هيل

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ه ي ل (h-y-l) in the sense of "pouring" and "pile", as the Arab custom is to place cardamom pods in coffee, pouring it through the pods that pile up at the spout of a coffee pot.

Noun

هَيْل (hayl) m

  1. verbal noun of هَالَ (hāla) (form I)
  2. piled sand
Declension

Verb

هَيَّلَ (hayyala) II, non-past يُهَيِّلُ‎ (yuhayyilu)

  1. (transitive) to pile, to dump
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From early Persian هیل (hil), ultimately from Sanskrit एला (elā)

Alternative forms

Noun

هَيْل (hayl) m

  1. cardamom
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837), هيل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 425
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), هيل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1368–1369

Hijazi Arabic

هيل

Etymology

From Arabic هَيْل (hayl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈheːl/

Noun

هيل • (hēl) m pl

(singular هيلة ‎(hēla))
  1. cardamom
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