xakle

Cypriot Arabic

Root
x-k-l
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic حَقْل (ḥaql).

Noun

xakle f (plural xkali)

1. cultivated field

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 206