شتلة

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic שִתלָא‎ (šiṯlā) / ܫܷܬܠܴܐ‎ (šeṯlā), ܫܷܬܷܠܬܴܐ‎ (šeṯelṯā), ܫܬܷܠܬܴܐ‎ (šəṯelṯā, “plant offshoot”), from Akkadian [script needed] (šitlum).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃat.la/

Noun

شَتْلَة • (šatla) f (plural شَتَلات‎ (šatalāt) or شُتُول‎ (šutūl) or شَتَائِل‎ (šatāʔil) or شَتْل‎ (šatl))

  1. plantling, seedling, sapling

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Maltese: xitla

Further reading

  • Brockelmann, Carl (1928) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 812a: Akkadian → Aramaic → Arabic
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1905), “Zu lignā, ləgettā (vergl. ZDPV XXVIII S. 32)”, in Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins‎ (in German), volume 28, issue 4, page 222: Akkadian → Aramaic
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1903), “Anzeigen: Die Aramaismen im Alten Testament untersucht von E. Kautzsch. 1. Lexikalischer Teil. Hallisches Osterprogramm. Halle 1902. (V und 111 S. Octav.)”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 57, page 417: already present in Proto-Canaanite
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “شتلة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 531b
  • Classical Arabic dictionaries don’t even list this word
  • “štl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
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