شهلة

See also: شهله

Arabic
Root
ش ه ل (š-h-l)

Pronunciation 1
  • IPA(key): /ʃuh.la/

Noun

شُهْلَة • (šuhla) f (obsolete)

  1. The color of anything أَشْهَل (ʔašhal) or شَهْلَاء (šahlāʔ).
    • d. c. 1048, Abu al-Walid al-Himyari, Kitab al-badi fi wasf al-rabi , (quoting Ibn Faraj al-Jayyani):
      كأكؤس فضة فيها ‖ نفايا شهلة الخمر
    • d. 1209, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Al-Firasa :
      أفضل ألوان العين الشهلة لأنها لون متوسط بين السواد و بين الزرقة والخضرة
      • 1999 translation by James Nathan Ford[1]
        The best color of eyes is the brownish/tawny color, since it is an intermediary color between black (on one hand) and blue and green (on the other).
Declension
Declension of noun شُهْلَة (šuhla)
Singular singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal شُهْلَة
šuhla		 الشُّهْلَة
aš-šuhla		 شُهْلَة
šuhlat
Nominative شُهْلَةٌ
šuhlatun		 الشُّهْلَةُ
aš-šuhlatu		 شُهْلَةُ
šuhlatu
Accusative شُهْلَةً
šuhlatan		 الشُّهْلَةَ
aš-šuhlata		 شُهْلَةَ
šuhlata
Genitive شُهْلَةٍ
šuhlatin		 الشُّهْلَةِ
aš-šuhlati		 شُهْلَةِ
šuhlati

Pronunciation 2
  • IPA(key): /ʃah.la/

Adjective

شَهْلَة • (šahla) f

  1. (of a woman) middle-aged, intelligent; old[2]

References
  1. Ford, J. N. (1999) ““Ninety-Nine by the Evil Eye and One from Natural Causes”: KTU2 1.96 in its Near Eastern Context”, in Ugarit-Forschungen, volume 30: 1998, Ugarit-Verlag, page 242, note 136
  2. Lane, Edward William (1863) “شهلة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
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