كحل

See also: کچل and ك ح ل

Arabic

Etymology

The noun كُحْل (kuḥl) is borrowed from Aramaic כוחלא /‎ ܟܘܚܠܐ (kuḥlā), from Akkadian 𒉌𒌓𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (/guḫlu/, antimon, stibium). Everything else of this root ك ح ل (k-ḥ-l) is denominal.

Verb

كَحَلَ (kaḥala) I, non-past يَكْحُلُ or يَكْحَلُ‎ (yakḥulu or yakḥalu)

  1. to rub with kohl (stibnite), to paint with kohl

Conjugation

Verb

كَحَّلَ (kaḥḥala) II, non-past يُكَحِّلُ‎ (yukaḥḥilu)

  1. to rub with kohl (stibnite), to paint with kohl

Conjugation

Noun

كُحْل (kuḥl) m (plural أَكْحَال (ʾakḥāl))

  1. antimony
  2. kohl, stibnite (pulverized antimony)

Declension

Descendants

  • Ge'ez: ኵሕል (kʷəḥəl)
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: kil
    Central Kurdish: کِل (kil)
    Southern Kurdish: کِڵ (kill)
  • Persian: کpل (kohl)

Noun

كَحَل (kaḥal) m

  1. black coloring of the edges of the eyelids

Declension

Adjective

كَحِل (kaḥil)

  1. darkened with kohl, dyed black (of the eyelids)

Declension

  • كُحَيْلِيّ (kuḥayliyy, thoroughbred horse)
  • مُكَحَّل (mukaḥḥal)
  • مُكْحَلَة (mukḥala)

Noun

كَحْل (kaḥl) m

  1. verbal noun of كَحُلَ (kaḥula) (form I)
  2. verbal noun of كَحَلَ (kaḥala) (form I)

Declension

Further reading

  • Hille, K. A. (1851), “Ueber den Gebrauch und die Zusammensetzung der orientalischen Augenschminke (الكُحْل)”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 5, pages 236–242
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 40
  • Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 61
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