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حل

“حل” is an Arabic word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to unfasten; to untie; to unknot; to unravel; to disentangle; to loosen
  2. to solve, to find an answer to or a solution for (something, such as a problem); to untangle; to crack
  3. to liquefy; to dissolve
  4. to turn into a solution
  5. to invalidate, to deprive of effective legal or otherwise binding power; to dissolve
  6. to breach (a contract, an agreement, an oath, and the like); to break
  7. to settle; to approach
  8. to dismount; to stop, to halt
  9. to stay, to settle
  10. to visit
  11. to live in, to reside in (a place)
  12. to occupy, to take (someone's place)
  13. to descend, to go down
  14. to occur, to happen
  15. to befall [with بِ (bi) or عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘someone’] (of punishment, suffering, hatred or something else negative)
  16. to overwhelm [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘someone’] (of sleep)
  17. to arrive, to begin (of a season or time)
  18. to become incarnate [with فِي (fī) ‘in someone’] (of God)
  19. to be or become permissible or lawful

noun

  1. a solution

Etymology

From the root ح ل ل (ḥ l l). Compare Hebrew חל. The meaning of “sesame oil” may derive via a chain of calques from Akkadian 𒉌𒄑 (ellum), which is also homographic to 𒉌𒄑 (šamnum, “oil”), that, to build a bridge, might suggest that Aramaic חָלָא / ܚܠܐ (ḥallā) also had this meaning but has consistently been misread as more common “vinegar”, the etymon of Arabic خَلّ (ḵall, “vinegar”), if not other…

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