athel English

Meaning athel meaning

What does athel mean?

athel adjective

— (obsolete, or, UK, _, dialectal) Noble; illustrious

athel noun

— (obsolete) A chief or lord.

— (UK, _, dialectal, Scotland) A prince or noble.

athel noun

— A kind of tamarisk native to northern Africa and the Middle East, Tamarix aphylla, planted widely elsewhere as a shade tree and a windbreak due to its tolerance of heat and of alkaline soils, but tending to become invasive outside of its native range.

— A discrimination of originality and nobility ( الأصيل)