حل

From the root ح ل ل‎ (ḥ-l-l). Compare Hebrew חל‎.

The meaning of “sesame oil” may derive via a chain of calques from Akkadian 𒉌𒄑 (ellum), which is also homographic to 𒉌𒄑 (šamnum, “oil”), that, to build a bridge, might suggest that Aramaic חָלָא‎ / ܚܠܐ‎ (ḥallā) also had this meaning but has consistently been misread as more common “vinegar”, the etymon of Arabic خَلّ‎ (ḵall, “vinegar”), if not other homographs, due to complete merger of ḥ and ḫ more likely than in Arabic itself where it also happens due to taṣḥīf.

حَلَّ • (ḥalla) I, non-past يَحُلُّ‎‎ (yaḥullu)

1. (transitive) to unfasten; to untie; to unknot; to unravel; to disentangle; to loosen

   Synonym: فَكَّ‎ (fakka, “to unfasten; to unfix; to dislodge; to unscrew; to disjoint; to disintegrate; to disassemble; to unbuild; to deconstruct”)

   Antonyms: عَقَدَ‎ (ʕaqada, “to tie; to knot”), رَبَطَ‎ (rabaṭa, “to tie; to link”), سَلْسَلَ‎ (salsala, “to chain; to serialize”), رَكَّبَ‎ (rakkaba, “to assemble; to put together; to build up; to construct”), لَصَقَ‎ (laṣaqa, “to paste; to glue”), صَمَّغَ‎ (ṣammaḡa, “to glue”)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 20:27:

     ‏وَاحْلُلْ عُقْدَةً مِّن لِّسَانِي‎

     wāḥlul ʕuqdatan mmin llisānī

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   1. (transitive) to find an answer to or a solution for (something, such as a problem); to untangle; to crack; to solve
2. (transitive) to liquefy; to dissolve

   Synonyms: أَذَابَ‎ (ʔaḏāba, “to dissolve; to melt; to thaw”), سَيَّحَ‎ (sayyaḥa, “to melt”)

   Coordinate term: بَخَّرَ‎ (baḵḵara, “to vaporize”)

   Antonyms: صَلَّبَ‎ (ṣallaba, “to harden; to solidify”), جَمَّدَ‎ (jammada, “to solidify; to refrigerate; to freeze”), ثَلَّجَ‎ (ṯallaja, “to refrigerate; to ice, to glaciate; to freeze”)

   1. (transitive) to turn into a solution
3. (transitive) to deprive of effective legal or otherwise binding power, to invalidate; to dissolve
   1. (transitive) to breach (a contract, an agreement, an oath, and the like); to break

      Synonym: نَقَضَ‎ (naqaḍa, “to break; to breach”)

• Maltese: ħall

حَلَّ • (ḥalla) I, non-past يَحُلُّ‎ or يَحِلُّ‎‎ (yaḥullu or yaḥillu)

1. (intransitive) to live somewhere; to abode; to stay; to remain; to reside

   Synonyms: بَقِيَ‎ (baqiya), أَقَامَ‎ (ʔaqāma), قَرَّ‎ (qarra), مَكَثَ‎ (makaṯa), سَكَنَ‎ (sakana), وَطَنَ‎ (waṭana), عَاشَ‎ (ʕāša)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 13:31:

     ‏وَلَا يَزَالُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا تُصِيبُهُم بِمَا صَنَعُوا قَارِعَةٌ أَوْ تَحُلُّ قَرِيبًا مِّن دَارِهِمْ حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِيَ وَعْدُ اللَّهِ‎

     walā yazālu allaḏīna kafarū tuṣībuhum bimā ṣanaʕū qāriʕatun ʔaw taḥullu qarīban mmin dārihim ḥattā yaʔtiya waʕdu l-lahi

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   1. (transitive) to occupy (a place)

      Synonyms: سَكَنَ‎ (sakana, “to people; to inhabit; to settle”), عَمَرَ‎ (ʕamara, “to settle; to colonize”)

حَلَّ • (ḥalla) I, non-past يَحِلُّ‎‎ (yaḥillu)

