אגרטל

Hebrew

Etymology disputed. Many theories exist, the main ones being:

From Aramaic קרטל (qarṭāl, “basket”) (Syriac spelling ܩܪܛܠܐ) which itself could be from:
- Hittite 𒄑𒆳𒋫𒀀𒀠 (kurtal-, kartal-)
- Middle Persian glyw' (grīw, “a measure of grain, a peck”) + -dʾl (dār, “holder, keeper, container of”), or
- from Ancient Greek.
From Ancient Greek κάρταλλος (kártallos, “basket with a pointed bottom”), possibly being from either a native Indo-European source or from Aramaic קרטל (qarṭāl, “basket”).
the Jerusalem Talmud theorizes that the term is a compound of אָגַר (agar, “to accumulate, to store, to hoard”) +‎ טָלֶה (tale, “lamb”), this combination was because the Agartalim were allegedly used to collect the blood of lambs.

אֲגַרְטָל • (agartál) m (plural indefinite אֲגַרְטָלִים, singular construct אֲגַרְטַל־, plural construct אֲגַרְטְלֵי־)