Arabic edit

Root
خ ل ب (ḵ-l-b)

Noun edit

مِخْلَب (miḵlabm (plural مَخَالِب (maḵālib))

  1. claw, nail, talon
  2. a reaping-hook that has no teeth, an undentate scythe for cutting grass
  3. butcher's hook
  4. a sort of surgical instrument
    • c. 1000, أبو القاسم [Abulcasis], edited by Johannes Channing, كتاب التصريف [De chirurgia], volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1778, page 240:

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Noun edit

مُخَلَّب (muḵallabm (plural مُخَلَّبَات (muḵallabāt))

  1. (chemistry) chelate

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