إهليلج

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Arabic

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إِهْلِيلَج

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (hlylk' /⁠halīlag⁠/, myrobalan), from Sanskrit हरीतकी (harītakī), ultimately from a Dravidian source; compare Telugu కరక (karaka).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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إِهْلِيلَج (ʔihlīlajm (plural إِهْلِيلَجَات (ʔihlīlajāt))

  1. black myrobalan (fruit and tree of Terminalia chebula)
    Holonym: إِطْرِيفَل (ʔiṭrīfal)
    Coordinate terms: بَلِيلَج (balīlaj), أَمْلَج (ʔamlaj)
  2. myrobalan in general (fruit and tree of Terminalia gen. sive sp. qualibet)
  3. ellipse

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Descendants

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  • Middle Armenian: հլելիճ (hlelič), հլէլիճ (hlēlič)
  • Georgian: ალილეჩა (alileča)

References

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “հալիլա”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 10ab
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “إهليلج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 403
  • Seidel, Ernst (1908) Mechithar’s, des Meisterarztes aus Her, ‘Trost bei Fiebern’: nach dem Venediger Druck vom Jahre 1832 zum ersten Male aus dem Mittelarmenischen übersetzt und erläutert (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, § 103, pages 138–139
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “إهليلج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1355