כלך

Hebrew

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَلْخ (kalḵ), from the earlier قَلْح (qalḥ), itself from Classical Syriac ܩܠܚܠܚܐ (qlaḥlāḥā, “giant fennel”)/Aramaic קִלְחָא (qilḥā).

Pronunciation

(Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈke.leχ/

Noun

כֶּלֶךְ • (kélekh) m [pattern: קֶטֶל]

Ferula, A taxonomic genus within the family Apiaceae.

Declension

Declension of **כֶּלֶךְ**
	isolated forms		with possessive pronouns
Number:	State:	form	Person:	singular		plural
Number:	State:	form	Person:	m	f	m	f
singular	indefinite	כֶּלֶךְ	first	כִּלְכִי		כִּלְכֵנוּ
	definite	הַכֶּלֶךְ	second	כִּלְכְךָ	כִּלְכֵךְ	כִּלְכְכֶם	כִּלְכְכֶן
	construct	כֶּלֶךְ־	third	כִּלְכוֹ	כִּלְכָהּ	כִּלְכָם	כִּלְכָן
plural	indefinite	כְּלָכִים	first	כלכיי / כְּלָכַי		כְּלָכֵינוּ
	definite	הַכְּלָכִים	second	כְּלָכֶיךָ	כלכייך / כְּלָכַיִךְ	כִּלְכֵיכֶם	כִּלְכֵיכֶן
	construct	כִּלְכֵי־	third	כְּלָכָיו	כְּלָכֶיהָ	כִּלְכֵיהֶם	כִּלְכֵיהֶן

References

Klein, Ernest (1987), “כלך”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 278