خوخة

Singulative noun composed of خَوْخ (ḵawḵ, “peach; plum”) +‎ ـَة (-a).

• IPA^(key): /xaw.xa/

خَوْخَة • (ḵawḵa) f (singulative, collective خَوْخ m (ḵawḵ))

1. singulative of خَوْخ (ḵawḵ)

Most likely from Old South Arabian 𐩭𐩭 (ḫḫ) from which also Ge'ez ኆኅት (ḫoḫət, “door, gate, wall opening”), from which Amharic ኆኅት (ḫoḫət, “space between letters”); also found in Shehri ḫɔh, Mehri ḫā, Soqotri ḥe which there even replaced the Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”), and Biblical Hebrew חוֹחַ (ḥōaḥ, “crevice, fissure; bramble, thicket; hole, hiding place”).

• IPA^(key): /xaw.xa/

خَوْخَة • (ḵawḵa) f (plural خُوَخ (ḵuwaḵ))

1. wicket, aperture
   1. hatch, loophole, peephole (in a building’s wall)

      Synonyms: مَنْوَر (manwar), وَصْوَص (waṣwaṣ), وَصْْوَاص (waṣwāṣ), كَوَّة (kawwa), كُوَّة (kuwwa), ثُغْرَة (ṯuḡra)

   2. sluice gate, canal lock (in a passage)

• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 260
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 51
• Weninger, Stefan (2007) “Ethiopic Loanwords”, in Versteegh, Kees, editor, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 56
• Weninger, Stefan (2009) “Der Jemen als lexikalisches Ausstrahlungszentrum in der Antike”, in Philologisches und Historisches zwischen Anatolien und Sokotra. Analecta Semitica in memoriam Alexander Sima‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz, →ISBN, page 405 Nr. 13

From Arabic خَوْخَة (ḵawḵa).

• IPA^(key): /xuː.xa/

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خوخة • (ḵūḵa) f (singulative, collective خوخ m (ḵūḵ), paucal خوخات (ḵūḵāt))

1. singulative of خوخ (ḵūḵ)