حل - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From the root ح ل ل (ḥ-l-l). Compare Hebrew חל.

The meaning of “sesame oil” may derive via a chain of calques from Akkadian 𒉌𒄑 (ellum), which is also homographic to 𒉌𒄑 (šamnum, “oil”), that, to build a bridge, might suggest that Aramaic חָלָא / ܚܠܐ (ḥallā) also had this meaning but has consistently been misread as more common “vinegar”, the etymon of Arabic خَلّ (ḵall, “vinegar”), if not other homographs, due to complete merger of ḥ and ḫ more likely than in Arabic itself where it also happens due to taṣḥīf.

حَلَّ • (ḥalla) I (non-past يَحُلُّ (yaḥullu), verbal noun حَلّ (ḥall))

1. (transitive) to unfasten; to untie; to unknot; to unravel; to disentangle; to loosen

   Synonym: فَكَّ (fakka, “to unfasten; to unfix; to dislodge; to unscrew; to disjoint; to disintegrate; to disassemble; to unbuild; to deconstruct”)

   Antonyms: عَقَدَ (ʕaqada, “to tie; to knot”), رَبَطَ (rabaṭa, “to tie; to link”), سَلْسَلَ (salsala, “to chain; to serialize”), رَكَّبَ (rakkaba, “to assemble; to put together; to build up; to construct”), لَصَقَ (laṣaqa, “to paste; to glue”), صَمَّغَ (ṣammaḡa, “to glue”)

   1. (transitive) to solve, to find an answer to or a solution for (something, such as a problem); to untangle; to crack
2. (transitive) to liquefy; to dissolve

   Synonyms: أَذَابَ (ʔaḏāba, “to dissolve; to melt; to thaw”), سَيَّحَ (sayyaḥa, “to melt”)

   Coordinate term: بَخَّرَ (baḵḵara, “to vaporize”)

   Antonyms: صَلَّبَ (ṣallaba, “to harden; to solidify”), جَمَّدَ (jammada, “to solidify; to refrigerate; to freeze”), ثَلَّجَ (ṯallaja, “to refrigerate; to ice, to glaciate; to freeze”)

   1. (transitive) to turn into a solution
3. (transitive) to invalidate, to deprive of effective legal or otherwise binding power; to dissolve

   وعلى الرغم من أن القرآن يُؤكد كل النبوءات السابقة، إلا أنه يحل محلها، ويميز اللغة العربية كلغة لهذا الإلغاء.

   Although the Qur’an confirms all the previous prophecies, it invalidates them, and prefers Arabic as the language of this cancellation.

   1. (transitive) to breach (a contract, an agreement, an oath, and the like); to break

      Synonym: نَقَضَ (naqaḍa, “to break; to breach”)

4. to settle; to approach

   • 713AH/1313 CE, al baskari, darul habib:

     فَلَأَنْتَ أَنْتَ إِذَاْ حَلَلْتَ بــ: طَيْبَةٍ

     For when you, approach goodness(طيبة) (one of the names of Madinah)

• Maltese: ħall

حَلَّ • (ḥalla) I (non-past يَحِلُّ (yaḥillu) or يَحُلُّ (yaḥullu), verbal noun حُلُول (ḥulūl))

1. (intransitive) to dismount; to stop, to halt
2. (intransitive or transitive) to stay, to settle [with بِ (bi) or فِي (fī) or accusative ‘in a place’; or with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘with someone’]
3. (intransitive) to visit [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘someone’]
4. (transitive) to live in, to reside in (a place)

   Synonyms: بَقِيَ (baqiya), أَقَامَ (ʔaqāma), قَرَّ (qarra), مَكَثَ (makaṯa), سَكَنَ (sakana, “to inhabit, to settle”), وَطَنَ (waṭana), عَاشَ (ʕāša), عَمَرَ (ʕamara, “to settle; to colonize”)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 13:31:

     وَلَا يَزَالُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا تُصِيبُهُم بِمَا صَنَعُوا قَارِعَةٌ أَوْ تَحُلُّ قَرِيبًا مِّن دَارِهِمْ حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِيَ وَعْدُ اللَّهِ

     walā yazālu llaḏīna kafarū tuṣībuhum bimā ṣanaʕū qāriʕatun ʔaw taḥullu qarīban min dārihim ḥattā yaʔtiya waʕdu l-lahi

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5. (transitive) to occupy, to take (someone's place)

   • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 83:

     كان في أحد الأكياس تشكيلة من البسكويت القديم الذي اندثر من بقالات صنعاء وغيرها من المدن. هذه الأنواع من البسكويت كانت متوفرة عندما كنت صغيراً وعمري على ما أذكر 4–7 سنوات، ثمّ اختفت بالتدريج، وحلّت محلّها أصناف أخرى.

     In one of the bags there was a pack of ancient biscuits the kind of which disappeared from most grocers of Ṣanʻāʼ and other cities. This type of biscuit was widespread when I small and my age, as I remember, 4–7, then it left sight gradually, and other kinds took its place.

   • إن تفسيرنا هو أن اللغة الإنجليزية سوف تحل محل الفرنسية في المغرب في العقود القادمة لأنها تنتشر بسرعة في التعليم والإعلام والأعمال. وبصرف النظر عن هذا، فإن عددا كبيرا من المغاربة لديهم موقف سلبي تجاه الفرنسية، وهو عامل آخر يدفع عملية الاستبدال.

     Our interpretation is that English will take the place of (or replace) French in Morocco in the coming decades because it is rapidly spreading in education, media and business. Apart from this, a large number of Moroccans have a negative attitude towards French, which is another factor driving the replacement process.

