דקל

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈde.kel/

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Compare Aramaic דִּקְלָא (diqlā), Arabic دَقَل (daqal).

דֶּקֶל • (dékel) m (plural indefinite דְּקָלִים)

1. palm tree
   • a. 217 C.E., Mishnah, Pe'ah 4:1:

     הַפֵּאָה נִתֶּנֶת בִּמְחֻבָּר לַקַּרְקָע. בְּדָלִית וּבְדֶקֶל, בַּעַל הַבַּיִת מוֹרִיד וּמְחַלֵּק לָעֲנִיִּים.

     hap-pēˀā nitteneṯ bi-mḥubbār laq-qarqāˁ. bə-ḏālīṯ u-və-ḏeqel, baˁal hab-bayiṯ mōrīḏ u-mḥallēq lā-ˁăniyyīm.

     The corner tithe is given when still attached to the soil. In the case of the vine and the palm tree, the landowner goes down and apportions it to the poor.

   • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah 28a:

     אָמְרוּ עָלָיו עַל רַבָּן יוֹחָנָן בֶּן זַכַּאי שֶׁלֹּא הִנִּיחַ מִקְרָא וּמִשְׁנָה גְּמָרָא הֲלָכוֹת וְאַגָּדוֹת דִּקְדּוּקֵי תּוֹרָה וְדִקְִדּוּקֵי סוֹפְרִים קַלִּים וַחֲמוֹרִים וּגְזֵרוֹת שָׁווֹת תְּקוּפוֹת וְגִימַטְרִיָּאוֹת שִׂיחַת מַלְאֲכֵי הַשָּׁרֵת וְשִׂיחַת שֵׁדִים וְשִׂיחַת דְּקָלִים מַשְׁלוֹת כֻּבְסִין מַשְׁלוֹת שׁוּעָלִים דָּבָר גָּדוֹל וְדָבָר קָטָן

     amrū ˁālāw ˁal rabbān yōḥānān ben zakkay šel-lō hinī^aḥ miqrā u-mišnā, gəmārā, hălāḵōṯ wə-aggāḏōṯ, diqdūqē tōrā wə-ḏiqdūqē sōfərīm, qallīm wa-ḥămōrīm u-ḡəzērōṯ šāwōṯ, təqūfōṯ wə-ḡīmaṭriyyāˀōṯ, śīḥaṯ malˀăḵē haš-šārēṯ wə-śīḥaṯ šēḏīm wə-śīḥaṯ dəqālīm, mašlōṯ kuvsīn, mašlōṯ šūˁālīm, dāvār gāḏōl wə-ḏāvār qāṭān.

     They said of Rabban Yochanan son of Zakkai that he did not neglect Bible, Mishnah, Gemara, legal works and folktales, minutiae of the Torah, minutiae of the scribes, a fortiori inferences and verbal analogies, seasons, numerology, the conversation of the ministering angels, and the conversation of demons and the conversation of palm trees, parables of launderers, parables of foxes, great things or small things.

2. date (the fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel)
   • a. 217 C.E., Mishnah, Avodah Zarah 1:5:

     רַבִּי מֵאִיר אוֹמֵר, אַף דֶּקֶל טָב וַחֲצָב וְנִקְלִיבָם אָסוּר לִמְכֹּר לְגוֹיִם:

     rabbī mēˀīr ōmēr, af deqel ṭāv wa-ḥăṣāv wə-niqlīvām āsūr li-mkōr lə-ḡōyīm.

     Rabbi Meir says: good dates, sweet ones, and ones from Nikolaos are also forbidden to be sold to non-Jews.

• “דקל” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

• דקל on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

From German Dackel.

דָּקֶל • (dákel) m

1. dachshund (a certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties)

• תַּחַשׁ (tákhash)
• כֶּלֶב נַקְנִיק (kélev nakník)