إِسْرَائِيلُ

proper noun · 1 entry · Qur'ānic frequency 43

This is Lane’s article on إِسْرَائِيلُ. In the printed Lexicon he files it under سرأل — that is where it appears on the page, not the word’s root.

Lane’s articleإِسْرَائِيلُ3 senses · 1 main

A surname of [the patriarch] Jacob.

Also pronounced إِسْرَائِلُ, and إِسْرَائِلُّ, and إِسْرَالُ, and إِسْرَايِيلُ.

1.1

And the name of a certain angel.

Also pronounced إِسْرَائِينُ, in which Yaakoob asserts the ن to be a substitute for the ل.

1.2

[But the ! is more properly to be regarded as a radical letter.]

Show Lane's original text

a surname of [the patriarch] Jacob; (Ksh and Bd * and Jel * in ii. 38;) also pronounced إِسْرَائِلُ , (Ksh and Bd ibid.,) and إِسْرَائِلُّ , (Ksh ibid.,) and إِسْرَالُ , and إِسْرَايِيلُ . (Bd ibid.) And the name of A certain angel; also pronounced إِسْرَائِينُ ; in which the ن is asserted by Yaakoob to be a substitute for the ل . (TA.) [But the ! is more properly to be regarded as a radical letter.]