʾān (17:111) describing God as having no ally out of any "dhull" (lowliness) in Him. Note the distinction from the related form ذِلٌّ (with kasra), which instead denotes tractability or submissiveness, as of a trained animal — a different nuance built on the same root.
Words from the same root
- ذَلَّ verb (form I): to be/become low, base, abased, humbled; also, of a person or animal, to become easy, tractable, submissive
- ذلّل verb (form II): to make tractable or submissive; to subdue or tame; also to make grape-vine bunches hang low for easy picking (as in Qurʾān 76:14)
- اذلّهُ verb (form IV): to abase, lower, or humble someone
- تَذَلَّلَ verb (form V): to humble or lower oneself; to submit to someone
- استذلّهُ verb (form X): to regard or find someone as low/abject
- ذَلِيلٌ adjective: low, base, abject, despicable, humbled
- ذَلُولٌ adjective: tractable, submissive, manageable, especially of a trained animal
- ذِلَّةٌ noun: lowness, baseness, abasement, humiliation (near-synonym of dhull)
- مَذَلَّةٌ noun: a state or condition of abasement, humiliation
More example sentences
يُقَالُ دَنَّتْهُ فَدَانَ أَيْ أَذَلَّلْتُهُ فَذُلٌّ
It is said: it humbled him and he submitted; that is, I humbled him and then humiliation.
فَذُلٌّ then humiliation
A 'so/then' opener fused to an indefinite noun 'humiliation', showing the outcome. The 'so' marks the result of the humbling, and the noun names the state that follows, the consequence of the act.
وَالْعِبَادَةُ أَصْلٌ مَعْنَاهَا الذُلُّ أَيْضًا
And worship, in its original sense, also means humility.
الذُلُّ humility
A definite noun 'humility/lowliness' serving as the predicate of the little clause, in the subject (nominative) form. It states what the original meaning of worship is, equated with no verb 'is'.
فتختبر ذلك اليوم حتى يظهر خيرها من شرها ومؤديها من مضيعها وما كان لله مما لم يكن له
Then that humiliation will be tested that day until its good is revealed from its evil, its deliverer from its destroyer, and what was for God from what was not for Him.
ذُلُّكَ that humiliation
This noun carries an attached '-your' on its end, binding the humiliation to a second person being addressed. Arabic hooks the possessor directly onto the noun as a suffix, so the single word states both the thing and whose it is, where English needs the separate word 'your'.
Common questions
- How do you say "humiliation" in Arabic?
- ذُلٌّ (dhull).
- What is the root of ذُلٌّ and what does it mean?
- The root is ذ ل ل (dh-l-l), centered on the idea of being low, base, or humbled — explicitly given as the opposite of ʿizz (might, glory).
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).