# شكل
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

شَكَلَ • (šakala) I (non-past يَشْكُلُ (yaškulu), verbal noun شَكْل (šakl))
* to hobble (an animal)
* to vocalize (a text)
* to become dubious or confused

#### Conjugation
### Verb

شَكَّلَ • (šakkala) II (non-past يُشَكِّلُ (yušakkilu), verbal noun تَشْكِيل (taškīl))
* to become dubious or confused
* to form
* to form, to fashion, to figure,to shape, to sculpture, to picture
* to pose
    يشكِّلون تهديدًا على بلده. ― They pose a threat to his country.

#### Conjugation
### Noun

شَكْل • (šakl) m (plural أَشْكَال (ʔaškāl) or شُكُول (šukūl))
* verbal noun of شَكَلَ (šakala) (form I)
* likeness, resemblance, semblance
* model, pattern, mode, manner
* shape, form, figure
* kind, sort, variety
* way, course, mode, manner of acting; conduct
* aim, intention, purpose
* something suitable, fit or proper for someone
* vocalization of a text
* a species of plant, yellow and red in color
* coquettishness

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: şəkil
* → Bashkir: шикелле (şikelle)
* → Baluchi: شکل
* → Persian: شکل
** → Urdu: شکل
*** → Phalura: šíkal
* → Ottoman Turkish: شكل
** Turkish: şekil
* → Turkmen: şekil
* → Uyghur: شەكىل (shekil)
* → Uzbek: shakl
* (via plural) → Ottoman Turkish: اشكال
** Turkish: eşkâl

### Noun

شَكْل • (šakl) m (plural أَشْكَال (ʔaškāl))
* verbal noun of شَكَلَ (šakala) (form I)
* a dubious or confused matter
* an ear ornament of pearl or silver

#### Declension
### Noun

شُكُل • (šukul) pl
* plural of شِكَال (šikāl, “hobble”)

## North Levantine Arabic
### Noun

شكل • (šakl, šikl) m (plural اشكال (aškāl))
* kind, shape, the way something is, looks, or seems
* (false verb, with pronominal suffix) expresses English to seem
    شكلك نسيت ياللي قلتلك ياه مبارح.šaklak nsīt yalli ʔilt-illak yā mbāriḥ.You seem to have forgotten what I told you yesterday.

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَكْل (šakl).

### Noun

شكل • (şekl, şekil) (plural اشكال)
* form, shape, figure
    Synonyms: رسم (resm, resim), صورت (suret)
* mathematical or other diagram
* sort, kind, manner
* grade, degree, stage
* guise, appearance, aspect

#### Derived terms

* شكلسز (şekilsiz, “shapeless”)
* شكللو (şekilli, “having a shape”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: şekil

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şekil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4452
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شكل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 732
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Forma”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 601
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شكل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2846
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şekil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شكل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1133

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic شَكَّلَ (šakkala).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃak.kal/, [ˈʃak.kal]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Verb

شكّل • (šakkal) II (present بشكّل (bišakkel))
* to form, to shape, to give shape to
    Synonym: كوّن (kawwan)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Arabic شِكْل (šikl).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃikl/, [ˈʃɪ.k(ɪ)l]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

#### Noun

شكل • (šikl) m (plural أشكال (ʔaškāl))
* form, shape, appearance
* (by extension, with enclitic determiner) to seem
    شكله صاحبي أصوله لبنانيّة.šiklo ṣāḥbi ʔuṣūlo lubnāniyyeIt seems my friend's origins are Lebanese.