حلقوس

Where it comes from

From Ancient Greek χαλκός (khalkós, “copper”). The cosmetic and the art of its application are vulgarly claimed to be of Punic substrate. The word has probably been borrowed on two occasions regardless of it, the ر (r) form being a previous popular borrowing, wherefor the pigment and dipterans meaning are mostly if not exclusively with this consonantism, whereas the expected خ (ḵ) onset and rather literary ل (l) use are owed to the Graeco-Arabic translation movement grafting a learned borrowing upon the previously known word.