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▪ DRS 9 (2010) #ḤLW/Y: EmpAram ḥly, BiblAram ḥᵃlā, ḥalī, Syr ḥᵊlī, Mnd ḫlā, Ar ḥalà, ḥaliya ‘être doux, agréable au goût’, SAr ḥalwi: chose sucrée, Mhr ḥōli ‘agréable’, šəḥlū, Jib s̃ḥɛlé ‘trouver agréable’. – Hbr ḥᵃlī ‘collier, parure’, Ar ḥaly ‘ornement, parure, bijou’, ḥalà(y) ‘orner de pierreries, de bijoux’. – Hbr māḥᵃlat: terme technique de musique, Ar muḥallī ‘musicien’, Gz ḥalaya, Te ḥala, Amh ḥalläyä ‘chanter’; Tña ḥaläyä ‘chant’, Amh maḥlet ‘hymne’. – Ar ḥalà ‘donner qc à qn’, ḥilwān ‘cadeau, don’, Sab Min ḥly ‘don’, Soq ḥole ‘donner’; Gz ʔaḥlaya, ʔaḥallaya ‘donner un pot-de-vin’, ḥəlyān ‘pot-de-vin, don, récompense’.
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994 (#1225): No cognates given for Sem, but in WCh (Hs gállā́ ‘sweet juice sucked from the abdomen of a hornet’), allí ‘sweet’ in 1 CCh lang, and hal-am‑ ‘sweet’ in 1 Rift idiom.
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▪ Engl halvah ↗ḥalwà.

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NB: Below, only the derivatives of the value *‘sweetness’ are given. For others, esp. those of the (most prob. related) *‘adornment, jewelry’, cf. ↗ḥaly and, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ḤLW/Y.

►ḥulw al-ḥadīt, n., adj., gifted raconteur, amusing, entertaining;
►al-ġuddaẗ al-ḥulwaẗ, n.f., pancreas (anat.).

► ^BP#3940ḥaluwa, u, var. ḥaliya, a, and ḥalā, u (ḥalāwaẗ, ḥulwān), vb. I, 1 to be sweet; 2 to be pleasant, agreeable (li‑ to s.o.) | ḥalā la-hū al-šayʔ, expr., he enjoyed the thing; ḥalā la-hū ʔanna, expr., it pleased him that…, he was delighted that …; ḥasabamā ḥalā la-hū, expr., at his discretion, as he pleases
►ḥallà, vb. II, 1 to sweeten (s.th., e.g., a beverage with sugar); 2 ↗ḥaly: D-stem, caus.
►ĭstaḥlà, vb. X, to find sweet or pleasant, like (s.th.), be delighted (by): *Št-stem, declar.

►ḥal^an, def. ḥalà, n., sweetness, pleasantness.
► ^BP#4114ḥalwà, pl. ḥalāwà, n., candy, confection, confectionery, sweetmeats.
►ḥalwāʔᵘ, n., candy, confection, confectionery, sweetmeats: f. of elat. ^BP#1309ʔaḥlà.
► ^BP#4909ḥalwayāt (and Eg. ḥalwiyyāt), n.pl., 1a sweets (in general); b sweet pastry; c candies, confectionery, sweetmeats.
► ^BP#4201ḥalāwaẗ, n.f., 1 sweetness; 2 candies, confectionery, sweetmeats; 3 grace, gracefulness, charm, refinement, wittiness, wit; 4 present of money; 5 ransom: vn. I and fig. use. | ḥalāwaẗ ḥummuṣiyyaẗ, n.f., a sweet made of roasted chick-peas; ḥalāwaẗ ṭaḥīniyyaẗ, n.f., a sweet made of sesame-seed meal; ḥalāwaẗ lawziyyaẗ, n.f., a sweet made of almonds.
►ḥulwān, n., present of money, gratuity, tip: fig. use of *ʻsweetness, sweets’.
►ḥulwānī, var. ḥalwāʔī, n., 1 confectioner, candy dealer; 2 pastry cook, fancy baker: nisba formation.
►mā ʔuḥaylà…, expr., oh, how sweet is …: exclam. | mā ʔuḥaylā-hu, oh, how sweet he is!
►muḥall^an, det. muḥallà, adj., 1 sweetened; 2 ↗ḥaly: PP II.

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