حرذون

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Arabic

 حرذون on Arabic Wikipedia

Alternative forms

Etymology

Derived from Aramaic חַרְדּוֹנ (ḥardōn, crocodile; large lizard), cognates with ܚܲܪܕܵܢܵܐ (ḥarḏōnā), Hebrew חַרְדּוֹן (ḥardôn); ultimately from Aramaic חרּד (ḥarrēd, to terrify).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħir.ðawn/, /ħar.ðuːn/

Noun

حِرْذَوْن or حَرْذُون (ḥirḏawn or ḥarḏūnm (plural حَرَاذِين (ḥarāḏīn))

  1. (general) lizard, reptile
  2. agama; members of Agamidae, dragon lizards

Declension

Descendants

  • Galician: xardón
  • Mozarabic: *fardačo (partially) (see there for further descendants)
  • Ottoman Turkish: حرذون (hırzun)
  • Portuguese: sardão

References

  • ḥrdwn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2010) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 362
  • Corriente, Federico (2005) “حرذون”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe (in Spanish), 2nd edition, volume I, Barcelona: Herder, page 223
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 123
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “حرذون”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 365
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “حرذون”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 406
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “حرذون”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 545
  • Löw, Immanuel (1912) “Aramäische Lurchnamen”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete (in German), volume 26, pages 136–137
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حرذون”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 271
  • Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “حرذون”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 500
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “حرذون”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 196
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “حرذون”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 244