See also: شهله

Arabic edit

Root
ش ه ل (š-h-l)

Pronunciation 1 edit

Noun edit

شُهْلَة (šuhlaf (obsolete)

  1. The color of anything أَشْهَل (ʔašhal) or شَهْلَاء (šahlāʔ).
    • d. c. 1048, Abu al-Walid al-Himyari, Kitab al-badi fi wasf al-rabi , (quoting Ibn Faraj al-Jayyani):
      كأكؤس فضة فيها ‖ نفايا شهلة الخمر
    • d. 1209, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Al-Firasa :
      أفضل ألوان العين الشهلة لأنها لون متوسط بين السواد و بين الزرقة والخضرة
      • 1999 translation by James Nathan Ford[1]
        The best color of eyes is the brownish/tawny color, since it is an intermediary color between black (on one hand) and blue and green (on the other).
Declension edit

Pronunciation 2 edit

Adjective edit

شَهْلَة (šahlaf

  1. (of a woman) middle-aged, intelligent; old[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Ford, J. N. (1999) ““Ninety-Nine by the Evil Eye and One from Natural Causes”: KTU2 1.96 in its Near Eastern Context”, in Ugarit-Forschungen, volume 30: 1998, Ugarit-Verlag, page 242, note 136
  2. ^ Lane, Edward William (1863) “شهلة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[1], London: Williams & Norgate