1. (intransitive) to take place, to happen, to occur; to befall; to come around

   Synonyms: حَصَلَ‎ (ḥaṣala, “to come about; to happen”), نَزَلَ‎ (nazala, “to befall”), وَقَعَ‎ (waqaʕa, “to befall”), حَدَثَ‎ (ḥadaṯa, “to happen; to eventuate”), جَرَى‎ (jarā, “to occur”)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 20:81:

     ‏كُلُوا مِنْ طَيِّبَاتِ مَا رَزَقْنَاكُمْ وَلَا تَطْغَوْا فِيهِ فَيَحِلَّ عَلَيْكُمْ غَضَبِي وَمَنْ يَحْلِلْ عَلَيْهِ غَضَبِي فَقَدْ هَوَىٰ‎

     kulū min ṭayyibāti mā razaqnākum walā taṭḡaw fīhi fayaḥilla ʕalaykum ḡaḍabī waman yaḥlil ʕalayhi ḡaḍabī faqad hawā

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حَلَّ • (ḥalla) I, non-past يَحِلُّ‎‎ (yaḥillu)

1. (intransitive) to be or become permissible or lawful
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:229:

     ‏وَلَا يَحِلُّ لَكُمْ أَنْ تَأْخُذُوا مِمَّا آتَيْتُمُوهُنَّ شَيْئًا‎

     walā yaḥillu lakum ʔan taʔḵuḏū mimmā ʔātaytumūhunna šayʔan

     And it is not permissible for you that ye take aught of what ye have given them.

حَلّ • (ḥall) m (plural حُلُول‎ (ḥulūl))

1. verbal noun of حَلَّ (ḥalla) (form I)
2. (countable) a solution

   ‏لِكُلِّ مُشْكِلَةٍ أَلْفُ حَلٍّ.‎‎ ― likulli muškilatin ʔalfu ḥallin. ― For every problem, there are a thousand solutions.

3. (obsolete) sesame, or sesame oil
   • 850–861, علي بن سهل ربن الطبري [ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī], Oliver Kahl, editor, ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī’s Health Regimen or “Book of the Pearl” كتاب اللؤلؤة (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 115), Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →ISBN, § 252, page 153:

     ‏وتعجن بدهن اللوز أو الحل، الشربة منه حبة إلى دانقين بسمن بقر أو بدهن الحل.‎‎

     And knead with almond oil or sesame oil, the dose of it is one pill to two dāniq, with butter or with sesame oil.

   • a. 1050, مروان بن جناح‎ [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, editors, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ] [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 232 (fol. 22v,5–8), page 421:

     ‏دهن الحلّ هو عند الرازي غير دهن السمسم وهو عند الإسرائيلي وفي كتاب مسيح دهن الحلّ أي الشيرج الذي لم يقشر سمسمه.‎‎

     Duhn al-ḥall is according to Rhazes not sesame oil but according to al-Isrāʾīlīy and Masīh duhn al-ḥall or šīraj is that where the sesame has not been peeled.

   Synonyms: زَيْت سِمْسِم‎ (zayt simsim), سَلِيط‎ (salīṭ), شِيرَج‎ (šīraj), سِمْسِم‎ (simsim), جُلْجُلَان‎ (juljulān)

• Moroccan Arabic: حل‎ (ḥall)
• → Azerbaijani: həll
• → Armenian: հալ (hal)

حُلْ • (ḥul) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of حَالَ‎ (ḥāla)

• Freytag, Georg (1830), “حل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 412a–413a
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “حل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 619a–621a
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “حل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, pages 291b–292b

• IPA^(key): /ħalː/

From Arabic حَلّ‎ (ḥall).

حل • (ḥall) m (plural حلول‎ (ḥulūl))

1. solution

From Arabic حَلَّ‎ (ḥalla).

حل • (ḥall) (form I, non-past يحل‎ (yḥull))

1. to loosen

   Synonym: فك‎ (fakk)

2. to open

   Synonym: فتح‎ (ftaḥ)

3. to solve

From Arabic حَلَّ‎ (ḥalla).

• IPA^(key): /ħall/, [ħal]

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حلّ • (ḥall) (form I, present بحلّ‎ (biḥill))

1. to solve, to resolve
2. to undo, to untie, to unfold, to untether

Borrowed from Arabic حَلّ‎ (ḥall).

حل • (hal) m

1. solution, resolution

• حل کرنا‎ (hal karnā, “to solve”)