# لعل
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Univerbation of لَـ (la-, “truly, indeed, verily”) and عَلَّ (ʕalla).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la.ʕal.la/

#### Particle

لَعَلَّ • (laʕalla)
* hopefully
* in order, so that
** 7th century CE, The Quran‎:ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَاكُم مِن بَعْدِ مَوْتِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَṯumma baʕaṯnākum min baʕdi mawtikum laʕallakum taškurūnaBut We raised you again after you had been as dead, so that you might have cause to be grateful.
* perhaps, maybe

##### Usage notes

* لَعَلَّ (laʕalla) functions like إِنَّ (ʔinna) and أَنَّ (ʔanna), shifting the subject of the clause to the accusative case. The subject of the clause must immediately follow لَعَلَّ (laʕalla); if it is a pronoun, it must be expressed.
* Unlike لِ (li), لِكَي (likay), and حَتَّى (ḥattā), لَعَلَّ (laʕalla) places its subordinate verb in the indicative mood, even when used to mean "in order," "so that."

##### Inflection

Inflected forms :
| Base form | Base form | Base form | Base form | Base form | لَعَلَّ (laʕalla) |
| Personal-pronoun- including forms | Singular | Singular | Dual | Plural | Plural |
| Personal-pronoun- including forms | Masculine | Feminine | Common | Masculine | Feminine |
| First person | لَعَلِّي (laʕallī) | لَعَلِّي (laʕallī) | لَعَلَّنَا (laʕallanā) | لَعَلَّنَا (laʕallanā) | لَعَلَّنَا (laʕallanā) |
| Second person | لَعَلَّكَ (laʕallaka) | لَعَلَّكِ (laʕallaki) | لَعَلَّكُمَا (laʕallakumā) | لَعَلَّكُمْ (laʕallakum) | لَعَلَّكُنَّ (laʕallakunna) |
| Third person | لَعَلَّهُ (laʕallahu) | لَعَلَّهَا (laʕallahā) | لَعَلَّهُمَا (laʕallahumā) | لَعَلَّهُمْ (laʕallahum) | لَعَلَّهُنَّ (laʕallahunna) |

##### Alternative forms

* عَلَّ (ʕalla), لَعَاءَ (laʕāʔa)

##### See also

* (ʾinna and her sisters) إِنَّ وَأَخَوَاتُهَا (ʔinna waʔaḵawātuhā); إِنَّ (ʔinna), أَنَّ (ʔanna), لٰكِنَّ (lākinna), كَأَنَّ (kaʔanna), لِأَنَّ (liʔanna), لٰكِنَّ (lākinna), لَعَلَّ (laʕalla), لَيْتَ (layta),

### Etymology 2

From Persian لال (lâl)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laʕl/

#### Noun

لَعْل • (laʕl) m
* a red gemstone, cornelian, garnet, spinel, tourmaline

##### Derived terms

* لَعْلِيّ (laʕliyy)

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: ləl
* → Persian: لعل (la'l)
* → Kazakh: лағыл (lağyl)
* → Kyrgyz: лаал (laal)
* → Tajik: лаъл (laʾl)
* → Uzbek: laʼl

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَعْل (laʕl), from Persian لال (lâl).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [laʔl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [läʔl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [läʔl]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [lɑːl]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [lɔːl̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [læʔl̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [läʔl]

### Noun

لعل • (la'l)
* red gemstone; ruby, spinel, garnet
    Synonym: یاقوت (yâqut)
* (poetic, figurative) the beautiful lips of the beloved
** c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 131:خامه مژگان سلیمی ساز پر شنگرف اشک زان که وصف لعل آن شیرین دهن خواهم نوشتxāma-yi mužagān-i salīmī sāz pur-i šangarf-i ašk z-ān ki wasf-i la'l-i ān šīrīn dahan xwāham niwištMake the brush of Selim's eyelashes full of the red ink of tears [red from eyes bloodshot due to weeping] For I will write descriptions of the ruby [metaphor: lips as red as rubies] of her sweet mouth.(Classical Persian transliteration)
* (poetic, figurative) red wine

#### Derived terms

* لعلی (la'li, “ruby-red”)