اقلا

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic قَلِيل (qalīl)der.

Arabic أَقَلّ (ʔaqall)bor.

Persian (aqall / aġall)

Arabic ـًا (-an)bor.

Persian (-an)

Persian

Pseudo-Arabism, from (aqall) +‎ (-an). The use of the adverbial tanwin would be ungrammatical in Arabic itself because the word is diptote and hence cannot take a tanwin.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔa.qal.ˈlan/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.qäl.lán]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.qäl.lán]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.qäl.lán]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæ.ʁæl.lǽn], [ʔæ.ʁæ.lǽn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.qäl.lán]

Readings
Classical reading^?	aqallan
Dari reading^?	aqallan
Iranian reading^?	aġallan, aġalan
Tajik reading^?	aqallan

Adverb

اقلا • (aqallan / aġallan) (Tajik spelling ақаллан)

at least
Synonyms: حداقل (hadd-i-aqall / hadd-e-aġall), دست‌کم (dast-i-kam / dast-e-kam)