כלה

Deriving from the root כָּלַל (kalál, “to put a crown upon, to crown”), as a bride used to be crowned with a chaplet during the wedding ceremony.

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kalˈlɔː/ [kʰalˈlɔː]
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kalˈlɔ/ [kʰælˈlɔː]
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kaˈla/ (West), /kalˈla/ (East)
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kaˈlɔ/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kaˈla/

כַּלָּה • (kalá) f (plural indefinite כַּלּוֹת, singular construct כַּלַּת־, plural construct כַּלּוֹת־, masculine counterpart חָתָן) [pattern: קַטְלָה]

1. bride
   • Tanach, Song of Songs 4:11, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     נֹפֶת תִּטֹּפְנָה שִׂפְתוֹתַיִךְ כַּלָּה דְּבַשׁ וְחָלָב תַּחַת לְשׁוֹנֵךְ וְרֵיחַ שַׂלְמֹתַיִךְ כְּרֵיחַ לְבָנוֹן׃

     Thy lips, O my bride, drop honey— Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

2. daughter-in-law

• חתונה / חֲתֻנָּה (khatuná)

• H3618 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “כַּלָּה”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 277a
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 639b
• “כלה” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

From the root כ־ל־ה

כָּלָה • (kalá) (pa'al construction)

1. (flowery) to be finished, to be over, to be done, to be completed
2. (flowery) to have run out

כִּלָּה • (kilá) (pi'el construction)

1. defective spelling of כילה

כִּלָּה • (kilá) f

1. defective spelling of כילה

• “כלה” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language