חלון

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /χaˈlɔn/

Compare Ugaritic 𐎈𐎍𐎐 (ḥln, “window”). The Ugaritic form makes unlikely the traditional association with חָלַל‎ (“to pierce”), cognate with Arabic خَلَّ‎ (ḵalla, “to bore, to punch”).

חַלּוֹן • (khalón) m or f (plural indefinite חַלּוֹנוֹת‎)

1. a window
   • Ezekiel 40:16, with translation of the American Standard Version:

     ‏וְחַלֹּנוֹת אֲטֻמוֹת אֶל הַתָּאִים‎

     And there were closed windows to the lodges

   • 1891, Hayim Nahman Bialik, To the Bird 1–2

     ‏שָׁלוֹם רָב שׁוּבֵךְ, צִפֹּרָה נֶחְמֶדֶת, \ מֵאַרְצוֹת הַחֹם אֶל־חַלּוֹנִי –‎‎

     Welcome back to my window lovely bird, / On your return from the warm lands to my window –

2. (slang) a free period

• In modern Hebrew the word is usually masculine.

חִלּוּן • (khilún) m

1. defective spelling of חילון‎

• “חלון‎” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language.
• H2474 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979