Arabic edit

Root
غ م ل (ḡ-m-l)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

غُمْلُول (ḡumlūlm

  1. (obsolete) abundant valley, a dale of luxurious herbage; a hill; a place dense of trees or clouds or shadow
  2. prickly thrift (Acantholimon genus and species)
  3. (obsolete) hoary cress, whitetop (Lepidium draba and potentially related species)[1]
    Synonym: قُنَابَرَى (qunābarā)

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Often incorrectly added in references as التُمْلُول (at-tumlūl) and/or قُمْلُول (qumlūl) and also ثُمْلُول (ṯumlūl), نُمْلُول (numlūl). On the basis of غُمْلُول (ḡumlūl) and قُمْلُول (qumlūl) declared borrowed from an unknown Persian گم لول (gom lul, forsaken and shameless) in Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1064.