ق ح ل

Arabic

Etymology

Compare ق ح ط (q-ḥ-ṭ).

Root

ق ح ل • (q-ḥ-l)

1. related to drought, aridity

Derived terms

• Form I: قَحَلَ (qaḥala, “to be arid, to wither”)
  • Verbal noun: قَحْل (qaḥl), قُحُول (quḥūl)
  • Active participle: قَاحِل (qāḥil)
• Form I: قَحِلَ (qaḥila, “to be arid, to wither”)
  • Verbal noun: قَحَل (qaḥal)
  • Active participle: قَاحِل (qāḥil)
• Form III: قَاحَلَ (qāḥala, “to attend zealously to”)
  • Verbal noun: مُقَاحَلَة (muqāḥala), قِحَال (qiḥāl)
  • Active participle: مُقَاحِل (muqāḥil)
  • Passive participle: مُقَاحَل (muqāḥal)
• Form IV: أَقْحَلَ (ʔaqḥala, “to cause to wither, to make dry”)
  • Verbal noun: إِقْحَال (ʔiqḥāl)
  • Active participle: مُقْحِل (muqḥil)
  • Passive participle: مُقْحَل (muqḥal)
• Form V: تَقَحَّلَ (taqaḥḥala, “to wither, to shrivel”)
  • Verbal noun: تَقَحُّل (taqaḥḥul)
  • Active participle: مُتَقَحِّل (mutaqaḥḥil)

• قَحِل (qaḥil, “arid, dry”)
• قُحُولَة (quḥūla, “dryness, aridity”)
• إِنْقَحْل (ʔinqaḥl, “having shriveling skin”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ق ح ل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 310
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ق ح ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 402
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ق ح ل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 821
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ق ح ل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1002