خرطال

Where it comes from

From the root ق ر ط ل (q r ṭ l) meaning “a packsaddle”, “a basket or bag intended for provisions”, from Aramaic קרטל (qarṭāl, “basket”) (Christian spelling ܩܪܛܠܐ), which could be:

* from Hittite 𒄑𒆳𒋫𒀀𒀠 (kurtal-, kartal-)

* borrowed from Ancient Greek κάρταλος (kártalos), κάρταλλος (kártallos) which is

** either from Ancient Greek κυρτία (kurtía, “anything made of wicker”); for more see Proto-Indo-European *kert-, found in Sanskrit कृणत्ति (kṛṇátti, “to twist thread, to spin”), Sanskrit चृटति (cṛṭáti, “to bind, to fasten together”), Latin crātis (“wattle fence, corral”), English hurdle.

** or borrowed from Aramaic, from Hittite, in which case the Aramaic is not from Ancient Greek

* derived from Middle Persian glyw' (grīw, “a measure of grain, a peck”) + -dʾl (dār, “holder, keeper, container of”).

This must also be the name for “more than one of the highly succulent salt marsh chenopods that are considered poor grazing for camels” like Bienertia cycloptera and Suaeda aegyptiaca Mandaville records from various Najdi tribes as هَرْطَلَّس (harṭallas), هَطَلَّس (hatạllas), هَرْطَبِيل (harṭabīl), هُرْطُمَان (hurṭumān), طَرْطَيع (ṭartēʕ), هَطْلَس (haṭlas) but curiously describes as seemingly involving a quinqueliteral root.