Jastrow: כַּרְמֶל

כַּרְמֶל m. (b. h.; v. כֶּרֶם) 1) a well-cultivated plot; whence (sub. גרש) (grist of) early ripened and tender barley. Men. 66ᵇ; Sifra Vayikra, N’dabah, ch. XIV, Par. 13 (ref. to Lev. II, 14). כ̇ר̇מ̇ל̇ ר̇ך̇ ומ̇ל̇ soft yet brittle; Y. Sabb. I, 2ᵈ bot. [read:] רך מל לא לח וכ׳ soft yet brittle, neither green nor dry, but between the two. Sifra l. c.; Men. l. c. (another explan.) כ̇ר̇ מ̇ל̇א rounded and full. —2) pr. n. Carmel; (prob. everywhere) Mount Carmel. Y. Succ. III, 53ᵈ כשעוה וכשושנת כ׳ of the color of wax or of the lily of Carmel (v. יְרַקְרַק); (Tosef. Neg. I, 5 כשעוה וכקורמל, Var. וכקורמן; R. S. to Neg. XI, 4 וכקורמין).—Y. Ber. I, 2ᵇ bot. ראש הר הכ׳; Sabb. 35ᵃ ראש הכ׳ (Ms. M. ראש הר הכ׳) the summit of M. C. Gen. R. s. 99; Mekh. Yithro, Baḥod., s. 5 (alluding to Jer. XLVI, 18) תבור … וכ׳ מאספמיא Tabor came (to the desert for the law-giving) from Beth-Elim and C. from Ispamia; Meg. 29ᵃ