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ḥ l b

30 lemmas · 10 languages
soundAll three consonants are regular📜 Gen.45.18
Themes:milk· حَلِيب · חָלָב·14aleppo·7dairy·5capital·3city· مَدِينَة · עִיר·3
POS shape:noun·19verb·5name·5adj·1

This root is attested across 10 Semitic languages in our index. Each section below shows representative lemmas; attested means a Wiktionary editor explicitly tagged the root, inferredmeans we derived it mechanically from the word's consonantal skeleton.

Etymology treehow this root diverged from Proto-Semitic through the family

*ḥ-l-bProto-Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Ugaritic𐎈𐎍𐎁𐎈 𐎍 𐎁milk
Canaanite
Hebrewחָלָבח ל בmilk (a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young)
Phoenician𐤇𐤋𐤁𐤇 𐤋 𐤁milk
Punic𐤇𐤋𐤁𐤇 𐤋 𐤁milk
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicחלבח ל בto milk
Syriacܚܠܒܐܚ ܠ ܒmilk
Assyrian NAܚܵܠܹܒ݂ܚ ܠ ܒto milk
Arabic
Arabicحَلَبح ل بAleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
South Semitic
Old South Arabian
OSA𐩢𐩡𐩨𐩢 𐩡 𐩨milk
Ethio-Semitic
Ge'ezሐሊብሐ ለ በmilk

Branch structure: Huehnergard (2005), Rubin (2010). The reconstructed Proto-Semitic form is computed on the fly from the cognate set's majority reflex pattern.

Ugaritic

irregular reflexug · 1 lemma
  • ḥlbnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    milk
    From Proto-Semitic *ḥalīb-. Compare Hebrew חָלָב (ḥālāḇ), Arabic حَلِيب (ḥalīb).

Phoenician

irregular reflexphn · 1 lemma

Punic

irregular reflexpun · 1 lemma

Old South Arabian

irregular reflexosa · 1 lemma

Imperial Aramaic

arc · 2 lemmas
  • verbinferred𐡀 tg. Jon. Josh 5:6Wiktionary ↗
    to milk
    From Proto-Semitic *ḥalīb-.
  • ħalbā'nouninferred𐡀 tg. Jon. Judg 5:25Wiktionary ↗
    milk
    From Proto-Semitic *ḥalīb-.

Classical Syriac

syc · 1 lemma
  • ḥaləḇānouninferredWiktionary ↗
    milk
    From Proto-Semitic *ḥalīb-.

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

aii · 5 lemmas
  • ḥālēḇverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to milk
    Denominal verb derived from ܚܲܠܒ݂ܵܐ (ḥalḇā, “milk”); compare Hebrew חָלַב (khaláv) and Arabic حَلَبَ (ḥalaba).
    1 derivation
  • ḥalḇānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    milk
    Inherited from Aramaic חַלְבָּא (ḥalbā), from Proto-Semitic *ḥalīb-; compare Arabic حَلِيب (ḥalīb), Hebrew חָלָב (khaláv) and Akkadian 𒄭𒅋𒁍 (ḫilpu).
  • ḥalḇānāyāadjattestedWiktionary ↗
    dairy
    From ܚܲܠܒ݂ܵܐ (ḥalḇā, “milk”) + -ܵܢܵܝܵܐ (-ānāyā, the intensive attributive adjective ending).
  • maḥlaḇtānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    dairy, dairy farm
    Noun of place from the verb ܚܵܠܹܒ݂ (ḥālēḇ, “to milk”); compare Hebrew מַחְלָבָה (makhlavá).
  • ḥlaḇnameinferredWiktionary ↗
    Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo Governorate, Syria)
    Borrowed from Arabic حَلَب (ḥalab).

Hebrew

he · 8 lemmas
  • khalávnounattested📜 Gen.45.18Wiktionary ↗
    milk (a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young)
    Cognate with Aramaic חַלְבָּא and sharing its root with Arabic حَلِيب (ḥalīb).
  • khalávverbattested📜 Gen.45.18Wiktionary ↗
    to milk
    Cognate with Aramaic חַלְבָּא and sharing its root with Arabic حَلِيب (ḥalīb).
  • khélevnounattested📜 Gen.45.18Wiktionary ↗
    chelev (certain animal fats that the Torah prohibits Jews and Israelites from eating)
  • makhlavánounattestedWiktionary ↗
    A dairy: a place where milk is processed to produce dairy products.
    From the root ח־ל־ב (ḥ-l-b), from חָלָב (khaláv, “milk”).
  • khalabnameinferred📜 Gen.45.18Wiktionary ↗
    alternative form of חאלב
  • khálabnameinferredWiktionary ↗
    Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo Governorate, Syria)
    From Arabic حَلَبُ (ḥalabu).
  • khálvanouninferred📜 Lev.4.31Wiktionary ↗
    misspelling of חַלְוָה
  • khilbánouninferred📜 Lev.4.31Wiktionary ↗
    defective spelling of חילבה

Arabic

ar · 8 lemmas
  • ḥalabnameattestedWiktionary ↗
    Aleppo (the capital city of Aleppo governorate, Syria)
    Perhaps from the root ح ل ب (ḥ l b), coming from the ancient tradition that Abraham gave milk to travelers as they moved throughout the region.
    1 derivation
  • ḥalabaverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to milk
    Cognate with Hebrew חלב (khaláv).
  • ḥalbnounattestedWiktionary ↗
    verbal noun of حَلَبَ (ḥalaba) (form I)
    Cognate with Hebrew חלב (khaláv).
  • ḥālibnounattestedWiktionary ↗
    ureter
  • ḥilābnounattestedWiktionary ↗
    verbal noun of حَلَبَ (ḥalaba) (form I)
  • inḥalabaverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to drool
  • ḥulbūbnounattestedWiktionary ↗
    mercury (Mercurialis gen. et spp.)
    Another one of the derivations from the root ح ل ب (ḥ l b) related to milk as حُلْبَة (ḥulba), حُلَّب (ḥullab) and لَبْلَاب (lablāb).
  • ḥullabnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    Flueggea tinctoria; Euphorbia aegyptiaca and Euphorbia granulata
    Related to the milk-giving qualities of these plants, compare the Spanish name of the spurge lechetrezna; but possibly from Classical Syriac, ܚܰܠܒ݂ܳܐ (ḥalbā, “milk”), construct state ܚܠܷܒ (ḥăleḇ), also meaning “spurge” in compounds.

Ge'ez

gez · 2 lemmas

Related rootsshare 2 of 3 consonants with ḥ-l-b

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