خلر

Also found with metathesis in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic חורלא and Classical Syriac ܚܘܪܠܐ (ḥūrəlā, “a kind of Lathyrus”), and Hebrew חָרֻל (ḥārūl). Perhaps retaining the older order from Imperial Aramaic 𐡇𐡋𐡅𐡓 (ḥlwr /⁠ḥallūr⁠/, “1/40th of a shekel”, literally “bean”), used by the Achaemenids as its smallest monetary measure. From Akkadian 𒄬𒇻𒊒 (ḫallūru, ḫallāru, ḫillūru, ḫullūru /⁠ḫal-lu-ru⁠/, “chickpea; 1/10 shekel”), itself less likely to be of Semitic origin as the close pairing of /l/ and /r/ is not typical. Suggested ultimate Hurrian origin, possibly by way of Ugaritic 𒄷𒌌𒇻𒊒 (ḫu-ul-lu-ru), which is attested only in syllabic form. Compare Akkadian 𒄒 (/⁠šallūru⁠/, “plum”), another Hurrian loan into the Semitic family with the same pattern. Likely cognate also with Ancient Greek ὄλῡρᾰ (ólūra, “type of harvest or grain; spelt, rice-wheat”) and with Old Armenian ոլոռն (oloṙn, “pea”), dialectal Armenian քըլուր (kʻəlur, “a kind of corn resembling oats”), խըլօր (xəlōr, “millet-sized hail; a kind of millet-sized useless grain”), which may be derived from the same origin as the Akkadian through an Urartian intermediary.

• IPA^(key): /xul.lar/

خُلَّر • (ḵullar) m (uncountable, obsolete)

1. a not further identifiable Fabeae tribe legume
   • a. 889, Ibn Quṭayba ad-Dīnawarīy, edited by عَبْد اللّٰه الجبوري, كتاب غريب الحديث‎, 1st edition, volume 1, Baghdad, Iraq: مَطْبَعَة الْعَانِي, published 1977, pages 185–186:

     وَرَأى قوم على القطنية وَهِي الْحُبُوب مثل العدس والحمص والأرز والجلبان وَهُوَ الخلر والفول وَهُوَ الباقلاء وَهُوَ الجرجر أَيْضا وَأَحْسبهُ معربا والترمس وَهُوَ الجرجر الرُّومِي والدخن وَهن الجاورس واللوبياء والذرة وَأَشْبَاه ذَلِك مِمَّا يبْقى فِي أَيدي النَّاس لِلزَّكَاةِ لِأَنَّهَا حب.

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• “ḥwrlˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
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