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√ḤLM
sexual maturity, puberty – WehrCowan1979.
▪ Prob. developed from a basic *‘to dream’ along the line *‘dream, to dream’ (↗ḥulm) > ‘to have wet dreams, nightly pollutions’ > ‘sexual maturity, puberty, to attain puberty’ (ḥulum, ↗ĭḥtalama).
▪ Kogan2015 reconstructs protWSem *ḥlm ‘to dream’ (SED I #25ᵥ) (82 #21) and protCSem *ḥlm ‘to be mature, fat, vigorous’ (190 #25).
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▪ eC7 Q 24:58 allaḏīna lam yabluġū ’l-ḥuluma ‘those who have not reached or attained puberty’
▪ DRS 9 (2010)#ḤLM–2 Ug ḥlm, Hbr *ḥālam ‘être fort (jeune animal)’, hęḥᵊlīm ‘rendre bien portant’, Syr ḥᵉlīmā ‘sain, en bonne santé’, Ar ĭḥtalama ‘arriver à l’âge de puberté’, ḥalīm ‘gras (animal)’; ? Mhr ḥəlūm ‘enfler (blessure)’; – Ar ḥaluma ‘être doux, indulgent, intelligent’, ḥilm ‘indulgence, tranquillité.
▪ DRS 9 (2010)#ḤLM connects the notion of ‘gentleness, clemency; insight, discernment, reason, wisdom’ etc. (↗ḥilm) as being dependent on having reached ‘puberty, sexual maturity’. This sounds not impossible; etymologically, however, it is not necessarily correct.
▪ DRS separates ‘puberty’ from ‘to have wet dreams, nightly pollutions’ (↗ĭḥtalama, which is seen as a specialisation of ‘dream, to dream’, see ↗ḥulm) and rather connects it to the idea of ‘strength, healthiness’ as attached to √ḤLM in Hbr and Aram.
▪ In contrast, Badawi/AbdelHaleem2008follow Lane and some ClassAr lexicographers in interpreting ‘sexual maturity, puberty’ as a function of ‘to have wet dreams, nightly pollutions’ (↗ĭḥtalama), from ‘dream, to dream’ (↗ḥulm).
▪ Semantically, one could even think of the idea of ‘insight, wisdom’ etc. (↗ḥilm) as being dependent on having reached ‘maturity’. Etymologically, however, this is not necessarily true.
► ĭḥtalama, vb. VIII, to attain puberty: denom. from ḥulum (?). See also s.v.. ► muḥtalim, adj., sexually mature, pubescent, marriageable: PA VIII. For ‘dream, wet dream, nightly pollution’ etc., cf. ↗ḥulm and ↗ĭḥtalama. – For ‘gentleness, clemency; insight, discernment, reason’ ↗ḥilm.
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