# خلد
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

* Root
* خ ل د (ḵ l d)
* 3 terms
Compare Hebrew חלד (khéled, “world, era”) and Ge'ez ኀለደ (ḫälädä, “to last long”).

#### Verb

خَلَدَ • (ḵalada) I (non-past يَخْلُدُ (yaḵludu), verbal noun خُلُود (ḵulūd))
* to last forever, to be everlasting
* to be immortal
* to abide forever
* to remain, to stay
* to rest

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

خَلَّدَ • (ḵallada) II (non-past يُخَلِّدُ (yuḵallidu), verbal noun تَخْلِيد (taḵlīd))
* to make eternal, to make everlasting
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 56:17:يَطُوفُ عَلَيْهِمْ وِلْدَانٌ مُّخَلَّدُونَyaṭūfu ʕalayhim wildānun muḵalladūnaThere will circulate among them young boys made eternal.
* to perpetuate, to make immortal
* to make ineffaceable, to make unforgettable
* to remain, to stay, to abide, to linger
* to grow very old, to enjoy a long life, to be long-lived

##### Conjugation
#### Noun

خُلْد • (ḵuld) m
* infinite duration, endless time, perpetuity, eternity

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From Aramaic חוּלְדּא / ܚܘܠܕܐ (ḥuldā, “mole”). Compare Hebrew חולד (khóled).

#### Noun

خُلْد • (ḵuld) m (plural خِلْدَان (ḵildān) or مَنَاجِذ (manājiḏ))
* (zoology) blind mole-rat.
** (by extension) mole-rat
* (Modern Standard Arabic, zoology, proscribed) mole
    Synonyms: طُوبِين (ṭūbīn), طَوْبِين (ṭawbīn)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3
#### Noun

خَلَد • (ḵalad) m (plural أَخْلَاد (ʔaḵlād))
* mind, heart, spirit, temper
** a. 965, Al-Mutanabbī, chapter 69, in ʔAbū al-Baqāʔ al-ʕUkbariyy, edited by Ibrāhīm al-Abyārī, Muṣṭafā as-Saqqā, and ʕAbd al-Ḥafīẓ Šalabī, ديوان أبي الطيب المتنبي بشرح أبي البقاء العكبري, volume 1, Beirut, Lebanon: Dār Al-Maʔrifah, published 1978, →OCLC, page 350, line 7:مَا دَارَ فِي خَلَدِ الْأَيَّامِ لِي فَرَحٌ / أَبَا عُبَادَةَ حَتَّى دُرْتَ فِي خَلَدِيmā dāra fī ḵaladi al-ʔayyāmi lī faraḥun / ʔabā ʕubādata ḥattā durta fī ḵaladī(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Declension
### References

* ↑ Hommel, Fritz (1879) Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen‎ (in German), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 337, assumed it inherited from Proto-Semitic and there formed from the verb preceding חלד / ܚܠܕ (ḥlaḏ, “to grave or crawl in”) , in spite of this verb being present only in Aramaic and Mishnaic Hebrew, probably not knowing that Arabic Aramaisms can contain خ (ḵ), and with respect to the antiquity of the Hebrew cognate חֹלֶד (ḥōleḏ, “weasel, mole, mole-rat”) that verb is likely a Northwest Semitic extension of what is found in the Arabic root خ ل ل (ḵ-l-l) “to perforate”, Hebrew חָלַל (ḥālal, “to hollow out; to perforate”), Akkadian 𒄩𒆷𒈝 (ḫa-la-lum /⁠ḫalālu⁠/, “to creep in, to crawl in, to move quiet or stealthily”). Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2005) Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 147–148 No. 108, follow Hommel’s assumption without reflection.
* ↑ Al-Ḵalīl ibn Aḥmad Al-Farāhīdiyy (8th century) Mahdiyy Al-Makhzūmi, Ibrāhim Al-Samirra’iyy, editors, Al-Ayn (in Arabic), volume 4, دار ومكتبة الهلال, →OCLC, page 232: “وَٱلخُلْدُ: ضَرْبٌ مِنَ ٱلجُرْذَانِ عُمْيٌ، لَمْ يُخْلَقْ لَهَا عُيُونٌ، وَاحِدَتُهَا خِلْدَةٌ، وَٱلجَمِيْعُ خِلْدَانٌ ― wal-ḵuldu: ḍarbun mina l-jurḏāni ʕumyun, lam yuḵlaq lahā ʕuyūnun, wāḥidatuhā ḵildatun, wal-jamiyʕu ḵildānun”
* ↑ ابن منظور. «خلد»، لسان العرب.
* ↑ Fīrūzābādī (1834) Al-uqiyānūs al-basīt, 2nd edition, translated from Arabic into Ottoman Turkish by Aḥmad ʻĀṣim, Constantinople
* ↑ Lane, Edward William (1863) “خلد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 784b