حلون

Arabic

Etymology

Either from an -ōn diminutive of חַלְתָא / ܚܠܬܐ (ḥalləṯā, definite state), Aramaic חַלָּה / ܚܠܐ (ḥallā, absolute state), from Hebrew חַלָּה (ḥallá, “loaf; challah”), or a Mozarabic reborrowing with Romance -ón ending.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħal.luːn/

Noun

حَلُّون • (ḥallūn) m

1. (al-Andalus) a kind of bun, ash bread
   • a. 1160, Ibn Quzman, edited by Federico Corriente, Dīwān (in Andalusian Arabic), Cairo: Supreme Council of Culture, published 1995, page 222:

     الْحَلُّونْ يُعْجَنْ وَٱلْغِزْلَانْ تُبَاعْ.
     يَفْرَحْ لِلْيَنَّيْرْ مَنْ مَّاءُهْ قِطَاعْ
     لَقَدْ ذَا ٱلنَّصْيَاتْ أَشْكَالًا مَّلَاحْ
     وَفِيهَا بَٱللّٰهْ لَلْعَيْنِ ٱنْشِرَاحْ
     وَمَن لَّسْ مَاعُ أَوْلَاد اَسْتَرَاحْ
     إِلَّا مَنْ يَّدْرِي فَيْ اَلْحَالِ ٱتِّسَاعْ

     al-ḥallūn yuʕjan wal-ḡizlān tubāʕ.
     yafraḥ li-l-yannayr man māʔuh qiṭāʕ
     laqad ḏā n-naṣyāt ʔaškālan malāḥ
     wa-fī-hā ba-llāh l-al-ʕayni nširāḥ
     wa-man las māʕu ʔawlād astarāḥ
     ʔillā man yadrī fay ʔalḥāli ttisāʕ

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Declension

Declension of noun حَلُّون (ḥallūn)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَلُّون ḥallūn	الْحَلُّون al-ḥallūn	حَلُّون ḥallūn
Nominative	حَلُّونٌ ḥallūnun	الْحَلُّونُ al-ḥallūnu	حَلُّونُ ḥallūnu
Accusative	حَلُّونًا ḥallūnan	الْحَلُّونَ al-ḥallūna	حَلُّونَ ḥallūna
Genitive	حَلُّونٍ ḥallūnin	الْحَلُّونِ al-ḥallūni	حَلُّونِ ḥallūni

Descendants

• → Spanish: hallulla, hallullo, hallula, hallulo

Further reading

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 365
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 365
• Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 136–137