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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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KLʔ كلأ 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021, last update 15Feb2023
√KLʔ 
“root” 
▪ KLʔ_1 ‘to hold back; to guard, protect’ ↗kalaʔa
▪ KLʔ_2 ‘grass, herbage, pasture’ ↗kalaʔ
▪ KLʔ_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘pasture, vegetation, herbage; to guard over; to stay awake at night; shore, to bring a boat in to port’ 
▪ Any relation betw. KLʔ_1 and KLʔ_2?
 
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▪ DRS 10 (2012) #KLʔ/W/Y, KLL, KLKL-1 […] ↗kilā. -2 Akk kalū, oAss kalāʔu ‘arrêter, retenir, refuser’, Hbr kālāʔ ‘retenir’, JudPal kᵊlā ‘retenir, empêcher’, Ar kalaʔa ‘différer, remettre à plus tard; surveiller, veiller sur, protéger’, kallāʔ ‘port’, kallaʔa ‘retenir, détenir, contenir’, Hbr kālā, Syr kᵊlā, Gz kalʔā, Te kälʔa, Tña kälʔe, Amh källa, Gur källa, ḫänʔa; Te källäla, kälkäla, Tña kälkälä, Amh Gaf käläkkälä, Arg käläkkäla ‘empêcher, interdire, refuser’. – Akk kill-, kīl-, Hbr keleʔ ‘détention, emprisonnement’; nikᵊlāʔ ‘enclos’. – Akk kalū ‘barrage’, Ar mukallāʔ, YemAr kallāʔ ‘rive de fleuve’, kilāʔ ‘terrasse’; nomades d’Orient čālī ‘bord escarpé’.1 -3 Ar kalaʔ ‘pâturage’, Sab ʔklʔ (pl.) ‘pâturages’, klwt ‘champs en terrasses (?), mur de barrage (?)’.2 -4 Hbr ‘se gonfler, se remplir d’air’, kalkal- ‘poitrine; flanc’; kilkal ‘embrasser, comprendre, tenir, contenir; pourvoir’. -5 […]. 
See above, section CONC. 
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kalaʔ‑ كَلَأَ , a (kalʔ, kilāʔ, kilāʔaẗ) 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√KLʔ 
vb., I 
to guard, preserve, watch, protect – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ Any relation to ↗kalaʔ ‘grass, herbage, pasture’?
 
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▪ DRS 10 (2012) #KLʔ/W/Y, KLL, KLKL-1 […] ↗kilā. -2 Akk kalū, oAss kalāʔu ‘arrêter, retenir, refuser’, Hbr kālāʔ ‘retenir’, JudPal kᵊlā ‘retenir, empêcher’, Ar kalaʔa ‘différer, remettre à plus tard; surveiller, veiller sur, protéger’, kallāʔ ‘port’, kallaʔa ‘retenir, détenir, contenir’, Hbr kālā, Syr kᵊlā, Gz kalʔā, Te kälʔa, Tña kälʔe, Amh källa, Gur källa, ḫänʔa; Te källäla, kälkäla, Tña kälkälä, Amh Gaf käläkkälä, Arg käläkkäla ‘empêcher, interdire, refuser’. – Akk kill-, kīl-, Hbr keleʔ ‘détention, emprisonnement’; nikᵊlāʔ ‘enclos’. – Akk kalū ‘barrage’, Ar mukallāʔ, YemAr kallāʔ ‘rive de fleuve’, kilāʔ ‘terrasse’; nomades d’Orient čālī ‘bord escarpé’.3 -3–5 […] (cf. ↗√KLʔ).
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See above, section CONC. 
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►ĭktalaʔa, vb. VIII, to find no sleep (eye)

►kalūʔ, adj.: kalūʔ al‑ʕayn, sleepless, awake
► al‑Mukallā, n.geogr., Mukalla (seaport in S Yemen): *‘the one with the barrage (or: terrasses)’?

For other meanings of the root, cf. ↗kalaʔ and, for the general picture, ↗√KLʔ. 
kalaʔ كَلَأ , pl. ʔaklāʔ 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√KLʔ 
n. 
grass, herbage, pasture – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ Any relation to ↗kalaʔa ‘to hold back; to protect’?
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▪ DRS 10 (2012) #KLʔ/W/Y, KLL, KLKL-1 […] ↗kilā. -2 […] ↗kalaʔa. -3 Ar kalaʔ ‘pâturage’, Sab ʔklʔ (pl.) ‘pâturages’, klwt ‘champs en terrasses (?), mur de barrage (?)’.4 -4–5 […] (cf. ↗√KLʔ). 
See above, section CONC. 
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For other meanings of the root, cf. ↗kalaʔa and, for the general picture, ↗√KLʔ. 
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