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ܡܚܠܬܐ • (maḥḥalṯā, maḥḥelṯā) f (plural ܡܚܠܬܐ (maḥḥəlāṯā))
- sieve
- “mḥlh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- “mḥwlh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- “mnḥl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- “mhwlh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic מְהוּלְתָּא (məhūltā, “sieve”), CAL puts to מהל (“to dilute”) as noted by Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden[1] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 137–138 who actually contends h having developed from ḥ against Fleischer, who compared it and Mishnaic Hebrew מוֹהַל (mōhal, “sieve”) with Arabic مُهْل (muhl, “molten material such as tar, metal, oil etc.”) and Greek μούχλα (moúchla, “mould”) and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic מוּגְלָא and Classical Syriac ܡܘܓܠܐ (mūḡlā, “pus”), to which one later could have added Middle Armenian մգլահոտ (mglahot, “smelling of mold”).
- Brockelmann, Carl (1928) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 423a
- Payne Margoliouth, Jessie (1927) Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, S.T.P., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 209a
- Payne Smith, Robert (1901) Thesaurus Syriacus (in Latin), volume 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, column 2337
