خ ل خ ل

Arabic

Etymology

Likely reduplication of خ ل ل (ḵ-l-l) related to transfixation since a leg is put through an anklet.

Root

خ ل خ ل • (ḵ-l-ḵ-l)

1. related to being agitated and losing grip

Derived terms

• Form Iq: خَلْخَلَ (ḵalḵala, “to agitate, to convulse, to stir”)
  • Verbal noun: خَلْخَلَة (ḵalḵala)
  • Active participle: مُخَلْخِل (muḵalḵil)
  • Passive participle: مُخَلْخَل (muḵalḵal)
• Form IIq: تَخَلْخَلَ (taḵalḵala, “to be agitated, to convulse, to be stirred; to become detached, to become slack, to lose grip”)
  • Verbal noun: تَخَلْخُل (taḵalḵul)
  • Active participle: مُتَخَلْخِل (mutaḵalḵil)
  • Passive participle: مُتَخَلْخَل (mutaḵalḵal)

• خَلْخَال (ḵalḵāl, “anklet”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “خ ل خ ل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 389–390
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “خ ل خ ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 512
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “خ ل خ ل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 611–612
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “خ ل خ ل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 294
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خ ل خ ل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 354