قلة

From the root ق ل ل‎ (q-l-l).

قِلَّة • (qilla) f (plural قِلَل‎ (qilal))

1. verbal noun of قَلَّ‎ (qalla) (form I)
2. littleness, smallness, scarceness, fewness
3. lack, want, poverty
4. fit of trembling

قُلَّة • (qulla) f (plural قُلَل‎ (qulal))

1. peak, summit, vertex, apogee

Borrowed from Aramaic קוּלְתָא‎ (qulləṯā), same. From Akkadian 𒄣𒇷𒌋 (qulliu, “a bowl”), older Akkadian 𒄖𒌌𒇻 (gullu, “a container”), also Akkadian 𒄖𒌌𒆷𒌅 (gullatu, “ewer”). Also exists as Biblical Hebrew גֻלָּה‎ (gullāh), Ugaritic 𐎂𐎍 (gl), Eblaite 𒄘𒇷𒈝 (GÚ-LI-LUM). Directly from Classical Syriac ܩܽܘܠܬܳܐ‎ (qulləṯā): Latin culullus (“wine jug”), Ancient Greek κόλλαθον (kóllathon, “a unit of liquid measure used in Syria”) (also rendered as Latin collathum and reborrowed as Classical Syriac ܩܘܠܐܬܘܢ /‎ ܩܘܠܬܘܢ‎). Also from Semitic: Ancient Greek γαυλός (gaulós, “a kind of round vase for drinking”) and γαῦλος (gaûlos, “a kind of Punic freight vessel”), from which both Latin gaulus.

• جُلَّة‎ (julla)

قُلَّة • (qulla) f (plural قِلَال‎ (qilāl))

1. jug, jar, pitcher, ewer (especially of wine)
   • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 34:27:

     ‏رَأَيْتُنَا نَغْتَرِفُ مِنْ وَقْبِ عَيْنِهِ [ٱلْعَنْبَرِ] بِٱلْقِلَالِ الدُّهْنَ وَنَقْتَطِعُ مِنْهُ الْفِدَرَ كَٱلثَّوْرِ أَوْ كَقَدْرِ الثَّوْرِ‎

     raʾaytunā naḡtarifu min waqbi ʿaynihi [l-ʿanbari] bi-l-qilāli d-duhna wanaqtaṭiʿu minhu l-fidara kaṯ-ṯawri ʾaw kaqadri ṯ-ṯawri

     I saw how we extracted pitcher after pitcher full of fat from the cavity of its [the sperm whale’s] eye, and cut from it pieces of meat resembling a bull or being of the measure of a bull.

   • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 36:6:

     ‏فَإِنَّ الْخَمْرَ قَدْ حُرِّمَتْ فَقَالَ يَا أَنَسُ أَرِقْ هَذِهِ الْقِلَالَ‎

     faʾinna l-ḵamra qad ḥurrimat faqāla yā ʾanasu ʾariq haḏihi l-qilāla

     Verily, wine has been forbidden. O Anas, spill these pitchers!

• → Catalan: alcolla, ancolla
• → Coptic: ⲕⲉⲗⲱⲗ (kelōl) ?
• → Spanish: alcolla

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