قلة

قِلَّة • (qilla) f (plural قِلَل (qilal))

1. verbal noun of قَلَّ (qalla) (form I)
2. littleness, smallness, scarceness, fewness
3. lack, want, poverty
4. fit of trembling

• → Azerbaijani: qillət
• → Catalan: arguell
  • → Aragonese: arguello
  • → Navarran Spanish: arguello
• → Ottoman Turkish: قلت (kıllet)
  • Turkish: kıllet
• → Persian: قلت (qellet)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: क़िल्लत (qillat)

    Urdu: قلت (qillat)

Compare قُنَّة (qunna), قِمَّة (qimma) of like meaning.

قُلَّة • (qulla) f (plural قُلَل (qulal))

1. peak, summit, vertex, apogee

• → Persian: قله
  • → Ottoman Turkish: قله
    • Turkish: kule
    • → Bulgarian: кула (kula)
    • → Macedonian: кула (kula)
    • → Romanian: culă
    • → Serbo-Croatian: кула
• → Swahili: kilele

Borrowed from Aramaic קוּלְתָא (qulləṯā), same. From Akkadian 𒄣𒇷𒌋 (qulliu, “a bowl”), older Akkadian 𒄖𒌌𒇻 (gullu, “a container”), also Akkadian 𒄖𒌌𒆷𒌅 (gullatu, “ewer”). Also exists as Biblical Hebrew גֻלָּה (gullāh), Ugaritic 𐎂𐎍 (gl), Eblaite 𒄘𒇷𒈝 (GÚ-LI-LUM). Directly from Classical Syriac ܩܽܘܠܬܳܐ (qulləṯā): Latin culullus (“wine jug”), Ancient Greek κόλλαθον (kóllathon, “a unit of liquid measure used in Syria”) (also rendered as Latin collathum and reborrowed as Classical Syriac ܩܘܠܐܬܘܢ / ܩܘܠܬܘܢ). Also from Semitic: Ancient Greek γαυλός (gaulós, “a kind of round vase for drinking”) and γαῦλος (gaûlos, “a kind of Punic freight vessel”), from which both Latin gaulus.

• جُلَّة (julla)

قُلَّة • (qulla) f (plural قِلَال (qilāl))

1. jug, jar, pitcher, ewer (especially of wine)
   • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 34:27:

     رَأَيْتُنَا نَغْتَرِفُ مِنْ وَقْبِ عَيْنِهِ [ٱلْعَنْبَرِ] بِٱلْقِلَالِ الدُّهْنَ وَنَقْتَطِعُ مِنْهُ الْفِدَرَ كَٱلثَّوْرِ أَوْ كَقَدْرِ الثَّوْرِ

     raʔaytunā naḡtarifu min waqbi ʕaynihi [l-ʕanbari] bi-l-qilāli d-duhna wanaqtaṭiʕu minhu l-fidara kaṯ-ṯawri ʔaw kaqadri ṯ-ṯawri

     I saw how we extracted pitcher after pitcher full of fat from the cavity of its [the sperm whale’s] eye, and cut from it pieces of meat resembling a bull or being of the measure of a bull.

   • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 36:6:

     فَإِنَّ الْخَمْرَ قَدْ حُرِّمَتْ فَقَالَ يَا أَنَسُ أَرِقْ هَذِهِ الْقِلَالَ

     faʔinna l-ḵamra qad ḥurrimat faqāla yā ʔanasu ʔariq haḏihi l-qilāla

     Verily, wine has been forbidden. O Anas, spill these pitchers!

• Maltese: qolla
• → Armenian: կուլա (kula)
• → Catalan: alcolla, ancolla
• → Coptic: ⲕⲉⲗⲱⲗ (kelōl) ?
• → Georgian: ქილა (kila) ?
• → Malay: kolah
  • Indonesian: kulah
• → Spanish: alcolla

قُلَّة • (qulla) f (plural قُلَل (qulal))

1. alternative form of كُلَّة (kulla, “cannonball; marble”)

• “qwlh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “qwltwn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “qulliu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[1], volume 13, Q, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1982, pages 297–298
• “gullatu, gullu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[2], volume 5, G, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956, page 129
• Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 148–149
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• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “قلة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 437.
• Olmo Lete, Gregorio del with Sanmartín, Joaquín and Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2015) “gl (II)”, in A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 112), 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 297
• Schubert, Alexander T., Sijpesteijn, Petra M. (2014) Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 211–213
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