حلب

Arabic Wikipedia has an article on:

حلب

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Perhaps from the root ح ل ب (ḥ-l-b), coming from the ancient tradition that Abraham gave milk to travelers as they moved throughout the region.

• IPA^(key): /ħa.lab/

حَلَب • (ḥalab) f

1. Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
2. Aleppo (a governorate of Syria).

• حَلَبِيّ (ḥalabiyy)

• → Avar: Хӏалаб (Ḥʳalab)
• → Azerbaijani: Hələb
• → Bengali: হলব (holob)
• → Chagatai: حلب
  • Uyghur: ھەلەب (heleb)
  • Uzbek: Halab
• → Central Kurdish: حەلەب (ḧeleb)
• → Chechen: Хьалаб (Ḥʳalab)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: हलब (halab)
  • Urdu: حَلَب (halab)
• → Northern Kurdish: Heleb
• → Ottoman Turkish: حلب (Haleb, vulg. Halep)
  • Turkish: Halep
  • → Albanian: Halepi
  • → Armenian: Հալեպ (Halep)
  • → Greek: Χαλέπι (Chalépi)
  • → French: Alep
    • → Italian: Aleppo
      • → Danish: Aleppo
      • → Dutch: Aleppo
      • → English: Aleppo
      • → Finnish: Aleppo
      • → German: Aleppo
      • → Norwegian: Aleppo
      • → Polish: Aleppo
      • → Russian: Алеппо (Aleppo)
      • → Swedish: Aleppo
      • → Ukrainian: Алеппо (Aleppo)
• → Pashto: حلب (haláb)
• → Persian: حلب (halab)
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਹਲਬ (halab)
  • Shahmukhi script: حَلَب (ḥalab)
• → Sindhi: حلب
• → Turkmen: Halap

Cognate with Hebrew חלב (khaláv).

حَلَبَ • (ḥalaba) I (non-past يَحْلُبُ (yaḥlubu) or يَحْلِبُ (yaḥlibu), verbal noun حَلْب (ḥalb) or حِلَاب (ḥilāb))

1. to milk
2. (rare) to yield milk
3. (rare) to grant milking, to assign an animal to milk

حَلِبَ • (ḥaliba) I (non-past يَحْلَبُ (yaḥlabu), verbal noun حَلَب (ḥalab))

1. to be black

حَلْب • (ḥalb) m

1. verbal noun of حَلَبَ (ḥalaba) (form I)

حَلَب • (ḥalab) m

1. verbal noun of حَلِبَ (ḥaliba) (form I)
2. fresh milk

Related to the milk-giving qualities of these plants, compare the Spanish name of the spurge lechetrezna; but possibly from Classical Syriac, ܚܰܠܒ݂ܳܐ (ḥalbā, “milk”), construct state ܚܠܷܒ (ḥăleḇ), also meaning “spurge” in compounds.

• حِلِبْلَاب (ḥiliblāb), حِلْبَاب (ḥilbāb), حُلَّاب (ḥullāb)

حُلَّب • (ḥullab) m

1. Flueggea tinctoria; Euphorbia aegyptiaca and Euphorbia granulata

   Synonym: عَوْسَج صَغِير (ʕawsaj ṣaḡīr)

   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 3, Art. 1, page 139:

   (Can we find and add a quotation of كتاب عمدة الطبيب في معرفة النبات لكل لبيب to this entry?)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ibn Wāfid to this entry?)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ibn Baṣṣāl to this entry?)

حَلَب • (ḥalab) m (collective, singulative حَلَبِيّ m (ḥalabiyy))

1. Ḥalab, one of the tribes of Doms in Egypt

حلب

1. Arabic spelling of Hələb

Borrowed from Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

حَلَب • (Haleb, vulg. Halep)

1. Aleppo (a city in Syria)

   Synonym: حلب الشهبا (Halebü'ş-Şehbâ, “Aleppo the Grey”)

• حلبی (Halebî, “Aleppine”)

• Turkish: Halep
• → Albanian: Halepi
• → Armenian: Հալեպ (Halep)
• → Greek: Χαλέπι (Chalépi)
• → French: Alep
  • → Italian: Aleppo
    • → Danish: Aleppo
    • → Dutch: Aleppo
    • → English: Aleppo
    • → Finnish: Aleppo
    • → German: Aleppo
    • → Norwegian: Aleppo
    • → Polish: Aleppo
    • → Russian: Алеппо (Aleppo)
    • → Swedish: Aleppo
    • → Ukrainian: Алеппо (Aleppo)

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حلب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 800

Pashto Wikipedia has an article on:

حلب

Wikipedia ^ps

Borrowed from Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

حَلَب • (haláb)

1. Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
2. Aleppo (a governorate of Syria).

Borrowed from Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

حلب • (halab)

1. Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 111:

     هست در دیده‌ام خیال لبت
     همچو شکر بشیشه‌های حلب

     hast dar dīda'am xayāl-i labat
     hamčū šikar ba-šīša-hā-yi halab

     Fantasies of your lips are in my eyes,
     Like sugar in Aleppo glass.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. Aleppo (a governorate of Syria).

Back-formation from حلبی (halabi), from the city name of Aleppo.

حلب • (halab)

1. tin (container)
2. tin plate

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “حلب”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Western Panjabi Wikipedia has an article on:

حلب

Wikipedia ^pnb

Borrowed from Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

حَلَب • (ḥalab) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਹਲਬ)

1. Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
2. Aleppo (a governorate of Syria).

Borrowed from Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

حلب • (transliteration needed)

1. Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
2. Aleppo (a governorate of Syria).

From Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

حلب • (ḥalab) m

1. Aleppo (a city in Syria)

Urdu Wikipedia has an article on:

حلب

Wikipedia ^ur

Borrowed from Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦə.ləb/
• Rhymes: -əb

حَلَب • (halab) m (Hindi spelling हलब)

1. Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
2. Aleppo (a governorate of Syria).

• حَلَبِی (ḥalabī, “Aleppine”)

• “حلب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.