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ع د ل (ʕ d l)
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Derived from the active participle of اِعْتَدَلَ (iʕtadala, to straighten up).

مُعْتَدِل (muʕtadil) (feminine مُعْتَدِلَة (muʕtadila), masculine plural مُعْتَدِلُونَ (muʕtadilūna), feminine plural مُعْتَدِلَات (muʕtadilāt))

  1. straight, even, proportionate
  2. temperate, mild, moderate
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “قدم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic مُعْتَدِل (muʕtadil).

Readings
Classical reading? mu'taḏil
Dari reading? mo'tadil
Iranian reading? mo'tadel
Tajik reading? müʾtadil
Dari معتدل
Iranian Persian
Tajik мӯътадил

مُعتَدِل (mo'tadel)

  1. well proportioned
  2. temperate, mild (of a climate)
    آب و هوای معتدلâb o havâ-ye mo'tadeltemperate climate