# رمل
## Arabic
### Etymology

First attested as Old South Arabian 𐩧𐩣𐩡 (rml). An extension of the root ر م م (r m m).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /raml/

### Noun

رَمْل • (raml) m (plural رِمَال (rimāl))
* (uncountable) sand
* ellipsis of عِلْم الرَمْل (ʕilm ar-raml, “geomancy”).
* (obsolete) verbal noun of رَمَلَ (ramala) (form I)

#### Derived terms

* رَمْلَة (ramla, “a grain of sand”)
* رَمَّال (rammāl, “geomancer”)

#### Descendants

* Hijazi Arabic: رمل (ramil)
* Maltese: ramel, ramal, remel
* → Azerbaijani: rəml
* → Georgian: რამლი (ramli), მერამლე (meramle)
* → Malay: ramal
** Indonesian: ramal
* → Middle Armenian: ռամ (ṙam), ըռամ (əṙam)
** Armenian: ռամ (ṙam)
* → Ottoman Turkish: رمل (reml)
** Turkish: remil, rem (dialectal)
* → Persian: رمل (raml)
* → Swahili: ramli

### Noun

رَمَل • (ramal) m (plural أَرْمَال (ʔarmāl)) (obsolete)
* weak rain
* a certain mode of music
* verbal noun of رَمَلَ (ramala) (form I)

#### Declension
### Adjective

رَمِل • (ramil)
* sandy

#### Declension
### Verb

رَمَلَ • (ramala) I (non-past يَرْمُلُ (yarmulu), verbal noun رَمْل (raml)) (obsolete)
* to mix sand into
* to plait together, to braid, or to cover with plaited ornaments

#### Conjugation
### Verb

رَمَلَ • (ramala) I (non-past يَرْمُلُ (yarmulu), verbal noun رَمَل (ramal) or رَمَلَان (ramalān) or مَرْمَل (marmal)) (obsolete)
* to go forward in a kind of trotting pace

#### Conjugation
### Verb

رَمَّلَ • (rammala) II (non-past يُرَمِّلُ (yurammilu), verbal noun تَرْمِيل (tarmīl))
* to pour sand into
* to defile, to smear, to adulterate etc.

#### Conjugation
### References

* Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 559
* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “رمل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 558
* Freytag, Georg (1833) “رمل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 195–196
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “رمل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, pages 928–929
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “رمل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1159–1161
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “رمل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 418
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “رمل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 500

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic رَمْل (raml).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ramil/

### Noun

رمل • (ramil) m (construct state رَمْل (raml), plural رِمَال (rimāl))
* sand

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic رَمْل (raml).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /raml/, [ˈra.m(ɪ)l]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

### Noun

رمل • (raml) m
* sand