מוהל

Present participle of מָהַל (mahál, “to cirumcise”). First appearing in Tosefta Berakhot 6:12 (according to the Lieberman edition) during late antiquity. The choice to use the participle of מָהַל rather than מָל is likely due to Aramaic influence, where מְהַל is more commonly used for circumcision.

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /moˈ(h)el/

מוֹהֵל • (mohél) m (plural indefinite מוֹהֲלִים, singular construct מוֹהֵל־, plural construct מוֹהֲלֵי־, feminine counterpart מוֹהֶלֶת)

1. (Judaism) mohel (male)
   • a. 230 C.E., Tosefta. Berachot, section 6.12:

     הַמּוֹהֵל צָרִיךְ בְּרָכָה לְעַצְמוֹ. אוֹ׳ בָּרוּךְ עַל הַמִּילָה.

     The Mohel must make a blessing himself. He says, "Baruch [...] Al HaMilah."

• → Yiddish: מוהל (moyel)
  • → English: mohel

Cognate to Classical Syriac ܡܚܠܬܐ (maḥḥalṯā, “sieve”), Arabic مِنْخَل (minḵal, “sieve”).

• מוֹחַל (moḥal)

מוֹהַל • (mohál) m

1. (Mishnaic Hebrew) sieve, searce

• Fleischer, Heinrich (1883) “Nachträgliches”, in Neuhebräisches und Chaldäisches Wörterbuch über die Talmudim und Midraschim (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Baumgärtners Buchhandlung, page 305b to Levy, Jacob (1883) Neuhebräisches und Chaldäisches Wörterbuch über die Talmudim und Midraschim (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Baumgärtners Buchhandlung, page 39a
• Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 137–138

Borrowed from Hebrew מוֹהֵל (mohél).

מוהל • (moyel) m, plural מוהלים (moyelim)

1. mohel, circumcisor

• → English: mohel