ሐቅል

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ḥaḳl-. Cognate with Classical Syriac ܚܰܩܠܳܐ, Arabic حَقْلٌ (ḥaqlun), Aramaic חַקְלָא, Hebrew הֵלֶק.

Noun

ሐቅል • (ḥäḳl) (plural አሕቁል (ʾäḥḳul) or አሕቃል (ʾäḥḳal) or አሕቅልት (ʾäḥḳəlt) or አሕቃላት (ʾäḥḳalat))

1. field
   • Joshua 21:12

     ወአሕቅልተ ፡ ሀገር ፡ ወአዕጻዳቲሃ ፡ ወሀቦሙ ፡ ኢየሱስ ፡ ለደቂቀ ፡ ካሌብ ፡ ወልደ ፡ ዬፎኔ ፡ ደወሎሙ ።

     wäʾäḥḳəltä hägär wäʾäʿṣadatiha wähäbomu ʾiyäsus lädäḳiḳä kaleb wäldä yefone däwälomu .

     But the fields and villages around the city they had given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

2. desert, wilderness

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ሐቅል”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 96