אגרטל

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Hebrew

Etymology

Etymology disputed. Many theories exist, the main ones being:

From Aramaic קרטל (qarṭāl, “basket”) (Syriac spelling ܩܪܛܠܐ) which itself could be from:
- Hittite 𒄑𒆳𒋫𒀀𒀠 (kurtal-, kartal-)
- Middle Persian glyw' (grīw, “a measure of grain, a peck”) + -dʾl (dār, “holder, keeper, container of”), or
- from Ancient Greek.
From Ancient Greek κάρταλλος (kártallos, “basket with a pointed bottom”), possibly being from either a native Indo-European source or from Aramaic קרטל (qarṭāl, “basket”).
the Jerusalem Talmud theorizes that the term is a compound of אָגַר (agar, “to accumulate, to store, to hoard”) +‎ טָלֶה (tale, “lamb”), this combination was because the Agartalim were allegedly used to collect the blood of lambs.

Pronunciation

(Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)aɡ.aʁ̞.tal/
(Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔăɣ.ar.tˤɔːl/

Noun

אֲגַרְטָל • (agartal) m

(biblical), (archaic) a kind of vessel, basin, basket.
vase
Synonym: ואזה

References

H105 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

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