أُلَى
Root: الى
Full Definition
2 The particle هَا used as an inceptive to give notice of what is about to be said is prefixed to it, [i. e., to the form with the lengthened ا,] so that you say, [meaning These, like as هذَا means “this”]. And AZ says that some of the Arabs say, هؤَلَآءِ قَوْمُكَ [These are thy people], and رَأَيْتُ [I saw these], with tenween and kesr to the hemzeh; and this, says IJ, is of the dial. of Benoo-'Okeyl.
3 And the ك of allocution is added to it, so that you say, أُولئِكَ, [or آُولَآئِكَ, which is the same, and أُولئِكُمْ, or أُولَآئِكُمْ, &c.,] and أُولَاكَ, and أُولَالِكَ, or أُلَالِكَ, in which the [second] ل is augmentative, and أُلَّاكَ , with teshdeed, [all meaning Those, like as ذَاكَ and ذلِكَ mean “that” and hence] Ks says that when one says أُولَآئكَ, the sing. is ذلِكَ; and when one says أُولَاكَ, the sing. is ذَاكَ; or أُلَالِكَ [or أُولَالِكَ, each with an augmentative ل, like ذلِكَ, ] is as though it were pl. of ذلِكَ: but one does not say هَاؤُلَالِكَ, or هأُولَالِكَ, [nor هَؤُلَائِكَ, or the like.] [Thus it is said in the Kur ii. 4, أُولَآئِكَ عَلَ هُدًى مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ وَأُولَآئِكَ هُمُ المُفْلِحُونَ Those follow a right direction from their Lord, and those are they who shall prosper.] And sometimes أُولَآئِكَ is applied to irrational
4 The dims. are and and : for the formation of the dim. of a noun of vague application does not alter its commencement, but leaves it in its original state, with fet-h or damm, [as the case may be,] and the ى which is the characteristic of the dim. is inserted in the second place if the word is one of two letters, [as in the instance of ذَيَّا, dim. of ذَا,] and in the third place if it is a word of three letters.
def.2 الأُلَى, of the same measure as العُلَى; or الأُلَا; or الأُولَى; is likewise a pl. having no proper sing., [meaning They who, those which, and simply who, and which,] its sing. being الَّذِى; or is changed from being a noun of indication so as to have the meaning of الَّذِينَ; as also ; wherefore they have the lengthened as well as the shortened alif, and that with the lengthened alif is made indecl. by terminating with a kesreh. A poet says,
[And they who are in Et-Taff, of the family of Háshim, shared their property, one with another, and so set the example, to the generous, of the sharing of property]. (T, and S in art.وَإِنَّ الإُولَى بِالطَّفِّ مِنْ آلِ هَاشِمٍ تَآسَوْا فَسَنُّوا لِلْكِرَامِ التَّآسِيَا
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