طحال

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Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ṭiḥāl-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tˤi.ħaːl/
    • (Al-Andalus) IPA(key): /tˤaj.ħaːl/
    • (Morocco) IPA(key): /tˤiː.ħaːl/, /tˤaj.ħaːl/, /tˤiː.ħaːn/, /tˤaj.ħaːn/

Noun

طِحَال (ṭiḥālm (plural طِحَالَات (ṭiḥālāt) or أَطْحِلَة (ʔaṭḥila) or طُحُل (ṭuḥul))

  1. spleen, milt

Declension

Derived terms

  • أَطْحَل (ʔaṭḥal, of ash-colour)
  • طُحْلَة (ṭuḥla, ash-colour)
  • طُحْل (ṭuḥl, dregs, lees)
  • طَحَلَ (ṭaḥala, to hurt the spleen)
  • طَحِلَ (ṭaḥila, to have the spleen large or to have pain therein; to be of ash colour; to be spleenful, to be angry; to become stinking by reason of black mud)

Descendants

  • Gujarati: તિહાલ (tihāl)
  • Persian: طحال (tahâl)
  • Ottoman Turkish: طحال (tahal)
    • Turkish: tahal (obsolete)

Khalaj

Noun

طَحال (tahâl) (definite accusative طَحالؽ, plural طَحاللار)

  1. Arabic spelling of tahâl (spleen)

Declension

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic طِحَال (ṭiḥāl).

Noun

طحال (tahal)

  1. spleen, milt, a vascular gland located in the left upper abdomen
    Synonyms: سپرز (supurz), طالاق (dalak)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: tahal (obsolete)

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طحال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 800
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lien”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 949
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طحال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3091
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طحال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1234

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic طِحَال (ṭiḥāl).

Noun

طحال (tahâl) (plural طحال‌ها (tahâl-hâ) or طحل (tohol))

  1. spleen, milt
    Synonym: اسپرز (esporz)

Descendants

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic طِحَال (ṭiḥāl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tˤħaːl/,
  • Audio (Ramallah):(file)

Noun

طحال (ṭḥālm

  1. spleen, milt