خ و ي

Unparallelled by other Semitic languages. Probably a phonetic variant of غ و ي (ḡ-w-y), especially as in غ و ر (ḡ-w-r) or غ و ص (ḡ-w-ṣ), or of ه و ي (h-w-y).

خ و ي • (ḵ-w-y)

1. related to not being saturated, an empty stomach

• Form I: خَوَى (ḵawā, “to be empty, to be devoid, to be desolate, to be not saturated with anything”)
  • Verbal noun: خَوَاء (ḵawāʔ), خَوًى (ḵawan)
  • Active participle: خَاوٍ (ḵāwin)
  • Passive participle: مَخْوِيّ (maḵwiyy)
• Form I: خَوِيَ (ḵawiya, “to be empty, to be devoid, to be desolate, to be not saturated with anything”)
  • Verbal noun: خَوَاء (ḵawāʔ)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَخْوِيّ (maḵwiyy)
• Form IV: أَخْوَى (ʔaḵwā, “to be empty, to be devoid, to be desolate, to be not saturated with anything; to rape, to snatch away”)
  • Verbal noun: إِخْوَاء (ʔiḵwāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُخْوٍ (muḵwin)
  • Passive participle: مُخْوًى (muḵwan)
• Form VIII: اِخْتَوَى (iḵtawā, “to be empty, to be devoid, to be desolate, to be not saturated with anything; to peragrate; to rape or keep for oneself all”)
  • Verbal noun: اِخْتِوَاء (iḵtiwāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُخْتَوٍ (muḵtawin)
  • Passive participle: مُخْتَوًى (muḵtawan)

• خَوَايَة (ḵawāya, “concave spot of a cusp where a spear is connected; any ample spot within a man”)
• خَوَاة (ḵawāh, “insterstice between mammae and vulva of a beast”)

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 443
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “خ و ي”, 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 539
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خ و ي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 370