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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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kaḥl كَحْل 
ID 740 • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√KḤL 
n. 
OBSinfertile year, year of draught, barrenness, dearth; hard year; calamity, misery. Lane, Wahrmund. – For ‘sky’ ↗ʔakḥalᵘ . 
Distinct from ↗kaḥ˅l‑, ↗kuḥl, and ↗ʔakḥalᵘ, or going back to the same etymon? If the latter, kaḥl would be figurative use, an infertile year being a ‘black’ or ‘dark’ year. 
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► †kaḥala, a, vb. I, to be infertile (year) and cause damage to the people: denominative? 
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