رَطَل
ráṭaľ
basic morphological information

n.

unit of measurement
единица измерения
رَطَل
LS 398; CSOL I 638
text examples

a. áwwaľ ez-zemán ˁag méskin yeḥódem ḷe-ḳaḥf wa-ráṭaľ ˁibáraʰ díˀʸheʰ ḷe-fŝo wa-díˀʸheʰ ḷe-taẓ̂ímoʰ ‘In times of old, there lived a poor man who worked for his daily bread, that is, for his lunch and his dinner’ (CSOL I 25:2)

b. gédaḥk tok wa-šénḥark tok eḥódem dέhɛr ḷe-ḳaḥf wa-ḷe-ráṭaľ ḷe-fŝo wa-ḷe-taẓ̂ímoʰ ‘I have come to you in order to complain. I work all the time for my daily bread, for my lunch and my dinner’ (CSOL I 25:8)

semantic notes

ḳaḥf wa-ráṭaľ (metaphorically) ‘one's daily bread’: a, b.

etymology

Borrowed from Arabic raṭl- ‘a measure of capacity’ (Lane 1102, Wehr 399, Behnstedt 449). Cf. MLZ 383.