עלי

Arabic

Preposition

עלי • (ʕalā)

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of عَلَى (ʕalā, “on, upon, over”)‎‎
   • c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir‎^[1], Exodus 1:8:

     וקאם מלך גׄדיד עלי מצר מן לם ישאהד יוסף׃

     waqāma malikun jadīdun ʕalā miṣra man lam yušāhid yūsufa.

     And a new king arose over Egypt who had not witnessed Joseph.

Hebrew

Etymology 1

Root
ע־ל־ה (ʿ-l-h)

From Proto-Semitic *ʿall-, *ʿaly- (“high; height, elevation”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʿal-, *ʿVl(ay)- (“to be high, tall; to rise; mountain”).

Related to Arabic عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy, “to be high, exalted; Ali (exalted one)”), Maltese għoli.

Proper noun

עֵלִי • ('eli) m

1. Eli, an Israelite high priest.
2. a male given name, Eli

Etymology 2

Root
ע־ל־ה (ʿ-l-h)

Cognate to Arabic عَلَى (ʕalā), Maltese għal.

Preposition

עֲלֵי • ('aléi)

1. (biblical, poetic) Alternative form of עַל ('al)

Preposition

עָלַי • (aláy)

1. Form of עַל including first-person singular personal pronoun as object, defective spelling.

Etymology 3

Adjective

עִלִּי • (ilí) (feminine עִלִּית, masculine plural עִלִּים or עִלִּיִּים, feminine plural עִלִּיּוֹת)

1. upper

References

• H5941 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Anagrams

• יעל