حجل

Etymology
The absence of farther cognates suggests a borrowing of the name for the bird from, , also appearing early, although by itself the term is unsuspicious and cognacy cannot be excluded. Although there is a potential semantic connection to the verb “to hop”, this would require a synonymous verb to exist in a common ancestor of Arabic and Syriac as the latter is, owing to its age, unlikely to be a borrowing from Arabic, so if the words are related, the verb would have to be denominal. In that case, the word for an anklet could also be denominal, naming a thing on the part of the body used to hop; however there is also a connection to and its Semitic matches related to detaining and 🇨🇬 /, possibly the source verb of the name of the partridge due to its going around or due to its bulbous body depending on the species, 🇨🇬, also 🇨🇬, and the surrounding meaning is again found for the root ḥ-g-l in 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, which implies together with the consideration of workmanship lacking in the Najd that instead, the word for an anklet or shackle was borrowed into Arabic from a more southern Semitic language, from which the word for hopping was then derived, whereas the word for the partridge is to be seen as borrowed from 🇨🇬 to account for its etymology.

Noun

 * 1)  partridge

Verb

 * 1) to hop, to take leaps, to walk as if with the legs shackled

Verb

 * 1) to bedeck with anklets or shackles
 * 2) to bring to the curtained canopy

Noun

 * 1)  an anklet as well as a shackle