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هَيْل
cardamom /ˈhajl/
nounB2#3980 most common
Also: cardamom seeds/pods
Example sentences
أُحِبُّ رَائِحَةَ الْهَيْلِ.
I love the smell of cardamom.
تَضَعُ أُمِّي الْهَيْلَ فِي الْقَهْوَةِ.
My mother puts cardamom in the coffee.
اِشْتَرَيْتُ كِيسًا مِنَ الْهَيْلِ مِنَ السُّوقِ.
I bought a bag of cardamom from the market.
يُضَافُ الْهَيْلُ الْمَطْحُونُ إِلَى الْحَلَوِيَّاتِ لِإِعْطَائِهَا نَكْهَةً مُمَيَّزَةً.
Ground cardamom is added to sweets to give them a distinctive flavor.
تَشْتَهِرُ الْقَهْوَةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ بِنَكْهَةِ الْهَيْلِ الَّتِي تُمَيِّزُهَا عَنْ أَنْوَاعِ الْقَهْوَةِ الْأُخْرَى.
Arabic coffee is known for the cardamom flavor that sets it apart from other kinds of coffee.
لِلْهَيْلِ فَوَائِدُ صِحِّيَّةٌ عَدِيدَةٌ، إِذْ يُسْتَخْدَمُ فِي الطِّبِّ الشَّعْبِيِّ لِعِلَاجِ اضْطِرَابَاتِ الْجِهَازِ الْهَضْمِيِّ مُنْذُ قُرُونٍ.
Cardamom has many health benefits, and has been used in folk medicine to treat digestive troubles for centuries.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | هَيْلٌ | |
| Genitive | هَيْلٍ | |
| Accusative | هَيْلًا | |
| Vocative | يَا هَيْلُ |
Word family
هَيْلcardamom (the spice, as a mass noun)
هَالَ / يَهِيلto pour or heap loose material
اِنْهَالَto pour down, collapse (like a landslide)
مُنْهَالpoured down, caved in
Etymology
هَيْل is a native Arabic word, not a borrowing from outside the Semitic family. It comes from the triliteral root ه-ي-ل, whose basic verb هَالَ / يَهِيل means to pour or heap up loose material, such as sand. The noun likely points to the small, loose seeds inside the pod, poured out rather than cut or ground. Because the root is Semitic rather than Indo-European, it has no Proto-Indo-European ancestor.
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