Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry هل
4 أَهْلَلْنَا هِلَالَ شَهْرِ كَذَا : see سَلَخَ.
10 اِسْتَهَلَّ : see a verse cited at the close of the first paragraph of art. ضحك.
See also a verse cited voce أَفْثَأَ.
See مُسْتَهَلٌّ.
هَلْ may be originally هَلْو or هَلْى or هَلّ: (Akh, in S, voce بل:) see بَلْ.
هَلْ followed by إِلَى: see the latter.
حَىّ هَلَ: see حى.
هَلَّا: see حَضَّةٌ and عَنْ, latter part, and لَوْلَا, and أَلَّا. هَلَّةٌ : see بَلَّةٌ.
الهِلاَلُ The new moon; or the moon when it is termed هِلاَل: it may be explained as meaning, generally, the moon when near the sun, or moon a little after or before the change.
See سَمَا.
مُسْتَهَلُّ الشَّهْرِ The first night of the lunar month. (Msb.)
E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.
