إهليلج

Arabic

إِهْلِيلَج

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Persian hlylk' (halīlag, myrobalan), through a form like Hindi हर्रा (harra), from Sanskrit हरीतकी (harītakī), ultimately from a Dravidian source; compare Telugu కరక (karaka).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔih.liː.lad͡ʒ/

Noun

إِهْلِيلَج (ʾihlīlaj) m (plural إِهْلِيلَجَات (ʾihlīlajāt))

  1. myrobalan (fruit and tree of Terminalia)
  2. ellipse

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle Armenian: հլելիճ (hlelič), հլէլիճ (hlēlič)
  • Georgian: ალილეჩა (alileča)

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), հալիլա”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 10ab
  • Freytag, Georg (1837), إهليلج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 403
  • Seidel, Ernst (1908) Mechithar’s, des Meisterarztes aus Her, ‘Trost bei Fiebern’: nach dem Venediger Druck vom Jahre 1832 zum ersten Male aus dem Mittelarmenischen übersetzt und erläutert (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, § 103, pages 138–139
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), إهليلج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1355
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