خ ل خ ل
Arabic
Etymology
Likely reduplication of خ ل ل (ḵ-l-l) related to transfixation since a leg is put through an anklet.
Root
خ ل خ ل • (ḵ-l-ḵ-l)
- related to being agitated and losing grip
Derived terms
- Form Iq: خَلْخَلَ (ḵalḵala, “to agitate, to convulse, to stir”)
- Verbal noun: خَلْخَلَة (ḵalḵala)
- Active participle: مُخَلْخِل (muḵalḵil)
- Passive participle: مُخَلْخَل (muḵalḵal)
- Form IIq: تَخَلْخَلَ (taḵalḵala, “to be agitated, to convulse, to be stirred; to become detached, to become slack, to lose grip”)
- Verbal noun: تَخَلْخُل (taḵalḵul)
- Active participle: مُتَخَلْخِل (mutaḵalḵil)
- خَلْخَال (ḵalḵāl, “anklet”)
References
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “خ ل خ ل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 389–390
- Freytag, Georg (1830), “خ ل خ ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 512
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “خ ل خ ل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 611–612
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “خ ل خ ل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 294
- Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “خ ل خ ل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 354