حالك

Arabic

Etymology

Derived from the active participle of حلك‎ (ḥalaka, ḥalika, “to become excessively dark”). From the root ح لك‎ (ḥ-l-k).

Adjective

حَالِك • (ḥālik) (feminine حَالِكَة‎ (ḥālika), masculine plural حَالِكُونَ‎ (ḥālikūna), feminine plural حَالِكَات‎ (ḥālikāt))

  1. (literary) very dark or black, pitch-black, deep black, murky, gloomy
    ‏لَيْل حَالِك‎ ― layl ḥālik ― A very dark night
    • 13th century, Saʿdī aš-Šīrāzī, دیوان سعدی‎ [Dīwān of Saʿdī]‎:
      ‏وَبَعْضُ قُلُوبِ النَّاسِ أَحْلَكُ مِنْ حِبْرٍ‎
      wabaʕḍu qulūbi n-nāsi ʔaḥlaku min ḥibri
      And some of the hearts of the people are darker than ink

Declension

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “حلك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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