ذي

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Arabic

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ذِي (ḏīf

  1. this (feminine singular of ذا)

Noun

ذِي (ḏīm

  1. genitive masculine singular of ذُو (ḏū)

Mozarabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin .

Preposition

ذي (ḏī)

  1. of
    • c. 1100, al-Aʕmā al-Tuṭīlī, Kharja A19 :
      لفَاج ذِ مَطْرَانَهْ
      la-fāja ḏi maṭrāna
      The face of dawn
  2. from
    • c. 1100, al-Aʕmā al-Tuṭīlī, Kharja A8 :
      مو الحبيب أنفرم ذ مو امار
      mū al-ḥabīb anfərmə ḏī mū amār
      My friend is ill with my love.
  3. during
    • c. 1100, Muhammad ibn ʕubada, Kharja A1 :
      ذي نخْتِ
      ḏī nuxti
      during the night

Notes

  • Corriente interprets ⟨ḏī⟩ and other spellings as representing a Mozarabic de.

References

  1. ^ Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, page 140
  2. ^ Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, pages 77-79
  3. ^ Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, page 29
  4. ^ Corriente, F. (1993) “Nueva propuesta de lectura de las xarajāt de la serie arabe con texto romance”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume LXXIII, number 1/2, pages 27, 31, 34