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كحُاڸ

kḥoḷ (yekáḥaḷ/ľikḥóḷ or ľikḥáḷ)

basic morphological information

v. (Ia)

to paint one’s eyes with antimony
подкрашивать глаза сурьмой
كحل

LS 216; Naumkin et al. 2014a:50, 66

text examples

ŝínik ˁag di-yóˁod tšóbe áˁdeʰ di-ˁážeʰ kḥoḷ wa-ḥóni wa-ˁámor ḥóuḷehoḷ ‘I saw a man whose walk resembled the walk of a woman, and he had put kohl on his eyes and henna on his hands and feet, and he wore fingerrings’ (field notes)

etymology

Not unlike Mhr. ketḥáwl ‘to apply kohľ and Jib. kḥal ‘to apply kohľ, borrowed from Arb. kḥl ‘to anoint the eyes with kuḥl’. Comparable terms are attested almost throughout Semitic (CDG 279), their ultimate origin is unknown.