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to be niggardly, be stingy (bi‑ with s.th., ʕan or ʕalà with regard to s.o.), scrimp (ʕan, ʕalà s.o., bi‑ for), stint (bi‑ in, ʕan or ʕalà s.o.), withhold (ʕan, ʕalà from s.o., bi‑ s.th.) – WehrCowan1979.

conc

Etymology unclear. If regular, baḫi/ula should go back to a vb. (WSem?) *baḫ˅l‑.

hist

lC6 ʕAntara b. Šaddād 68,13 al-dahru yabḫalu tāratan wa-yaǧūdu ‘time/destiny is sometimes a miser, and gives generously (at other times)’, ▪ eC7 Ḥuṭayʔa 117,7 lam yabḫal wa-lam yataʕallali (Polosin 1995)
▪ eC7 Q 47:38 (to be or act in a niggardly or miserly way) hā-ʔantum hāʔulāʔi tudʕawna li-tunfiqū fī sabīli ’ḷḷāhi fa-min-kum man yabḫalu ‘here you are called upon to spend in the cause of God, but some of you will be niggardly’, 57:24 (miserliness etc) allaḏīna yabḫalūna wa-yaʔmurūna ’l-nāsa bi’l-buḫli ‘those who are miserly and urge miserliness on others’

cogn

▪ BDB1906, Zammit2002: Hbr *bāḥēl (pu.) ‘to get by greed’
▪ DRS 2 (1994)#BḪL ? : Hbr mᵉboḥälät (dans naḥᵃlā mᵉboḥälät) ‘(possession) obtenue par avarice (?)’; ? (Aram) Aysor bāḫil ‘envier’, baḫilāna ‘envieux’.

disc

▪ DRS 2 (1994)#BḪL ? : Hbr mᵉboḥälät (dans naḥᵃlā mᵉboḥälät) ‘(possession) obtenue par avarice (?)’; ? (Aram) Aysor bāḫil ‘envier’, baḫilāna ‘envieux’. mᵉboḥälät (Prov. 20, 21 Ketib) : interprétation (fort douteuse) de Gesenius, many others against him. — See also BʕL ?
▪ Etymology unclear due to scarcity of evidence outside Ar. Some relate the root to BḤL or BʕL, but this is doubtful. The Hbr and Aram (Aysor) cognates given by BDB, Zammit and DRS do not provide sufficient evidence for reliable reconstruction. If regular, baḫi/ula should go back to a vb. (WSem?) *baḫ˅l.

west

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deriv

► tabāḫala, vb. VI, to give reluctantly, grudgingly (ʕan, ʕalà to s.o., bi‑ s.th.): assoc., ‘to behave in a… way’.
► buḫl, n., avarice, cupidity, greed: vn. I.
► baḫīl, pl. buḫalāʔᵘ, adj., avaricious, greedy; n., miser, skinflint: pseudo-PA/PP, ints.
► mabḫalaẗ, n.f., cause of avarice, that which arouses avarice or greed: n.loc. (?)

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