ġilālaẗ غِلالة , pl. ġalāʔilᵘ
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√ĠLː (ĠLL)
1a a fine, diaphanous cape, mantilla, veil; b shirtlike garment, gown – WehrCowan1976
▪ Lane’s (vi 1877) rendering of ġilālaẗ as ‘garment that is worn next the body, beneath the other garment, and likewise beneath the coat of mail’ suggests that it is derived from ↗ġalla ‘to insert, enter’.
▪ Historically, ġilālaẗ is also attested as †‘pin fastening two rings of a coat of mail’, a value that would bring it close to the idea of ‘holding together, binding together’, as in ↗²ġull ‘yoke; manicles, fetters’
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▪ †ġilālaẗ ‘pin fastening two rings of a coat of mail’.
▪ Cf. also †ġullaẗ (pl. ġulal ) ‘robe de dessous’ (> †ĭnġalla ‘mettre, avoir un vêtement sous un autre’), †ġalīlaẗ ‘robe de dessous; garment worn beneath a coat of mail; coat of mail’ (> †ʔaġalla ‘to put on a coat of mail’).
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▪ ↗ġalla, perh. also ↗²ġull.
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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►ġilālaẗ al-nawm, n.f., nightshirt, nightgown For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗¹ġalla, ↗ġallaẗ (with ↗ĭstaġalla ), ↗ġill, ↗¹ġull and ↗²ġull, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗ĠLː (ĠLL).
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