كحلاء

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Arabic

Root
ك ح ل (k ḥ l)
5 terms
كَحْلَاءAlkanna matthioli
كَحْلَاءEchium angustifolium
كَحْلَاءAlkanna matthioli, syn. of Alkanna tinctoria
كَحْلَاءCalendula arvensis
كَحْلَاءOblada melanura

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Pronunciation

Noun

كَحْلَاء (kaḥlāʔf

  1. alkanet (Alkanna spp.)
  2. bugloss (Echium spp.)
  3. marigold (Calendula spp.)
  4. saddle bream (Oblada melanura)[1]
    • 1154, al-ʾIdrīsīy, نزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق, الإقليم الأول - الجزء الثاني:
      وهذه البحيرة من أعاجيب الدنيا وذلك أن بها اثني عشر نوعاً من السمك يوجد منها في كل شهر نوع واحد لا يمتزج بغيره من أصناف السمك فإذا تم الشهر لم يوجد شيء من ذلك النوع في الشهر الآتي ثم يوجد في الشهر الآتي صنف من السمك آخر غير الصنف الأول لا يمتزج بغيره هكذا لكل شهر نوع من السمك لا يمتزج بسمك غيره إلى كمال السنة هكذا في كل عام وهذه الاثنا عشر نوع من الحوت التي ذكرناها هي البوري والقاجوج والمحل والطلنط والاشبلينيات والشلبة والقاروض واللاج والجوجة والكحلاء والطنفلو والقلا.
      This lake is one of the wonders of the world, for it has twelve species of fish, each month one is found therein, not mixing with any other species than itself, and when the month ends, nothing of that fish is found in the coming month, then in the coming month an other kind of fish is encountered, different from the first kind and not mixing with anything other than itself, thus every month a species of fish that does not mix with other fish, up to completion of a year and so every year, and these twelve species of fish that we have related are .

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Descendants

  • Maltese: kaħla, also in compounds for names of other plants like dubbiena kaħla
  • Spanish: alcohela

References

  1. ^ identified in علي أبو قلام (2016) دليل الحلال من الحيوان (in Arabic), Ba؜ḡdād: Najma aṣ-Ṣabāḥ, page 78, idem علي أبو قلام (2016) دليل الحلال من الحيوان (in Arabic), Ba؜ḡdād: Najma aṣ-Ṣabāḥ, page 351