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√ḤLM
tick; mite; nipple, teat, mammilla (of the female breast) – WehrCowan1979.
▪ Perh. akin to the complex derived from *‘dream, to dream’ (↗ḥulm), though the precise nature of such a relationship would still have to be established.
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▪ DRS 9 (2010)#ḤLM–3 Ar ḥalima ‘avoir la peau infestée de parasites’, ḥalamaẗ ‘tique’.
▪ DRS 9 (2010)#ḤLM–4 Syr ḥᵃlametā, Ar ḥalamaẗ, Soq ḥálmeh ‘bout du sein’.
▪ DRS 9 (2010) lists ‘tick, mite’ and ‘nipple, mammilla’ as distinct items but adds that the latter may be derived from the former. Badawi/AbdelHaleem2008 connects also the value ‘young goat’[(DRS 9 (2010)#ḤLM-9: Ar †ḥullām ‘agneau, chevreau’.)], now obsolete, to ‘nipple’.
► ḥalamī, adj., 1 parasitic; 2 mammillary, nipple-shaped: nsb-adj.
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