Etymology

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Today it means: A unit of time equal to an eighteenth of a minute (3⅓ seconds) Full definition →

Hebrew חֵלֶק
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  1. Hebrew · borrowed fromחֵלֶק
  2. English todayhelek

Borrowed from Hebrew חֵלֶק (ḥēleq).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.