مشفل

Arabic

مِشْفَل

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic משפל (mšp̄l).

Noun

مِشْفَل • (mišfal) m (plural مَشَافِل (mašāfil))

1. (obsolete, rare) dung-basket, back-basket (a container to carry the manure to the fields or vineyards)
   • a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎^[1], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, page 288, line 3:

References

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 137
• Michael Jan de Goeje, editor (1879), Indices, glossarium et addenda et emendanda ad part. I–III (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 7)‎^[2] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1879, page 275, line 3
• “špl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–