خرطال

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Arabic

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خَرْطَال

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From the root ق ر ط ل (q-r-ṭ-l) meaning “a packsaddle”, “a basket or bag intended for provisions”, from Aramaic קרטל (qarṭāl, basket) (Christian spelling ܩܪܛܠܐ), which could be:

This must also be the name for “more than one of the highly succulent salt marsh chenopods that are considered poor grazing for camels” like Bienertia cycloptera and Suaeda aegyptiaca Mandaville records from various Najdi tribes as هَرْطَلَّس (harṭallas), هَطَلَّس (hatạllas), هَرْطَبِيل (harṭabīl), هُرْطُمَان (hurṭumān), طَرْطَيع (ṭartēʕ), هَطْلَس (haṭlas) but curiously describes as seemingly involving a quinqueliteral root.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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خَرْطَال (ḵarṭālm

  1. oat (Avena gen. et spp.)
    Synonym: شُوفَان (šūfān)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • خرطال on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ar
  • خرطال” in Almaany
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden[1] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 437–442
  • Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 209, 254–255
  • Rabin, Chaim (1963) “Hittite Words in Hebrew”, in Orientalia, volume 32, number 2, →DOI, pages 126–128
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “خرطال”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 320
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خرطال”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 330

Moroccan Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic خَرْطَال (ḵarṭāl).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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خرطال (ḵarṭālm

  1. oat