6. to descend, to go down
7. to occur, to happen [with بِ (bi) ‘to someone’]

   Synonyms: حَصَلَ (ḥaṣala, “to come about; to happen”), حَدَثَ (ḥadaṯa, “to happen; to eventuate”), جَرَى (jarā, “to occur”)

8. to befall [with بِ (bi) or عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘someone’] (of punishment, suffering, hatred or something else negative)

   Synonyms: نَزَلَ (nazala, “to befall”), وَقَعَ (waqaʕa, “to befall”)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 20:81:

     كُلُوا مِنْ طَيِّبَاتِ مَا رَزَقْنَاكُمْ وَلَا تَطْغَوْا فِيهِ فَيَحِلَّ عَلَيْكُمْ غَضَبِي وَمَنْ يَحْلِلْ عَلَيْهِ غَضَبِي فَقَدْ هَوَىٰ

     kulū min ṭayyibāti mā razaqnākum walā taṭḡaw fīhi fayaḥilla ʕalaykum ḡaḍabī waman yaḥlil ʕalayhi ḡaḍabī faqad hawā

     Eat of the good things wherewith We have provided you, and transgress not in respect thereof lest My wrath come upon you: and he on whom My wrath cometh, he is lost indeed.

9. to overwhelm [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘someone’] (of sleep)
10. to arrive, to begin (of a season or time)
11. to become incarnate [with فِي (fī) ‘in someone’] (of God)

حَلَّ • (ḥalla) I (non-past يَحِلُّ (yaḥillu), verbal noun حَلَال (ḥalāl) or حِلّ (ḥill))

1. (intransitive) to be or become permissible or lawful

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:229:

     وَلَا يَحِلُّ لَكُمْ أَنْ تَأْخُذُوا مِمَّا آتَيْتُمُوهُنَّ شَيْئًا

     walā yaḥillu lakum ʔan taʔḵuḏū mimmā ʔātaytumūhunna šayʔan

     And it is not permissible for you that ye take aught of what ye have given them.

حَلّ • (ḥall) m (plural حُلُول (ḥulūl))

1. verbal noun of حَلَّ (ḥalla) (form I)
2. (countable) a solution

   لِكُلِّ مُشْكِلَةٍ أَلْفُ حَلٍّ. ― likulli muškilatin ʔalfu ḥallin. ― For every problem, there are a thousand solutions.

3. (obsolete) sesame, or sesame oil

   Synonyms: زَيْت سِمْسِم (zayt simsim), سَلِيط (salīṭ), شِيرَج (šīraj), سِمْسِم (simsim), جُلْجُلَان (juljulān)

   • 850–861, علي بن سهل ربن الطبري [ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī], edited by Oliver Kahl, ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī’s Health Regimen or “Book of the Pearl” كتاب اللؤلؤة (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 115), Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →ISBN, § 252, page 153:

     وتعجن بدهن اللوز أو الحل، الشربة منه حبة إلى دانقين بسمن بقر أو بدهن الحل.

     And knead with almond oil or sesame oil, the dose of it is one pill to two dāniq, with butter or with sesame oil.

   • a. 1050, مروان بن جناح [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ] [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 232 (fol. 22v,5–8), page 421:

     دهن الحلّ هو عند الرازي غير دهن السمسم وهو عند الإسرائيلي وفي كتاب مسيح دهن الحلّ أي الشيرج الذي لم يقشر سمسمه.

     Duhn al-ḥall is according to Rhazes not sesame oil but according to al-Isrāʾīlīy and Masīh duhn al-ḥall or šīraj is that where the sesame has not been peeled.

• Moroccan Arabic: حل (ḥall)
• → Azerbaijani: həll
• → Armenian: հալ (hal)
• → Ottoman Turkish: حل (hal), հալլ (hall) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: hal
  • → Albanian: hall
  • → Armenian: խալլ (xall)

حُلْ • (ḥul) (form I) /ħul/

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of حَالَ (ḥāla)

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “حل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 412a–413a
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “حل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 619a–621a
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, pages 291b–292b

• IPA^(key): /ħalː/

From Arabic حَلّ (ḥall).

حل • (ḥall) m (plural حلول (ḥulūl))

1. solution

From Arabic حَلَّ (ḥalla).

حل • (ḥall) I (non-past يحل (yḥull))

1. to loosen

   Synonym: فك (fakk)

2. to open

   Synonym: فتح (ftaḥ)

3. to solve

• հալլ (hall) — Armeno-Turkish

Borrowed from Arabic حَلّ (ḥall).

حل • (hal)

1. untangling, unravelling, unfolding, unknotting
2. solution, explanation, remedy
3. melting, fusion
4. (chemistry) analysis, dialysis

• Turkish: hal
• → Albanian: hall
• → Armenian: խալլ (xall)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hal⁵”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1845a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 515ab
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 798f.

Borrowed from Arabic حَلّ (ḥall).

حل • (hal)

1. solving; resolution

   حل مسئله ― hal-e mas'ale ― problem solving

   حل منازعه ― hal-e monâza'e ― conflict resolution

2. (chemistry) analysis, dialysis

From Arabic حَلَّ (ḥalla).

• IPA^(key): /ħall/, [ħal]

حلّ • (ḥall) I (present بحلّ (biḥill))

1. to solve, to resolve
2. to undo, to untie, to unfold, to untether

Borrowed from Arabic حَلّ (ḥall).

حل • (hal) m (Hindi spelling हल)

1. solution, resolution

   Synonym: سَمادھان (samādhān)

• حل کرنا (hal karnā, “to solve”)