# نخل
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

* Root
* ن خ ل (n ḵ l)
* 4 terms

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naxl/

#### Noun

نَخْل • (naḵl) m (collective, singulative نَخْلَة f (naḵla), plural نَخِيل (naḵīl))
* palm trees

##### Declension
### Etymology 2.1

* Root
* ن خ ل (n ḵ l)
* 4 terms

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /na.xa.la/

#### Verb

نَخَلَ • (naḵala) I (non-past يَنْخُلُ (yanḵulu), verbal noun نَخْل (naḵl))
* to sift, to clear, to secrete
** c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802$^{IA}$, Cap. 30, Art. 7, page 418:قال يؤخد قدر رطل من صناب طيب لعشرين ربعا من عصير العنب الحلو ويسحق الصناب وينخل ويعجن بالعسل الطيب بقدرما يمتزج به […]One takes a rottol of good mustard for twenty fourths of grape must and crushes the mustard and sieves and kneads it with good honey in such a quantity that they conjoin […]

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2.2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nax.xa.la/

#### Verb

نَخَّلَ • (naḵḵala) II (non-past يُنَخِّلُ (yunaḵḵilu), verbal noun تَنْخِيل (tanḵīl))
* to sift, to clear, to secrete

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2.3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naxl/

#### Noun

نَخْل • (naḵl) m
* verbal noun of نَخَلَ (naḵala) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

نَخْلُ • (naḵlu) (form I) /nax.lu/
* first-person plural non-past active jussive of خَلَا (ḵalā)

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

نخل (form II)
* نُخَلِّ (nuḵalli) /nu.xal.li/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of خَلَّى (ḵallā)
* نُخَلَّ (nuḵalla) /nu.xal.la/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of خَلَّى (ḵallā)

### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “نخل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 650
* Freytag, Georg (1837) “نخل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 256
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “نخل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 3029–3030
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نخل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1255

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَخْل (naḵl)

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [naxl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [näxl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [näxl]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [näxl]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [näxl̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [næxl̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [näχl]

### Noun

| Dari | نَخْل |
| Iranian Persian | نَخْل |
| Tajik | нахл |
نخل • (naxl) (plural نَخل‌ها (naxl-hâ))
* date palm, palm
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2960:لیک بر شیری مکن هم اعتماد / اندر آ در سایه‌‌ی نخل امیدlêk bar shêr-i makun ham i'timâd / andar â dar saya-i-naxl-i-umedBut do not even rely upon thy lion-heartedness: come into the shade of the palm tree of hope.

### References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “نخل”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

## South Levantine Arabic

* Root
* ن خ ل
* 1 term

### Etymology

From Arabic نَخْل (naḵl).

### Noun

نخل • (naḵl) m (collective, singulative نخلة f (naḵle), paucal نخلات (naḵlāt))
* (collective) palm trees