ك ه ل

Arabic

Etymology

A more general meaning is found in Sabaean 𐩫𐩠𐩡 (khl, “to be successful”), 𐩫𐩠𐩡𐩩 (khlt, “success”), whereas perhaps generalized from this meaning the (widely developed, also in other Ethiopian Semitic languages) root of Ge'ez ክህለ (kəhlä, “to be able”) and Hebrew כְּהַל (kəḥal, “to able”) and Aramaic. The similarity to Persian (kohna, “old”) is thus a coincidence.

Root

ك ه ل • (k-h-l)

related to attaining (in particular age or height)

Derived terms

Form I: كَهَلَ (kahala, “to become adult or elderly”)
- Verbal noun: كُهُول (kuhūl)
- Active participle: كَاهِل (kāhil)
- Passive participle: مَكْهُول (makhūl)
Form VIII: اِكْتَهَلَ (iktahala, “to become adult or elderly”)
- Verbal noun: اِكْتِهَال (iktihāl)
- Active participle: مُكْتَهِل (muktahil)

كُهُولَة (kuhūla, “maturity or elderly age”)
كَهْل (kahl, “elder, elderly”)
كِهَوْل (kihawl), كَهُول (kahūl, “spider”)
كُهْلُول (kuhlūl, “laughing, noble”)
كَاهِل (kāhil, “shoulder girdle”)

References

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 1125
Freytag, Georg (1837) “ك ه ل”, 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 67b
Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ك ه 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^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 939b–940b
Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ك ه ل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1125a
“khl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
“ykl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
“yklw”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–