خلخال

Arabic

Root
خ ل خ ل (ḵ-l-ḵ-l)

خَلْخَال

Alternative forms

• خَلْخَل (ḵalḵal)

Noun

خَلْخَال • (ḵalḵāl) m (plural خَلَاخِيل (ḵalāḵīl))

1. anklet

   Antonyms: مِعْضَد (miʕḍad), دُمْلُوج (dumlūj)

Declension

Declension of noun خَلْخَال (ḵalḵāl)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خَلْخَال ḵalḵāl	الْخَلْخَال al-ḵalḵāl	خَلْخَال ḵalḵāl
Nominative	خَلْخَالٌ ḵalḵālun	الْخَلْخَالُ al-ḵalḵālu	خَلْخَالُ ḵalḵālu
Accusative	خَلْخَالًا ḵalḵālan	الْخَلْخَالَ al-ḵalḵāla	خَلْخَالَ ḵalḵāla
Genitive	خَلْخَالٍ ḵalḵālin	الْخَلْخَالِ al-ḵalḵāli	خَلْخَالِ ḵalḵāli
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خَلْخَالَيْن ḵalḵālayn	الْخَلْخَالَيْن al-ḵalḵālayn	خَلْخَالَيْ ḵalḵālay
Nominative	خَلْخَالَانِ ḵalḵālāni	الْخَلْخَالَانِ al-ḵalḵālāni	خَلْخَالَا ḵalḵālā
Accusative	خَلْخَالَيْنِ ḵalḵālayni	الْخَلْخَالَيْنِ al-ḵalḵālayni	خَلْخَالَيْ ḵalḵālay
Genitive	خَلْخَالَيْنِ ḵalḵālayni	الْخَلْخَالَيْنِ al-ḵalḵālayni	خَلْخَالَيْ ḵalḵālay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خَلَاخِيل ḵalāḵīl	الْخَلَاخِيل al-ḵalāḵīl	خَلَاخِيل ḵalāḵīl
Nominative	خَلَاخِيلُ ḵalāḵīlu	الْخَلَاخِيلُ al-ḵalāḵīlu	خَلَاخِيلُ ḵalāḵīlu
Accusative	خَلَاخِيلَ ḵalāḵīla	الْخَلَاخِيلَ al-ḵalāḵīla	خَلَاخِيلَ ḵalāḵīla
Genitive	خَلَاخِيلَ ḵalāḵīla	الْخَلَاخِيلِ al-ḵalāḵīli	خَلَاخِيلِ ḵalāḵīli

Descendants

• → Amharic: ኸልኸል (xälxäl)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: xirxal

  → Central Kurdish: خرخاڵ (xirxall)

• → Ottoman Turkish: خلخال (halhâl)
  • Turkish: halhal
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: халхал, халхала

    Latin script: halhal, halhala

• → Persian: خلخال (xalxâl)
• → Spanish: carcax

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic خَلْخَال (ḵalḵāl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xal.xaːl/

Noun

خلخال • (ḵalḵāl) m (plural خلاخل (ḵlāḵil))

1. anklet

   Coordinate term: دمليج (damlīj)

Ottoman Turkish

خلخال

Etymology

From Arabic خَلْخَال (ḵalḵāl, “anklet”).

Noun

خلخال • (halhal) (plural خلاخیل (halahil))

1. anklet, bangle, a piece of jewelry worn around the ankle

Descendants

• Turkish: halhal
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: халхал, халхала

  Latin script: halhal, halhala

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “halhal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1849
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خلخال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 548
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Compes”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 219
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خلخال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1929
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “halhal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خلخال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 860