خرطال

Arabic

خَرْطَال

Alternative forms

خَرْطَل‎ (ḵarṭal)

Etymology

From the root ق ر ط ل‎ (q-r-ṭ-l) meaning “a packsaddle”, “a basket or bag intended for provisions”, from Aramaic קרטל‎ (qarṭāl, “basket”) (Christian spelling ܩܪܛܠܐ‎), which could be:

from Hittite 𒄑𒆳𒋫𒀀𒀠 (kurtal-, kartal-)
borrowed from Ancient Greek κάρταλος (kártalos), κάρταλλος (kártallos) which is
- either from Ancient Greek κυρτία (kurtía, “anything made of wicker”); for more see Proto-Indo-European *kert-, found in Sanskrit कृणत्ति (kṛṇátti, “to twist thread, to spin”), Sanskrit चृटति (cṛṭáti, “to bind, to fasten together”), Latin crātis (“wattle fence, corral”), English hurdle.
- or borrowed from Aramaic, from Hittite, in which case the Aramaic is not from Ancient Greek
derived from Middle Persian glyw' (grīw, “a measure of grain, a peck”) + -dʾl (dār, “holder, keeper, container of”).

This must also be the name for “more than one of the highly succulent salt marsh chenopods that are considered poor grazing for camels” like Bienertia cycloptera and Suaeda aegyptiaca Mandaville records from various Najdi tribes as هَرْطَلَّس‎ (harṭallas), هَطَلَّس‎ (hatạllas), هَرْطَبِيل‎ (harṭabīl), هُرْطُمَان‎ (hurṭumān), طَرْطَيع‎ (ṭartēʿ), هَطْلَس‎ (haṭlas) but curiously describes as seemingly involving a quinqueliteral root.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xar.tˁaːl/

Noun

خَرْطَال • (ḵarṭāl) m

oat (Avena gen. et spp.)
Synonym: شُوفَان‎ (šūfān)

Declension

Declension of noun خَرْطَال (ḵarṭāl)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خَرْطَال ḵarṭāl	الْخَرْطَال‎ al-ḵarṭāl	خَرْطَال ḵarṭāl
Nominative	خَرْطَالٌ ḵarṭālun	الْخَرْطَالُ‎ al-ḵarṭālu	خَرْطَالُ ḵarṭālu
Accusative	خَرْطَالًا‎ ḵarṭālan	الْخَرْطَالَ‎ al-ḵarṭāla	خَرْطَالَ ḵarṭāla
Genitive	خَرْطَالٍ ḵarṭālin	الْخَرْطَالِ‎ al-ḵarṭāli	خَرْطَالِ ḵarṭāli