شهلة

شهلة

See also: شهله‎

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ش ه ل‎ (š-h-l).

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /ʃuh.la/

Noun

شُهْلَة • (šuhla) f (obsolete)

1. The color of anything أَشْهَل‎ (ʾašhal) or شَهْلَاء‎ (šahlāʾ).
   • d. c. 1048, Abu al-Walid al-Himyari, Kitab al-badi fi wasf al-rabi , (quoting Ibn Faraj al-Jayyani):

     كأكؤس فضة فيها ‖ نفايا شهلة الخمر

   • d. 1209, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Al-Firasa :

     أفضل ألوان العين الشهلة لأنها لون متوسط بين السواد و بين الزرقة والخضرة

     • 1999 translation by James Nathan Ford[1]

       The best color of eyes is the brownish/tawny color, since it is an intermediary color between black (on one hand) and blue and green (on the other).

Declension

Declension of noun شُهْلَة (šuhla)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	شُهْلَة šuhla	الشُّهْلَة‎ aš-šuhla	شُهْلَة šuhlat
Nominative	شُهْلَةٌ šuhlatun	الشُّهْلَةُ‎ aš-šuhlatu	شُهْلَةُ šuhlatu
Accusative	شُهْلَةً šuhlatan	الشُّهْلَةَ‎ aš-šuhlata	شُهْلَةَ šuhlata
Genitive	شُهْلَةٍ šuhlatin	الشُّهْلَةِ‎ aš-šuhlati	شُهْلَةِ šuhlati

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /ʃah.la/

Adjective

شَهْلَة • (šahla) f

1. (of a woman) middle-aged, intelligent; old[2]

References

1. Ford, J. N. (1999), ““Ninety-Nine by the Evil Eye and One from Natural Causes”: KTU² 1.96 in its Near Eastern Context”, in Ugarit-Forschungen, volume 30: 1998, Ugarit-Verlag, pages 242, note 136
2. Lane, Edward William (1863), “شهلة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate