Middle English Dictionary Entry
cabeli n.
Entry Info
| Forms | cabeli n. Also kebuli. |
| Etymology | ML, from Urdu. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The dried fruit of the tree chebule Terminalia chebula.
Associated quotations
- [ a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)334/20 : Of medicyns resolutiuis, summe ben simple: as camomilla..kebulus. ]
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)62/32 : Þis medicyne..purgeþ humours..þat is citrinez colre, kebuliz fleume [L kebuli flavam].
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)85/9 : Take of Merabole, galengan, Cabeli.