مقالة

• IPA^(key): /ma.qaː.la/

مَقَالَة • (maqāla) f (plural مَقَالَات (maqālāt))

1. verbal noun of قَالَ (qāla) (form I)
2. article, essay

   كَتَبَ مَقَالَةً عَنِ ٱلْأَوْضَاعِ بِسُورْيَةَ.

   kataba maqālatan ʕani l-ʔawḍāʕi bisūryata.

   He wrote an essay about the situation in Syria.

3. (dated) something that has been said

   Synonyms: قَوْل (qawl), مَقَال (maqāl)

   • a. 756, عبد اللّٰه بن المقفّع [ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muqaffaʿ], edited by Michael Fishbein, كتاب كليلة ودمنة [Kalīlah and Dimnah] (Library of Arabic Literature; 76)‎, New York: NYU Press, published 2022, →ISBN, section 9.3, page 276:

     إِنَّهُ مَنْ قَالَ فِيمَا لَا يَدْرِي هَلْ يَكُونُ أَمْ لَا مِثْلَ مَقَالَتِكَ كَانَ خَلِيقًا أَنْ يَصِيرَ أَمْرُهُ إِلَى مَا صَارَ إِلَيْهِ أَمْرُ ٱلْنَّاسِكِ ٱلَّذِي ٱنْصَبَّ سَمْنُهُ وَعَسَلُهُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ.

     ʔinnahu man qāla fīmā lā yadrī hal yakūnu ʔam lā miṯla maqālatika kāna ḵalīqan ʔan yaṣīra ʔamruhu ʔilā mā ṣāra ʔilayhi ʔamru l-nnāsiki llaḏī nṣabba samnuhu waʕasaluhu ʕalā raʔsihi.

     He who commit himself where he knows not whether it is or is not – you are aptly likened in your talk’s effect to the ascetic whose cause came out in such a fashion that his butter and honey spilled on his head.

   • a. 1328, Ibn Taymiyyah, مجموع فتاوى ابن تيمية:

     سُئِلَ عَنْ رَجُلَيْنِ تَنَازَعَا فِي كَيْفِيَّةِ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ هَلْ هُمَا جِسْمَانِ كُرِيَّانِ؟ فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا: «كُرِيَّانِ» وَأَنْكَرَ الْآخَرُ هَذِهِ الْمَقَالَةَ وَقَالَ: «لَيْسَ لَهَا أَصْلٌ» وَرَدَّهَا، فَمَا الصَّوَابُ؟

     suʔila ʕan rajulayni tanāzaʕā fī kayfiyyati s-samāʔi wa-l-ʔarḍi hal humā jismāni kuriyyāni? faqāla ʔaḥaduhumā: “kuriyyāni” wa-ʔankara l-ʔāḵaru haḏihi al-maqālata wa-qāla: “laysa lahā ʔaṣlun” wa-raddahā, fa-mā ṣ-ṣawābu?

     Two men in a dispute were asked about the quality of heaven and earth, whether they are ball-shaped, and one said, “ball-shaped”, and the other denied this statement and said “they have no ground”, and answered it thus, however which is right?

• Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “مقالة”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2^nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN