هيل

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ه ي ل (h-y-l) in the sense of “pouring” and “pile”, as the Arab custom is to place cardamom pods in coffee, pouring it through the pods that pile up at the spout of a coffee pot.

Noun

هَيْل • (hayl) m

  1. verbal noun of هَالَ (hāla) (form I)
  2. piled sand
Declension

Verb

هَيَّلَ • (hayyala) II, non-past يُهَيِّلُ‎ (yuhayyilu)

  1. (transitive) to pile, to dump
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From early Persian هیل (hil), from Sanskrit एला (elā), from Proto-Dravidian *ēla (cardamom).

Alternative forms

Noun

هَيْل • (hayl) m

  1. cardamom
Declension
Descendants
  • Gulf Arabic: هيل (hēl)
  • Hijazi Arabic: هيل pl (hēl)
  • Amharic: ሔል (ḥel)
  • Hebrew: הֶל (hel)
  • Middle Armenian: հիլ (hil)
  • Somali: heeyl
  • Tigrinya: ሄል (hel)

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “هيل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 425
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “هيل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1368–1369

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic هَيْل (hayl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈheːl/, [ˈhe̞ːl]

Noun

هيل • (hēl) m (collective, singulative هيلة f (hēla))

  1. cardamom

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic هَيْل (hayl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /heːl/

Noun

هيل • (hēl) m

  1. cardamom
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