ⲃⲉϩⲱⲗ

Coptic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Apparently from a descendant of Proto-Semitic *paḥal-, whose Arabic descendant فَحْل (faḥl) beside a male camel and virile man also means a male palm-tree, and a modification of which بَلَح (balaḥ) is used for fresh dates; direct borrowings are phonologically and chronologically difficult.

Noun

ⲃⲉϩⲱⲗ • (behōl) f (plural not attested)

  1. (Sahidic) date palm

References

  • Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary‎[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 48a
  • Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 30, gives Proto-Semitic *balaḥ- which we cannot maintain
  • “pḥl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, gives the meaning of “male palm” in square brackets for Mandaic without source or reasoning
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