كحل

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See also: کچل and ك ح ل

Arabic

Etymology

The noun كُحْل (kuḥl) is borrowed from Aramaic כוחלא /‎ ܟܘܚܠܐ (kuḥlā), from Akkadian 𒉌𒌓𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (/⁠guḫlu⁠/, antimony, stibium). Everything else of this root ك ح ل (k-ḥ-l) is denominal.

Verb

كَحَلَ (kaḥala) I, non-past يَكْحُلُ or يَكْحَلُ‎ (yakḥulu or yakḥalu)

  1. to rub with kohl (stibnite), to paint with kohl

Conjugation

Verb

كَحَّلَ (kaḥḥala) II, non-past يُكَحِّلُ‎ (yukaḥḥilu)

  1. to rub with kohl (stibnite), to paint with kohl

Conjugation

Noun

كُحْل (kuḥlm (plural أَكْحَال (ʔakḥāl))

  1. antimony
  2. kohl, stibnite (pulverized antimony)

Declension

Descendants

  • Ge'ez: ኵሕል (kʷəḥəl)
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: kil
    Central Kurdish: کِل (kil)
    Southern Kurdish: کِڵ (kill)
  • Persian: کحل (kohl)

Noun

كَحَل (kaḥalm

  1. black coloring of the edges of the eyelids

Declension

Adjective

كَحِل (kaḥil)

  1. darkened with kohl, dyed black (of the eyelids)

Declension

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Noun

كَحْل (kaḥlm

  1. verbal noun of كَحُلَ (kaḥula) (form I)
  2. verbal noun of كَحَلَ (kaḥala) (form I)

Declension

Further reading

  • Hille, K. A. (1851) “Ueber den Gebrauch und die Zusammensetzung der orientalischen Augenschminke (الكُحْل)”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[1] (in German), volume 5, pages 236–242
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[2] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 40
  • Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 61

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic أَكْحَل (ʔakḥal, black, very dark grey or blue, the colour of kohl)

Pronunciation

Adjective

كحل (kḥal) (feminine كحلة (kaḥla), common plural كوحل (kūḥel), masculine plural كحلين (kaḥlīn), feminine plural كحلات (kaḥlāt))

  1. black

See also

Colors in Moroccan Arabic · ألوان (ʔalwān) (layout · text)
     بيض (byaḍ)      رمادي (rmādi)      كحل (kḥal)
             حمر (ḥmar); قرمزي (qarmzi)              ليموني (līmūni, laymūni), لتشيني (litšīni); قهوي (qahwi)              صفر (ṣfar)
             ليمي (līmi)              خضر (ḵḍar)              نعناعي (naʕnāʕi)
             سماوي (smāwi)              لازوردي (lāzūrdi)              زرق (zraq)
             قوقي (qūqi), موڤ (mūv), بنفسجي (banafsaji)              أرجواني (ʔurjwāni)              وردي (wardi), فجلي (fajli)