See also: حلت, خلت, and ح ل ب

Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Perhaps from the root ح ل ب (ḥ l b), coming from the ancient tradition that Abraham gave milk to travelers as they moved throughout the region.

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حَلَب (ḥalabf

  1. Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
  2. Aleppo (a governorate of Syria).
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Etymology 2

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Root
ح ل ب (ḥ l b)
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Cognate with Hebrew חלב (khaláv).

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حَلَبَ (ḥalaba) I (non-past يَحْلُبُ (yaḥlubu) or يَحْلِبُ (yaḥlibu), verbal noun حَلْب (ḥalb) or حِلَاب (ḥilāb))

  1. to milk
  2. (rare) to yield milk
  3. (rare) to grant milking, to assign an animal to milk
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حَلِبَ (ḥaliba) I (non-past يَحْلَبُ (yaḥlabu), verbal noun حَلَب (ḥalab))

  1. to be black
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حَلْب (ḥalbm

  1. verbal noun of حَلَبَ (ḥalaba) (form I)
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حَلَب (ḥalabm

  1. verbal noun of حَلِبَ (ḥaliba) (form I)
  2. fresh milk
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Etymology 3

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Related to the milk-giving qualities of these plants, compare the Spanish name of the spurge lechetrezna; but possibly from Classical Syriac, ܚܰܠܒ݂ܳܐ (ḥalbā, milk), construct state ܚܠܷܒ (ḥăleḇ), also meaning “spurge” in compounds.

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Noun

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حُلَّب (ḥullabm

  1. Flueggea tinctoria; Euphorbia aegyptiaca and Euphorbia granulata
    Synonym: عَوْسَج صَغِير (ʕawsaj ṣaḡīr)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of كتاب عمدة الطبيب في معرفة النبات لكل لبيب to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ibn Wāfid to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ibn Baṣṣāl to this entry?)
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Etymology 4

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Noun

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حَلَب (ḥalabm (collective, singulative حَلَبِيّ m (ḥalabiyy))

  1. Ḥalab, one of the tribes of Doms in Egypt
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Azerbaijani

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Proper noun

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حلب

  1. Arabic spelling of Hələb

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

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حَلَب (Haleb, vulg. Halep)

  1. Aleppo (a city in Syria)
    Synonym: حلب الشهبا (Halebü'ş-Şehbâ, Aleppo the Grey)
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Pashto

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

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حَلَب (haláb)

  1. Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
  2. Aleppo (a governorate of Syria).

Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? halaḇ
Dari reading? halab
Iranian reading? halab
Tajik reading? halab

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

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Dari حلب
Iranian Persian
Tajik Ҳалаб

حلب (halab)

  1. Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 111:
      هست در دیده‌ام خیال لبت
      همچو شکر بشیشه‌های حلب
      hast dar dīda'am xayāl-i labat
      hamčū šikar ba-šīša-hā-yi halab
      Fantasies of your lips are in my eyes,
      Like sugar in Aleppo glass.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. Aleppo (a governorate of Syria).
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Etymology 2

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Back-formation from حلبی (halabi), from the city name of Aleppo.

Noun

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حلب (halab)

  1. tin (container)
  2. tin plate

Further reading

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  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “حلب”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Punjabi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

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حَلَب (ḥalabm (Gurmukhi spelling ਹਲਬ)

  1. Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
  2. Aleppo (a governorate of Syria).

Sindhi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

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حلب (transliteration needed?

  1. Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
  2. Aleppo (a governorate of Syria).

South Levantine Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

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حلب (ḥalabm

  1. Aleppo (a city in Syria)

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

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حَلَب (halabm (Hindi spelling हलब)

  1. Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
  2. Aleppo (a governorate of Syria).
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Further reading

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  • حلب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.